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The Welcome back to the Caregivers Journal podcast. I'm your co-host, Lance A. Slatton, along with my esteemed colleague, Christina Hardin-Wise.

I'll ask you if it's the better half or the lesser half of Cindy and Christina Hardin Weiss, but we'll leave that up to you.

I was going to say, I'll apologize to the audience because I think it would be better if Cindy were

here. She's definitely the better half of the two of the deal. So I apologize for a time. Yes. Well, Cindy's not with us today. She's under the weather. We hope she

feels better quickly. And we have a special guest today, a family caregiver, a multifaceted family

caregiver, Elizabeth Miller. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thanks for having me. Our pleasure, our pleasure.

Well, I'm going to start us off, Elizabeth, with viewers and listeners who may not be familiar with you and who you are. Why don't you share a little bit of your background and what you're doing and who you are? Yeah, I'm Elizabeth Miller. I live outside of Atlanta, Georgia. I am a former sandwich generation caregiver, so cared for both of my folks who are sadly no longer

with us and also was a support caregiver for my husband's mom nearby.

So we were simultaneously squeezed and working caregivers at that.

So really felt the pressures of that.

And now I'm, you know, caregiving comes in different seasons.

And my season now is I'm a sibling caregiver, sibling support caregiver for my older

brother, Tom, who was born with an intellectual disability and is on the autism spectrum.

You know, Elizabeth, a lot of times when you're in a caregiving journey and, you know, and is on the autism spectrum.

You know, Elizabeth, a lot of times when you're in a caregiving journey,

and, you know, like with your situation, you've taken a lot of journeys,

different roads, different circumstances.

We face struggles, we face, you know, wins, we face losses.

What were some of the biggest challenges you faced or are facing in your current or past caregiving role? Yeah, it's a good point is that they do change,

I think. Like at the time, you know, 10 years ago when we were, we called it our spiral year,

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