mental health resources for caregivers

Putting on Your Life Jacket: Self-care for Caregivers workshop is designed to help you take care of yourself and manage the emotional rollercoaster commonly associated with parenting a child with a chronic medical condition. You’ll learn how Lisa equipped herself with the critical tools needed to rest, recharge, and practice self-care as a parent to two children with chronic disease. Specifically, this session will help you:

– develop an increased understanding of your emotions
– understand the cycle of grief and chronic sorrow
– recognize clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety that deserve professional help
– identify ways to cope with difficult feelings and stress
– explore wellness/self-care strategies that work best for you

In advance of this session, you can prepare by reading pages 11-17 of Tools & Tips for Coping with a Diagnosis. And after watching the session, we’re sure you will walk away with a lighter step and immediately applicable, practical, and highly effective parenting tools specific to caring for children/teens with chronic disease.

About Lisa Greene, MA CFLE

Lisa is the proud Mom to two children with chronic disease. Needing information about both special needs and general parenting challenges, she started digging into the many different parenting resources and experienced “information overload” along with conflicting, and un-researched, information about how to be an effective parent.

This journey led to Lisa becoming a certified Parent Coach with ACPI, a certified Positive Discipline Educator, and completing Love and Logic’s facilitator training program. For formal education, Lisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Central Washington University and completed her Master’s degree in Family Life Education at Concordia University in December 2013. In addition to helping parents raise healthy, happy families, she is the author of four books and an international public speaker. Lisa touches the lives of hundreds of families each year with her teachings and message of hope. Read more about Lisa’s journey at cassieandfriends.ca/stories/lisagreen.

when is it time to get more help?

• If symptoms of anxiety/depression are significantly interfering with your or your child/teen’s functioning at home, school, or with peers
• If after learning and implementing strategies your child/teen is still suffering
• If anxiety, depression, or behaviour concerns are interfering with medical needs

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