The Proactive Caregiver book will inspire caregivers surrounded by the darkness of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm with the light of acceptance and empowerment. It will encourage you to be a healthier caregiver and teach you to appreciate the role model you have become as a caregiver for your children, causing a cultural shift. This book is for caregivers of all ages, with loved ones living with Dementia or suspecting behavioral changes. Jessica shares her journey of caring for her mother, who lives with mixed Dementia, including FTD coupled with Bipolar Manic Depression Disorder. Behind their denial and avoidance, the Spirit waited patiently to begin transforming both of them. Throughout Jessica’s transformation, she discovered the reactive pitfalls many caregivers experience. With Spiritual guidance, Jessica’s transformation resulted in becoming The Proactive Caregiver. You, too, can learn to be proactive rather than reactive as you join her on this journey. Stop reacting to life and start creating a better quality of life while living guilt-free and shame-free. The Proactive Caregiver book will inform, educate, and encourage you to embrace the emotional challenges by allowing personal growth to transform and enrich your life. When your loved ones begin to lose time and memories or become combative, you must be prepared to step into their world with non-threatening and graceful manners. Your relationship with your loved one may prevent this from happening. So what do we do? How do we begin to dig into our lives to promote positive change and become healthier caregivers throughout the process? Jessica wasted so much energy trying to be strong for the family by hiding pain and suffering, which inevitably made her sick and depressed. Find out how to listen to the gentle whispers of guidance and become a Proactive Caregiver too.

The Proactive Caregiver book will inspire caregivers surrounded by the darkness of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm with the light of acceptance and empowerment. It will encourage you to be a healthier caregiver and teach you to appreciate the role model you have become as a caregiver for your children, causing a cultural shift. This book is for caregivers of all ages, with loved ones living with Dementia or suspecting behavioral changes. Jessica shares her journey of caring for her mother, who lives with mixed Dementia, including FTD coupled with Bipolar Manic Depression Disorder. Behind their denial and avoidance, the Spirit waited patiently to begin transforming both of them. Throughout Jessica's transformation, she discovered the reactive pitfalls many caregivers experience. With Spiritual guidance, Jessica's transformation resulted in becoming The Proactive Caregiver. You, too, can learn to be proactive rather than reactive as you join her on this journey. Stop reacting to life and start creating a better quality of life while living guilt-free and shame-free. The Proactive Caregiver book will inform, educate, and encourage you to embrace the emotional challenges by allowing personal growth to transform and enrich your life. When your loved ones begin to lose time and memories or become combative, you must be prepared to step into their world with non-threatening and graceful manners. Your relationship with your loved one may prevent this from happening. So what do we do? How do we begin to dig into our lives to promote positive change and become healthier caregivers throughout the process? Jessica wasted so much energy trying to be strong for the family by hiding pain and suffering, which inevitably made her sick and depressed. Find out how to listen to the gentle whispers of guidance and become a Proactive Caregiver too.

In 2016 Jessica Lizel Cannon stepped away from a career as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to become a full-time caregiver for her mother. Blogging became a way to help cope with the daily stresses as she navigated a new landscape of compliance, medical journals, and evolving limitations with activities of daily living. Researching about the brain, gut, and heart-led Jessica on a transformative path to help others understand actions that could lead them down a path towards living with dementia. The podcast gave Jessica a platform to share her story with others as a catapult towards creating a cultural shift. The more comfortable Jessica became with her role as caregiver, the more her soul purpose emerged to educate and empower others. In The Proactive Journey Volume 2, you can read about Stages of Dementia and challenges to diagnosis, fighting situational depression, and the evolving journey with Jessica and her Mother. You will also discover, as Jessica did, some valuable tips to help you invest, approach family dynamics, avoid several pitfalls caregivers experience with the broken industry of assisted living, among other topics.

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Provides a sensitive, practical approach to managing a child's severe noncompliance. temper outbursts and verbal or physical aggression at home and school. May also be useful for parents of children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders are master manipulators; Caretakers fall for them every time. This book helps Caretakers break the cycle and puts them on a new path of personal freedom, discovery, and self-awareness, through the use of real stories and practical suggestions from a seasoned therapist.

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and dilemmas of human living, interactions, and emotions. With a mix of empirical data, humor, and personal insight, each chapter introduces the reader to a significant topic or question, including self-worth, anxiety, depression, relationships, personal development, loss, and death. Along with exercises that clients and therapists can use in daily practice, chapters feature personal stories and case studies, interwoven throughout with the authors’ unique intergenerational perspectives. Compassionate, engaging writing is balanced with a straightforward presentation of research data and practical strategies to help address issues via psychological, behavioral, contemplative, and movement-oriented exercises. Readers will learn how to look deeply at themselves and society, and to apply what has been learned over decades of research and clinical experience to enrich their lives and the lives of others.