Forever Caregiving with Kelley Coleman
Happy Healthy Caregiver
Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Kelley Coleman is a California mom to two amazing boys and full-time caregiver for her son with multiple disabilities. She is a feature film development executive turned author and advocate for parent caregivers and individuals with disabilities. Her book draws upon over a decade of experience parenting a child with multiple disabilities
In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast we talk about why Kelley treats caregiving like a job, the advantages of not having a formal diagnosis for her son, how to secure the right insurance case manager, the unexpected gifts from their son’s service dog, and how Kelley mitigates sleep deprivation and strives to make caregiving sustainable.
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| 0:52.9 | We have to be able to be practical and separate our emotions a little bit. |
| 0:57.7 | Otherwise, the tasks and the things become so overwhelming. |
| 1:03.2 | And viewing caregiving as a job allows you to do all these things. |
| 1:10.9 | Caring for aging parents or other loved ones while working, raising children, and trying to live your own life, wondering how to find the time for your personal health and happiness? |
| 1:20.3 | Well, you're in the right place. |
| 1:21.9 | Welcome to the Happy, Healthy Caregiver Podcast, to show where real family caregivers share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others. |
| 1:30.4 | Now here's your host, Family Caregiver and Certified Caregiving Consultant, Elizabeth Miller. |
| 1:39.0 | Hello, everyone. Thanks for tuning in to the Happy Healthy Care Podcast, which is part of the Whole Care Network. |
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| 1:48.4 | This is a show produced every other week to help family caregivers integrate self-care and caregiving into their lives. |
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