Journaling for Caregivers and Those Caring for Aging Parents
Process the emotional weight of caregiving while maintaining your own identity and well-being
You watch someone you love decline. You make decisions no one should have to make. You balance their needs with your own life, your family, your job. The person you are caring for may not even recognize you anymore.
You feel guilty when you are not there. You feel resentful sometimes, then guilty about feeling resentful. You are grieving someone who is still alive. No one told you how hard this would be or how long it would last.
Journaling offers a space to process the complicated emotions. To grieve. To remember who they were. To acknowledge your own exhaustion without guilt. To find small moments of meaning amid the hardest work you have ever done.