"Anyone unable to understand a god sees it as a devil," Joseph Campbell.
Continuing on the hero's journey as seen from the caregiver's position, it is helpful for me sometimes to consider that I am at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. It helps me to not take too seriously the miscommunications, the mishaps, the misadvenures. Just as Alice met very strange creatures, the talking White Rabbit with the watch, the Queen of Hearts who ordered 'off with her head', the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, mushrooms that could cause one to shrink and grow, etc., so we can consider that the misadventures that can accompany providing care for someone with dementia as vehicles for our own personal growth.
Once we have chosen to see these things as opportunities rather than obstacles, we are often offered help in surprising ways.
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