Speak Your Truth with Allison Breininger - Caregiver Spotlight
Happy Healthy Caregiver
Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Allison Breininger has an MA in Education and spent twenty years in the realm of education. At 31, she became a caregiver for her husband, Sean, when he was diagnosed with the rare genetic disease Fanconi Anemia. She has been by his side through countless treatments and experienced firsthand that caregivers are in what she calls ‘the negative space’: vital yet overlooked and unsupported.
In this episode, Allison shares why caregivers are part of the story and need to be recognized, why the oxygen mask analogy falls short, what tried and true tools help her in her caregiving life, and why ‘brightsiding’ is detrimental for care advocacy and caregiver wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Whole Care Network. |
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| 0:52.7 | And so I am part of the story and I need care and respite and support from what I experienced yesterday as well. |
| 1:00.7 | And so it's not just like, okay, he's the one with the bandage. |
| 1:04.9 | But I also went through a really big thing yesterday and many, many, many other days of my caregiving life. |
| 1:10.3 | And so therefore, I am part of the story and I also need support and care. |
| 1:16.9 | Caring for aging parents or other loved ones while working, raising children, and trying to |
| 1:21.8 | live your own life, wondering how to find the time for your personal health and happiness? |
| 1:26.3 | Well, you're in the right place. |
| 1:27.9 | Welcome to the Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast to show where real family caregivers |
| 1:33.0 | share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others. Now here's your host, |
| 1:37.6 | family caregiver, and certified caregiving consultant, Elizabeth Miller. |
| 1:44.2 | Hello, everyone. Thanks for tuning to the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, which is part |
| 1:48.5 | of the Whole Care Network. If this is your first time listening, welcome. This is a show produced |
| 1:53.1 | biweekly to help family caregivers integrate self-care and caregiving into their lives. |
| 1:58.4 | We are also part of the Whole Care Network streaming radio |
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