Caregiver Connection, group support for parents going above and beyond typical caregiving.
Join us, and make connections with others moving through a similar journey as we learn from each other in was that will benefit you and your child. In this group, members support, companion, problem-solve, and make space among others who understand the weight of this experience, while receiving the additional support of a licensed clinician.
Topics include:
- Medical trauma of the diagnosis process.
- Feelings of guilt and self-blame when you can’t fix it.
- Feelings of discomfort with diagnostic labels.
- Difficulty interacting with people that don’t understand your journey.
- The time strain of being a caregiver.
- Complexities of parenting the siblings of the medically fragile child.
- The difficulty in trying to carve out self-care time.
- Physical strain of caring for a child who is full assist.
- Feelings of exhaustion
- Decision-making when you are interacting with multiple medical specialists.
- Moments when emotions spill over.
- The difficulty of watching your child in pain.
- Feelings of sadness, anger.
- Watching the medically fragile child lose functioning.
- Not being able to understand what exactly is wrong.
- Fear of something becoming worse.
- The difficulty of watching your child be excluded from experiences.
