Helping Caregivers Carry On
The Caregiver Coffeebreak with Breeda Miller is a soft spot to land for both professional and family caregivers. The Caregiver Coffeebreak provides inspiration, support, and information for caregivers through a breezy tip book, short engaging videos, a private online community and a series of videos and interviews with fascinating experts. Allow yourself a few minutes to relax, pour yourself a cuppa and Take a Break - Before You Break.
The Caregiver Coffeebreak is a supportive resource available to you - wherever you may be.
- The Videos - A series of engaging videos featuring stories, tips, and encouragement for caregivers.
- The Books - Two breezy tip books filled with clever ideas, helpful resources and distilled wisdom designed to support caregivers and others. A new book, Take a Break Before You Break designed for anyone who needs creative ideas or inspiration to actually take a break.
- Coloring Journal - a compact journal (5" x 7") with a page for stress-reducing coloring alongside lined pages for journaling. Take along to appointments and color while you wait and then take notes during the appointment. Comes with a petite set of coloring pencils.
- Facebook Page - The Caregiver Coffeebreak, curated to provide links to helpful articles, inspiring stories or funny memes and cartoons.
- The Newsletter - More like an occasional update with a fresh video or blog post. When you sign up for the email list (never shared or sold to others) you will also receive my free helpful downloads, PDFs featuring Chuckle Up - lists of funny movies and TV shows to watch, a Farm It Out sheet to help organize support, A Respite Care Info Sheet and a Caregiver Tool Kit to help with organization.
~Breeda
Today's Caregiver magazine recently awarded Take a Break Before You Break their 2021 Caregiver Friend Award.
Videos
Breeda's Blog
Asking the Big Question
As I emerged from the CoVid cocoon, I took a deep breath and asked myself a really big question. First of all, I was terribly grateful that our family was healthy and had not experienced the virus. So what was…
Permission Granted
I have been guilty of waiting for permission to do so many things in my life. Not from any one person, but from myself. I am a grown-ass woman who has made loads of decisions for others, cared for young…
Fresh February and a Soft Spot to Land
This is a stretch, I know it. I don’t typically think of February as a fresh anything. It’s smack dab in the depths of winter without the energy of January or the relief that March brings. Yet, here we are….
No Regrets. Creating a digital legacy.
The plastic tubs of photos were taunting me. They were everywhere and filled to the brim. Then there were the old photo albums with plastic sleeves holding white-bordered photos yellowing with age. Shoe boxes filled with important family documents, marriage…
Healthy Habits that Help
Healthy habits are not really my idea of a good time. I pictured celery sticks, treadmills, and balancing my checking account. Painful stuff. But I realized that my definition of Healthy Habits doesn’t have to be the same as those…
Wow! That’s a lot to do…
I get a small thrill every time I check off an item on my to-do list. In fact, I used to start my list with the task, write a to-do list, just so I could check it off right away….
Are You Out of Your Mind?
My idea of meditation has always been sitting near a body of water and listening to the waves lap the shore. That’s my bliss. I become calm, relaxed and clear-headed. So that’s my standard and I have found it difficult…
An Epic Christmas Gift, straight out of the basement
I tease my husband Jim and tell him I love him in spite of the fact that he is gift-impaired. He totally agrees. He is not a shopper and has rarely purchased a great gift all on his own. But…
The Twelve Calls of Christmas
My mom never learned to drive and the telephone was her lifeline to the outside world. Her family was far away in Ireland and she looked forward to her weekly phone calls. She would set herself up in her chair…