How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Someone Else

It’s a quiet kind of unraveling, the way you stretch to meet someone else’s needs until you start misplacing your own. Caregiving is rarely glamorous and almost never convenient. It arrives in the form of a diagnosis, a slow decline, a phone call at 3 a.m. You pivot. You do what needs to be done. But you don’t have to disappear to do it. Keeping your ambitions alive while caregiving isn’t selfish, it’s preservation.

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