#304 - How to Rest When You’re Caring for Everyone Else
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Let’s take a minute to validate the complexity that is caregiving. It’s loving and fulfilling and something we’re probably honored to do. Most often, we’re caring for people we deeply love, who are desperately important to us, and when pressed, we’d likely say it’s an honor and privilege to care for that person or people.
But caregiving is also constant and often draining. It takes so much energy to be on for people pretty much all the time, especially when we’re tending to their needs more than our own.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, you are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:08.6 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:11.0 | Today is episode 304. |
| 0:13.1 | How to rest when you're caring for everyone else. |
| 0:16.5 | The irony of this episode is that on one of the days that I'm starting to put these words |
| 0:21.5 | together, not necessarily speaking them into the microphone because it's happened on |
| 0:25.4 | different times, I am home from work, even though I work from home. |
| 0:29.8 | The stomach buggy kid, I am caring for someone at a time when there's a lot looming ahead |
| 0:36.1 | of us, a trip to Disney for example, and very little time to rest. |
| 0:40.7 | And then other parts of this episode were written after I got the stomach bug myself |
| 0:46.2 | and I was cared for. |
| 0:48.2 | So I find the timing of this episode to be both ironic and quite lovely. |
| 0:53.1 | So let's start by naming what I mean by the following three things in the title. |
| 0:59.6 | Rest, caring, and everyone else. |
| 1:03.8 | There are so many kinds of caring and frequencies of that care. |
| 1:10.2 | Some of you are daily caregivers. |
| 1:12.5 | Your home with little kids, your home with big kids, your home school, you have a parent |
| 1:17.0 | living with you who needs daily care, you have a child with special needs that requires |
| 1:21.6 | a lot of daily care, maybe you're a working parent and you probably carry a lot of the |
| 1:27.7 | invisible labor of your home and life and family, even though you're not directly caring |
| 1:32.8 | for your people every day, or you're in a helping profession where you're like caring |
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