The Given Years: A Reflective Journal for the Caregivers

Caregiving doesn't announce itself as a vocation. It arrives — through a diagnosis, a decline, a moment when someone you love needs more than you thought you could give. And then the years unfold: years of presence, of grief that has no name, of love expressed as labor. Years given over, and years given as gift.The Given Years is a reflective space for caregivers to examine what those years have asked of them: the relationship at the center of it, the weight it placed on everything else, the feelings that had no safe place to land, and what they will carry forward when the caregiving ends or changes. For those in the middle of it, and for those who have come through.For yourself, or for the caregiver in your life who has never been asked how they are.A Reflective Journal for Caregivers and the Caregiving Life Read more