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Hello everyone. Welcome to I Choose Me. Okay, so caregiving can be overwhelming, but you don't have to do it alone.

In today's special I Choose Me episode,

Debbie Matinopoulos is going to share the tools and support systems and the mindset shifts

that can make all the difference. So happy to have you with us again. Thank you so much.

Our episode that we did a couple of days ago was very emotional. Yeah. We left it all there. But right now, I just want to deliver people some information.

And you are the perfect person to lay that out for us. So can we just jump right in?

Yes. Thank you so much. How can someone prepare emotionally and logistically before stepping in to the role of caregiver?

Okay. Emotionally and logistically, I think emotionally you need to be very, be prepared about what you're about to do and be completely honest, rudely honest with yourself

of how it's all going to go down.

And that means the good, the bad and the ugly, because it's going to be hard.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it at all.

It's going to be very difficult.

The more you care about someone, the more difficult it is to becoat it at all. It's going to be very difficult. The more you care about someone,

the more difficult it is to be their caregiver. Yeah. So be prepared for that. Just know.

Just know that what your thought. Yeah, give it some thought and understand this is what you're

stepping into. Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself mentally with that. I had to do that mentally and emotionally.

I'd always prepare myself. Even when I'd like go out for a minute and come back, I'd be like,

okay, I'm not to step back into the house. I need to, I need to be strong for this person because this

person cannot be strong for themselves. That's number one. Number two, I think we talked about this

in the last episode as well, you have to be an advocate for that person

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