Healing Through the Hero's Journey: Recent Episodes
Healing Through the Hero's Journey
Join me every week as I discuss topics that occur in our everyday lives that force to take a journey within. Applying the Hero's Journey to my own personal experience, I'll give you practical tips on how you can navigate the emotional ups and downs in our ever-changing world.
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In this episode, I tell about the inadvertent healing I received when I accompanied my mom to a Quan Yin temple in Chiang Mai. The healing crisis was so intense. Nevertheless, hope was definitely there for us as we listened to a channeler who channeled Quan Yin's mother for us.
In this new series for November, I continue my story of how I help my mom get acclimated to the senior residence that she is now living in. It is also a spa resort, which means that I can also stay there as well! As I hand over the reins to the caregiving staff, who are wonderful, I begin to finally relax after two and a half years of caring for my mom.
In this last episode of the series Caring for a Parent with Dementia, I explain how I travel with my mom to a care resort in Thailand. There we find the right conditions and services that we couldn't find in the U.S. The cost is also reasonable. Luckily, my mom loves the food, and the people are kind and gentle. For the moment, we continue to live here in Thailand and though our journey continues, at this point we can satisfactorily say that my mom and I have arrived at a good place where she gets the care she needs and I can go on living my life and not have to worry about her.
In this fourth episode, I explain the symptoms of middle stage dementia and when I knew it was time to have my mom live at the care home. However, the services provided were lower quality than what I had expected and I ended up taking my mom out of there.
In this episode, I explain how Covid 19's restrictions were especially difficult for my mom. It's clear that this time of being isolated from her friends and not being able to understand the sudden change in society caused a lot of stress and anxiety which led to the worsening of her condition.
Ultimately, I decided that the best situation for both her and me, was to have her live in a care facility.
In this second episode, I explain how my mom entered the early phase of dementia and was in denial about her condition. There are signs to look out for, and boundaries to keep in mind. Most important of all, as your mom or dad continues to be active, you must be alert on their behalf. The people around them won't always be helpful or even supportive.
This is the first of five 10 minute episodes where I talk about my experience of caring for my mother who has dementia.
I explain the journey from the moment she was diagnosed with the illness to present time where she is currently at a care facility with 24 hour caregivers.
This podcast is meant to provide insight and practical information for anyone who is providing care for an aging parent or wishes to be prepared for such a case in the future.