Letting Go of Unreasonable Expectations: Navigating the Progression of Dementia with Dignity and Grace

January 22, 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

Caregivers are expected to take on a lot of emotional and physical demands when caring for another person. There are some more well-known burdens of caregiving, and many people will promote the importance of respite and self-care for caregivers. There are also lesser talked about side effects of caregiving that I believe are even more […]

Affirmations to Honor Yourself as a Caregiver of Someone Living with Memory Loss

October 1, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Sometimes a barrier to providing care to a loved one with memory loss is no doubt the seemingly severed relationship that it causes. It creates so many questions within ourselves and many feelings of doubt and maybe even unworthiness. Too often I’ve heard the challenge of caregivers who are unable to surrender to memory loss […]

The Upside To Aging is Back!

November 16, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

Little did I know when I posted The Benefits and Techniques of Gentle Chair Yoga with Sara Starr from Happy Yoga TV on January 14, 2020, that it would be our last post for nearly TWO years! That was certainly not our intention. The end of 2019 was a busy one for us here at the Upside […]

Jackie, 68

May 30, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Originally posted on Age In America:
“My mother and father wanted the best for me. My father worked at Bethlehem Steel [at Sparrow’s Point]. He was a good provider. We also had a grocery story. My mother had me in piano lessons and I did piano recitals. I even went to Peabody Preparatory but I didn’t…