Happy Healthy Caregiver: An interview with Elizabeth Miller

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She is a a caregiver had a a mom of two and does all the above that she is right in the sweet spot of everything were about on the show and we are thrilled she's not in Marietta, Georgia and my CD that I put out the didn't discuss. Also, the caregiver did specifically to help calm a caregivers heart and this will mean something to you.

I tested it on myself during rush hour on 285 and deceived it with Karen Rotary, listen, tell us a little bit about your journey as a caregiver that I want to get into what you do in the conference is the stuff and how folks can get take advantage of the things that you're doing the back us up a little bit to how you got into this because the is not like you set out to have a life plan of being a caregiver happened like a great and erratic people at wildland fly and I went that blend like libraries and on for years. My parents had terminal art are chronic help and I'm tantamount able grantor, and in 2014 is landing at that time might have been. I felt really made me very clear and it generates energy and aging parents and his mom had lung cancer. Their health issues, and I had parked needs.

My mom had PD content playback and long story short, both my husband and I laugh and parent in 2014.

Content lot grandparent and in our working full time and we were generally not a thing you gotta be a better way to do that and I got about a lot of lessons learned.

You are you helping other people see you will you launch this whole thing about happy, healthy caregiver to little bit about the preface.

Is there a lot of people that have a caregiving stores with. There's too many of us there are 65 million. I like to bring people on the show here that are not only dealing with the experience and have the experience that she has with which which is plenty, but then they turned it into some kind of action step of putting back into the lives of other caregivers just like they flirted themselves and I like to bring people who bring these unique perspectives and so forth less well. Elizabeth on the show. Very grateful for her insights for her journey what she could offer because it's it's this this is how we all learned. So tell us a little bit about the happy healthy caregiver. Why now and what my letter in my mind for everything that they ended up having a chronic element that working at happened like twice that they had made over the years and my parents were my mom fell, I might add half meeting parent and then semi-trot, you might really myself and my five brothers and the third and their own health and happiness really got sacrificed that part of that. So I went at it first hand between my parents and my mother-in-law what can happen when you're not taking care of your own health and happiness and I could see myself going down that path. When my parents were second 2014 really thought my mom and pop up recovering and then my dad was really my mom primary caregiver and I think it cannot happen a lot. He ended up getting very healthy Arabic chair and within a month away that really just really cut out for a crazy world when and road trips back and forth from Atlanta to Florida, where my folks were lot of thought going on. That's right thing up like what time this is the definition of insanity right thinking over and over again to get different results, I just thought you know one way for me to be accountable where you can put it out there for the website. I really started to grandma's. I think my account no, something happy, healthy caregiver variation by hundred days of healthy and everyday I just put something out there and I and take a little fat every day when something healthy and then it turned into the blogging podcast and get on of all kinds in anything but it helped keep me accountable while helping others and I think you know what lots of lots of weapons and there you have learned how to let go of things and on trying to just stay energized while I'm leaving my mom here in the Atlanta area and her caregiver and it was a lot a lot to juggle kids in full-time job and fill it down and along the caregiving portal. I sister had primary caregiving abilities that we share the carrier and my family to think this is you start running your journalism major and I know that when you went to journalism school.

This was not on your your list of things that you were going to be writing about.

But I'm so grateful that there is a training experience and in a very prolific writer that you have taken upon yourself to use that skill set. I think the caregiving taps into everything that we bring to the table. If we allow what we can use things that skills and abilities we have in training in ways we didn't expected and yours is an important voice to do this and so the sick, that's fascinating that you are able to do that in turn that into a better way to communicate you and and the other thing is is that, as you've done this and you should keep yourself accountable less. Why do the show.

You know the secret most people I guess in the much of Sycamore are preaching to myself here. I got here these things over and over and over again.

