Month: June 2021

CAREGIVING: AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER

I started writing about our dementia journey on the day after Deena was diagnosed in June, 2017.  I’d never journaled before.  I’m not even sure what made me think to start on that day.  Maybe I thought that documenting the events of the journey would help me learn what worked and what didn’t work.  Maybe I knew somewhere deep…

ALZHEIMER’S AND SELF ESTEEM

Self-esteem is a measure of how you feel about yourself.  Do you feel strong, competent, confident?  Or weak, incapable, insecure?  Does your life build your self-esteem up?  Or tear it down? I think we all struggle with our feelings of self-esteem at some point in our lives.  Remember that awkward transitional phase of your life when you were in junior…