Holly Whittelsey Whiteside, Caregiver’s Coach
Coping with Emotions
- Learning from Emotions (Taking the nugget of learning and moving on)
- The Gift of Anger (How anger can point the way to what is missing)
- Managing Pre-grieving (Without getting stuck)
- Resistance / Acceptance (The alternating rhythm that moves you forward)
- What You Can’t Change, and What You Can (In others, in yourself)
- Choosing Your Battles (Staying mindful of your motivations & goals)
- Maintaining Your Boundaries (Giving without giving yourself away)
- Left brain/Right brain (Moving from Worry to Wonder)
Who have you been? (Past) Who will you be as a caregiver? (Future)
- Empowering Service vs. Enabling (diff. between serving, helping, & fixing)
- Charting Your Path (Setting priorities and goals for you & for your loved one)
- Maximizing Giving for Mutual Health (Caring, not too much, not too little)
- Know Thyself (Personality, Communication style, Coping strategies)
- Stocking Your Caregiver Toolbox (What will serve you now? Hinder you?)
- Be Here Now (Disengaging your history to be present to your client)
- Setting Your Commitments (Revising life commitments to serve you now)
Communication - Managing relations with your loved one, family, and staff
- Getting Off the Fence (Identifying what is stopping you & moving forward.)
- Prioritizing (Communications that need to happen & ones that don’t)
- The Anatomy of a Conversation (requests, promises, assertions)
- Action Language (The words you think or speak elicit results & experience)
- Listening, Speaking and Acting (out of commitment, not history)
- Achieving Alignment (using The Enneagram to understand personalities)
Personal Empowerment - Physical and Spiritual Well-being
- Reflection and prayer/meditation (Connecting with your Higher Self)
- Physical/psychic health
- Resilience (heart-led vs. head-led, allowing vs. willing)
- Balance Within (Staying centered in the midst of turmoil)
- Balance Without (consciously investing resources for a lifestyle that works)
- Knowing Your Top Ten (What you need in your life to be uplifted)
- Turning Off Midnight Monkey Mind (How to get back to sleep at 4AM)
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