It's not a one and done and so I need to hear what you've learned. I need to hear what colors of learning what they're going through weekly belts things altogether. So I think that's been one more rewarding things is is is we engage in community have you found that to be the same thing with your community know that you built around the happy healthy caregiver created I wanted and I was craving an arm for no doubt how I and I went that person that did not connect to the resources and really current encouraged our healthcare professionals out there to really educate people that this is what you're called and there are shows like Dorothy Aaron resources and websites like mine that we can help healthy caregiver is an and really just on accountable for that funny world went to journalism that I love. I love studying journalism did want to work the next effect in Pres. George and all of that. I got IP for many years and then have now realized how fine and amazing and how much I learned from other people through my podcast like when I'm spotlighting on a caregiver spotlight epithet and sharing about what's working for people and how their able to integrate little baby steps of healthcare in their day and I'm learning things every day and I'm trying anything and that is a journey and I wanted that and next and crannies and self-care to cheer each other on this.

The whole point is that we all cheer each other all because there's it's hard enough you caregiver it's it's it's much harder try to do it alone. And so it's great to have your voice 1/3 speaking of which, cheer each other on tell us about the conference. I am certified caregiving consultant. Caregiving.com that will help other caregiver and are fairly leader caregiving.com created a contract Caregiving Contract and Are for One Will Be November and Can Either Go to Chicago and I Attend in Person or They Can Look Thank You, the Virtual Track That Credible for Free. There's Lots of Opportunities Were Always Looking for Wonderful Font Parents and Exhibitors and Volunteers, and There's an Actual Call for Presenters Opened Now from March of One of Submit Something You Know Maybe That Everything That Any Public Speaking before Because What Really Unique about This Conference Is That the Majority of the Speakers Are Current or Former Family Caregiver and We Really Feel like We Are the Experts Right in That Field. So It's a Great Opportunity for People like You That A Lot Of Us Have Turned Our Variances into Business and and Ways to Help Other Caregivers and Making Really Athletic Team like I Would Go to First Year That Will Be Depressing, but It's Not like He Said Lastly Cry Depressing. It Is Not Depressing and That's a Think This Is Supposed Love People Even about the Show Is That They Thought Was All to Be about Nursing Homes or Think It Really Is That What You Think Is Because There's a Whole Lot More to Assist Caregivers and and We'd like to Sit in the Leslie Would We Get. We Keep a Sense of Humor and so Forth above Will Will You Will Shut up Somebody Was Posting on Watching a Facebook.

Love, Nancy Said She's Right There with You Elizabeth. So of You Resonating A Lot with Folks Even Right Now and That I Appreciate That. Let Me Know If I Would People Go to the Conference. What's the Best Place to Do to the Go to Your Site to Connect to It or What I Did A Lot Caregiving.com/National Caregiving Conference 19 and You'll Find It on Their Post about This on Her Facebook Page and Will Put the Podcast about This Later As Will the Link to It within the Podcast so People Could Father Because I Think It's Important. Do I Think It Would Have Denise on Here Here in the Next Several Months to Talk about It and Think She Would Want Me to Look at Coming up and Speak into It or Be the Presenter There so We'll Work It over to Push Pretty Hard Because We Want Folks to Know That There Is a Community out There for Them Where They Can Go to and Connect with Them and Participate in Get Healthier Real Quick and the Just the Last Two Segments We Have. If You Could Say Something to Your Younger Self Because A Lot Of Women That Are Just Now Stepping into This Place Where You Wore, What Would You Say No Let Go Earlier I Control Everything That There's A Lot Of People That Are Available to Help You and I Would Also Encourage Myself Dinner Rather Than Later. More Vulnerable I Have Found My Writing in My Thinking That the More Transparent I Am, the More I Have Myself More Clearly and I Think, and Then to Try Anything. Now I've I've Turned over like Rocks Essential Oils. Chiropractic Care Means You New Workout Ideas Online Bible Studies. You Know, Whenever Someone Says Hey This Might Work for You and Mike Let Me Try That Now I Would Encourage My Anger Felt Really Dive in the Inner on Her All about the Fun Happy Healthy Caregiver.com. If People Are Interested in Learning More.

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Thank You. It's Just a Real Treat to Have You Show Happy Healthy Caregiver.com Happy, Healthy, Caregiver.com Elizabeth Miller, Have You Back on What Had to Be Some of Them Took This Conference.

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