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  • During Caregiving, They Defer While You Do It

    During Caregiving, They Defer While You Do It
    2026/04/06
    There's a word your family uses when they want to sound supportive.

    Defer.

    "We defer to you."

    "Whatever you think is best."

    "We know you've got it covered."

    That's not support. That's a load — handed to you, wrapped in a compliment.

    You can defer, too.This week on Caregiving Comforts, we're talking about how to hand something back and what to have ready if they don't show up.

    Resources
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Keep our support with you; download our Caring Our Way app from the App Store and Google Play store
    • Image by Arletys Graphic Design from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    6 分
  • During Caregiving, Where's the Love?

    During Caregiving, Where's the Love?
    2026/03/30
    During caregiving, the certainty we once felt — of being loved, appreciated, and supported — can quietly slip away. When the people in our lives struggle to show up, we begin to doubt what we once knew to be true.In this episode, we explore what happens to love during caregiving. Why it feels different. Why it feels harder. And why the source of love never actually changes — because the source is you.

    Resources
    • Join our community, CaringOurWay.com, to connect with others who get it.
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Image by Miroslav Kaclík from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    9 分
  • During Caregiving, Dealing with Mansplainers

    During Caregiving, Dealing with Mansplainers
    2026/03/23
    You know more than they do. You live this caregiving life every minute of every day — and yet, the mansplainers show up anyway, ready to tell you what you should do based on a headline they skimmed or a story they heard through someone's cousin's best friend's brother.In this episode, we talk about recognizing the red flags before the lecture begins and the three detours that can save your patience, your energy, and your faith in humanity. Because you know best — and it's okay to leave the mansplainers behind and keep going.

    Resources
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Image by Magnet.me from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    8 分
  • How Do We Cope with Our Painful Caregiving Days?

    How Do We Cope with Our Painful Caregiving Days?
    2026/03/16
    Twice the pain. That's what family caregivers carry — their own suffering and their caree's. In this episode, we sit with the moments when we really, really want caregiving to end, and we explore what that wish is really telling us. Because inside that longing is something healing. In our being, comes our healing.

    Resources
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Image by congerdesign from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    10 分
  • When Caregiving Saturates

    When Caregiving Saturates
    2026/03/09
    You are filled with the stuff of caregiving — the decisions, the schedules, the unexpected problems, the constant adjustments. You cannot take in any more. Yet more keeps coming. That's when saturation turns to drowning, and drowning turns to tears.

    In this episode, Denise offers a gentle reframe: rather than letting caregiving soak you, think about what you can soak in. Solitude. Music. Support from people who get it. And a quiet room where your tears have the space they need to flow.

    You can say, "I need a few." And when you take them, you give yourself a better tomorrow.

    Resources
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Read our Comforts in our community, Caring Our Way.
    • Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    6 分
  • During Caregiving, the Search for Completion

    During Caregiving, the Search for Completion
    2026/03/02
    Caregiving can feel like one long list of incompletes — the to-dos unfinished, the routines abandoned, the projects stalled. But what if life isn't grading us at all? In this episode, Denise explores what it means to be a beautiful work in progress, and why moving from one moment to the next is enough. You are not failing. You are not lacking. You are complete, just as you are.

    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    7 分
  • The Weariness from Sharing a Life with Caregiving

    The Weariness from Sharing a Life with Caregiving
    2026/02/23
    Caregiving asks you to share everything — your family's private details, your caree's fragile state, your needs, your fears. It can feel like you're an open book with no say in who reads it.In this episode, Denise explores the quiet exhaustion of constant sharing and the relief that comes from reclaiming your privacy. She offers practical ways to protect your quiet spaces, create boundaries around what you share and with whom, and find moments to simply be behind the stage — so you can connect with your life outside the life of caregiving.

    Resources
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    7 分
  • During Caregiving, Missing What's Gone

    During Caregiving, Missing What's Gone
    2026/02/16
    What happens when caregiving takes away the life you had — your schedule, your patience, your joy — and leaves guilt in its place? In this week's Caregiving Comfort, we explore how to grieve what's gone, release the guilt, and discover that what you've kept is enough to build something even sweeter.

    Resources
    • Read our Caregiving Comforts.
    • Purchase Denise's five-book Take Comfort series so you always have comfort with you.
    • Image by Gabi from Pixabay


    Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has canceled you.
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    5 分