Navigating the Caregiver River

Navigating the Caregiver River: A Journey to Sustainable Caregiving is a caregiving guidebook that empowers family caregivers with strategies to navigate their caregiving journey with confidence. 

Navigating the Caregiver River is caregiver friendly because it addresses the challenges of caring for a family member in a way that is relatable, with humor and vulnerability. This guidebook helps caregivers prevent and recover from burnout, manage the turbulent emotions, reimagine and regain control using strategies that can be easily incorporated into a caregiving day. In addition, practical strategies to navigate transitions, have challenging conversations and more are discussed.

Navigating the Caregiver River is designed to inspire the caregiver to create a system of support that incorporates the strategies that will sustain them throughout the duration of the experience. 

We can imagine our caregiving journey is like being in a raft on a river. The river has calm sections, obstacles, rapids, and a few waterfalls. At times, we feel like we’ve been tossed out of the raft, and we are drowning. 

When we employ certain strategies to protect our well-being, manage the emotions and the stress, the river doesn’t change, but how we navigate the river changes. We step into the flow.