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We connect with authors of caregiving books to learn about their writing process and their caregiving experience.
25 JAN 2023 · Lacresha Davis, author of "Questions Now or Regrets Later," joins Denise to share the inspiration for her book as well as her process for creating the planner. To connect with Lacresha, visit https://www.notyourtypicalplanner.com.
25 MAY 2022 · Jennifer A. O’Brien, MSOD, joins Denise to discuss how her journal became her book, "The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal.”
About Jennifer
Jennifer O’Brien helps people talk about caregiving and end of life. She encourages compassionate, real conversation through her book, The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal, where she shares her story of caregiving through collages and writings.
After years of caring for people with serious illness as a physician, Jennifer’s husband, Bob Lehmberg, was diagnosed with a stage IV, metastatic cancer. But caregiving for the man who had made a 40-year career of caregiving as a physician was not easy. When Jennifer’s husband was diagnosed and later after he died, she turned to what had brought her comfort for years—art journaling. She documented and depicted the raw, honest, beautiful and exhausting reality of caregiving through collage, tableaus, notes and observations. She included much of the wisdom and perspective she learned from her husband in his years as a physician.
When the book was just a stack of pages, she took it to a friend who had just been diagnosed with a rare, advanced bladder cancer. After reading the book and knowing his own prognosis, he said, “You need to give this to my wife. She needs to understand what is ahead and feel supported as my caregiver.” After seeing how much that stack of pages helped them in his final months, Jennifer knew that what she had created might help others.
Having been a practice management consultant and educator to physicians for 30+ years, an executive administrator for two large medical practices, in administration at three major academic medical centers, the wife and now widow of a physician, Jennifer has a unique and thorough understanding of healthcare. Still, with all of this experience, caregiving for her dying husband was both the greatest honor and challenge of her life.
Now Jennifer works to help caregivers feel supported while caring for others and taking care of themselves. Connect with Jennifer at https://www.hospicedrswidow.com.
About Denise
Denise develops and leads training and leadership opportunities to help individuals transform a personal caregiving experience into a volunteer opportunity, a small business or a career change. More than 300 individuals from seven countries have enrolled in Denise’s training programs. Denise began supporting family caregivers in 1990, launching one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996. She sold the community in March 2020 to Ohio’s Hospice. She convened a National Caregiving Conference for four years (2016-2019), hosted a 36-hour Christmas chat for six years and celebrated creative side of family caregivers with an online Caregiving Art Show. Her research shined a light on family caregiver stress, the needs of working family caregivers and the daily challenges faced by family caregivers. She was a 2017 Influencer in Aging. Denise is the author of several books including "Healing Words: Soothing Strategies for Your Caregiving Fatigues," "The Caregiving Years, Navigating the Six Caregiving Stages and the Take Comfort series." Denise also helps her parents, who are 90 and 87. To download a template you can use to write your own caregiving story, visit https://join.caringourway.com/all-courses.
8 MAR 2022 · Dave Iverson joins Denise to discuss his book, "Winter Stars: An elderly mother, an aging son, and life’s final journey."
About Dave
During his broadcast journalism career, Dave Iverson produced over 20 documentary specials for PBS, including the Frontline film My Father, My Brother and Me (2009), and Capturing Grace (2015). He also hosted local NPR/PBS programs at KQED in San Francisco and served as a special correspondent to the PBS NewsHour.
Iverson was 56 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and a few years later he decided to do something he’d never imagined—he moved back home to care for his 95-year-old mother, Adelaide. Winter Stars is the story of the ten-year journey that followed. For anyone who’s considering taking on a caregiving role, Iverson’s memoir offers an intimate, unvarnished portrait of the challenges and changes that lie ahead.
Connect with Dave at www.daveiversonauthor.com.
About Denise
Denise develops and leads training and leadership opportunities to help individuals transform a personal caregiving experience into a volunteer opportunity, a small business or a career change. Denise launched several initiatives to ensure the voice and experiences of family caregiver receive the spotlight they deserve. She launched one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 and was the first to feature family caregiver blogs. She convened a National Caregiving Conference for four years (2016-2019), hosted a 36-hour Christmas chat for six years and celebrated creative side of family caregivers with an online Caregiving Art Show. Her research shined a light on family caregiver stress, the needs of working family caregivers and the daily challenges faced by family caregivers. She was a 2017 Influencer in Aging. Denise is the author of several books including "Healing Words: Soothing Strategies for Your Caregiving Fatigues," "The Caregiving Years, Navigating the Six Caregiving Stages and the Take Comfort series." Denise also helps her parents, who are 90 and 87. Learn more at https://www.careyearsacademy.com.
14 DEC 2021 · Katie Powner joined Denise to discuss her recently-released book, "A Flicker Light." During their conversation, Katie shared the inspiration for her book, how she organizes her writing and the reason she writes fiction.
About Katie
Katie Powner (www.katiepowner.com) is an award-winning author who lives in rural Montana where cows still outnumber people. She is a two-time OCW Cascade Award and ACFW First Impressions Award winner. Katie is a biological and adoptive mother of three and foster mother to many more. She and her husband have been in youth ministry for over a decade.
