HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! This is a beautiful reflection by my friend and fellow caregiving author, the wonderful Julie Keon. I had the privilege of writing the foreword to Julie’s bestselling book for disability parents, “What I Would Tell You.” I love a new year. Always feels like a clean
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: A New Year Reflection for My Fellow Caregivers
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! This is a beautiful reflection by my friend and fellow caregiving author, the wonderful Julie Keon. I had the privilege of writing the foreword to Julie’s bestselling book for disability parents, “What I Would Tell You.” I love a new year. Always feels like a clean
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: FREE WEBINAR – Managing Caregiver Emotions When the Going Gets Tough
Join me this Wednesday evening the 29th at 7pm EST for a FREE WEBINAR at The Caregiver Network – details below.Managing Emotions When The Going Gets ToughJune 29, 2016 @ 7:00-8:30 pm (EST)REGISTER HERE+ Google Calendar + iCal ExportThis sessi…
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Join me this Wednesday evening the 29th at 7pm EST for a FREE WEBINAR at The Caregiver Network – details below.
Managing Emotions When The Going Gets Tough
This session is intended for Caregivers
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Donna Thomson
Donna Thomson cares for her adult son with severe disabilities and for her Mom who is still feisty at 93. She’s the author of The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving (The House of Anansi Press, 2014) and blogs regularly at The Caregivers’ Living Room (www.donnathomson.com). Donna is the Caregiving Advisor for Tyze Personal Networks, a free online tool designed to help caregivers coordinate a network of support.
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Julie Keon
Julie’s career path changed and evolved after becoming a mother herself to Meredith, in December 2003. While no longer a practicing birth doula, Julie is active in the death midwifery movement and now offers care to those at the end of life. She welcomed a new opportunity in 2012 when she became a licensed marriage officiant for the province of Ontario, and expanded her services after graduating as a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant® in early 2013 from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute with a focus on end-of-life and funeral celebrations. An avid writer, Julie began work on her first book, an extension of her essay, What I Would Tell You, in 2011. Her book was published and released to the world in May 2015 and has been very well received by not only parents and the professionals who work with families like hers but also by anyone who has found themselves in a caregiving role.
THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Are Bad Habits Your Way of Getting Respite?
Yesterday I was listening to an artist on the radio. I was in the car and I was travelling only a short distance, so I don’t even know who this artist is or what they produced, but I was captured by this, “I wanted to explore grief and how we eit…
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: What It Means to be a Mother… and a Daughter
Recently, I was chatting with my friend and fellow disability Mom, Julie Keon. I had the privilege of writing the foreword to Julie’s profoundly moving new book, What I Would Tell You – One Mother’s Adventure With Medical Fragility. I highly recommend Julie’s book to anyone with a complex child!
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