Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about caregiver burnout.

If you are someone who has aging or sick parents have a differently abled sibling or people in your life that need constant caretaking.

Perhaps you are a parent.

This episode is for you or if you know and have people in your life who are caretaking. One of the

things about being a black person is that we have a community of family and family usually

takes care of each other and we take care of our grandmamas. We take care of our mamas.

And it can be its own kind of overwhelming stress that leads

to burnout. And often if we're not doing it ourselves, perhaps we're seeing our parents taking

care of a grandparent or we see a sibling taking care of family members. It's really important to have

this conversation as one of the most beautiful things about the black community is how communal it is

and how together and loving we can be to each other, particularly our most vulnerable. And yet, being a caregiver has its distinct challenges.

If you are a black woman who is caregiving, I want to talk to you about what that looks like

when you're experiencing caregiver burnout and give you some tips on how to overcome it. There's been a lot

written about this space as particularly with COVID. More and more people are getting sick.

More and more people are requiring care. I don't know about you, but I've had at least

close to 15 members of my family have

had COVID and several of them have been hospitalized as a result. So we are now entering a phase

where caregiving happens more often. It happens unexpectedly and it can be extremely, extremely painful. Today we're going to talk

about some things I picked up from the Mayo Clinic. They've written a lot on this and I want to

make sure you come away with some good tips about how to manage caregiver stress so that you

don't tip into caregiver burnout. Before we get to how to manage caregiver stress so that you don't tip into caregiver burnout.

Before we get to how to manage it, we've got to talk about what it looks like.

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