Hey there you, happy Friday! Time for a bonus public episode. Quick reminder that if you like these short episodes every Friday, there are longer episodes on Mondays on Patreon to help keep your mental health topped up, along with all my weekly hypnotherapy sessions.

I once worked out that there's the equivalent of about

100 hours of therapy content, always available, which for six pounds a month is a bit of a

bargain, if you ask me. And we can get to chat then as well, which is always nice. Someone asked

me on Patreon once, how can I balance looking after myself with looking after both

my children and my ageing parents? And I thought, ooh, that's a funny old sandwich being stuck in

the middle like that. And more and more of us are going to go through this, all because

children are stopping at home a little bit longer than they used to. People having kids a bit

later, we're living longer. And having both kids and parents to look after used to be called

the sandwich generation back in the 1980s. And back then, it was about people in

their 30s and 40s. And it's now more about people in their 50s. There was a study a couple of years

ago actually that showed that on average, a quarter of people aged 20 to 34 are still living with their parents. So we've got a lot of folk

in the mid-50s, maybe looking after, kind of, a 30-year-old at home, maybe two of them, also trying to

look after a pair of 80-year-old parents who aren't as nimble as they used to be. And on top of that,

we've got to look after ourselves as well, haven't we?ble as they used to be. And on top of that, we've got to look after

ourselves as well, haven't we? And it's tiring. It's exhausting. So how do we manage this?

Well, first off, you need to remember that you're not alone. Delegate if you have to. Instruct if you

have to, but you don't have to be doing everything, otherwise you'll end up dropping everything because you can't cope.

Can your children do more than you think, especially if they're adults still living at home?

And even if they're not, they can pull their weight if they're old enough.

If you've got siblings. But they're not local, so it their weight if they're old enough. If you've got siblings.

But they're not local, so it's always up to you to look after your parents if they need anything.

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