14 OCT 2021 · Willetha King Barnette joins Denise to discuss her book, The Caregiver’s Secrets. The book is an account of her 20+ year experience as a caregiver to her aging mother framed by powerful statistics and urgent policy issues. It emphasizes both the enormous scope of the demographic challenge facing America and the poignant details of coping with day-to-day caregiving responsibilities. The book aims to “open up” the experience of caregiving, a shadowy corner of family life with huge but largely unrecognized social and economic impacts. The narrative touches on many key challenges and dilemmas facing families and their aging loved ones, including difficult discussions about end of life decisions, the changing nature of medical services delivery, and the mind-numbing bureaucracies that dominate the landscape of an individual’s final years. The Caregiver’s Secrets includes tips and helpful advice for practicing caregivers as well as those who are destined to become caregivers. It spans the general and the particular, connecting the dots within a complex and hidden, but increasingly important sector of American life. For more information, please visit https://www.ifcaregiving.com
30 SEP 2021 · Norris Roberts joins Denise to discuss his book series, "The Still Here Series,” which includes “Mama Is Still Here” and “Daddy Is Still Here.” In his books, Norris shares his experiences caring for his parents while also raising his children.
About Norris
Norris is an accomplished information technology professional and educator living in the St. Louis area with his beautiful wife, jealous dog, and a very ugly student loan debt. He also is the author of “Technology Planning for School Leaders” published by Lambert Academic Publishing. To learn more and purchase his books, visit https://mamaisstillhere.com.
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Norris mentions the six caregiving stages, which you read about here: https://www.careyearsacademy.com/the-caregiving-years/
24 AUG 2021 · Donna and Zachary, authors of The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver, join Denise to discuss how their collaboration created a book which reflects their individual experiences and their collective wisdom.
Donna Thomson is the author of The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving. She is a consultant and speaker on issues relating to family caregiving, disability and aging. Donna is a patient and family advisor on health research and policy and she teaches family caregivers in Canada how to advocate for care in hospital and in the community. She blogs regularly at THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM (www.donnathomson.com).
Zachary White, PhD, is an award winning university professor who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses addressing topics such as provider-patient communication, caregiver communication, the patient experience, health and illness narratives, digital health literacy, social support and disclosure, and sense making amidst life transitions. As the founder of the caregiver blog and resource “The Unprepared Caregiver” (www.unpreparedcaregiver.com), his original writing voice mixes first-hand experiences, communication expertise, and cultural analysis featuring a care-centered point of view.
27 JUL 2021 · Beverly Nance shares the mission behind her book, Take Care, which is to ensure parents who care for a child on the autism spectrum receive the support they deserve.
About Beverly
Beverly is a Bestselling Author, Public Speaker, Civic Leader, Certified Caregiving Consultant, Certified Caregiving Educator and Professional Advocate. As the mother of a daughter with autism who once struggled in life as a caregiver, balancing a career, business and self-care, Nance now utilizes her experiences to empower and teach others on their caregiving journey. She has a passion for using her life lessons and gifts to inspire caregivers around the world to “Take Care” and live a fulfilled life. A nationally-recognized entrepreneur, Beverly is the founder and CEO of Puzzlebilities® a custom and retail jigsaw puzzle company, author of Take Care, Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others, co-author of Driven Success and creator of TakeCareTime.com a website for caregivers.
For more information about Beverly, visit https://takecaretime.com.
12 JUL 2021 · Rebecca Warner joins Denise to discuss working with a publisher and the one piece of advice she offers to anyone wanting to publish a book.
About Rebecca
Following a successful career in banking, Rebecca Warner pursued her dream of writing with the publication of her first book, the two-time award-winning political thriller, Moral Infidelity. Her follow-up, Doubling Back To Love, was included in the popular romantic anthology, Peace, Love and Romance. Her third book, He’s Just A Man, offers self-help advice for women seeking healthy relationships.
Rebecca blogged for HuffPost for two years while working on two new novels. One of them, My Dad My Dog, was published by Black Rose Writing in November, 2020. Rebecca drew upon her 14 active years of being a Health Care Surrogate for her parents to write a heartwarming story about a journey that an Alzheimer’s-afflicted man and an elderly dog are destined to take together.
Rebecca and her husband, Jason, live in Asheville with their lively stumpy-tailed cattle dog, Chance. Please visit her website at http://www.rebeccajwarner.com
8 JUL 2021 · Bruce and Mary Join Denise to discuss their inspiration for their books, the writing process and their perspectives on the kind of books family caregivers want.
Bruce McIntyre serves as the Executive Director of the Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma. As the author of Thrive Anyway, Parkinson Positive, Graceful Transitions, and Resilient Life, Bruce shares his expert guidance and warm humor with thousands of people each year. As a caregiver for his wife for the past 15 years, Bruce understands the world of chronic illness and caregiving. Bruce has keynoted such events as the 2016 National Caregiving Conference in Chicago, the 2019 Regional Caregiving Conference Southwest and spoken or keynoted at over 100 caregiving, disease organization, church, and inspirational gatherings since 2008. Bruce was also one of the first five recipients of the Visionary Caregiver Award in 2018. He has led the Caregiver Fundamentals Project in Oklahoma City and served caregivers as a business, church, and non-profit leader. Bruce is the author “Thrive Anyway,” “Parkinson Positive,” “Graceful Transitions” and “Resilient Life.” Visit https://brucemcintyre.com to learn more.
Mary Tutterow is a caregiver, coach and author. She and her husband, Winn, have two adult children. Their daughter, Mary Addison, has cognitive and physical challenges. Their family also cared for Winn's mom through cancer. Mary leads caregiver groups at Seacoast Church, as well as workshops, webinars and retreats. Mary is the author of "The Heart of the Caregiver" and "The Peaceful Caregiver." Visit https://theheartofthecaregiver.com to learn more.
We connect with authors of caregiving books to learn about their writing process and their caregiving experience.
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