Courage

"To embark on this glorious challenge, you must leave the known and jump away from the familiar, the status quo, to discover who you truly are and can be." Judith Wright

It is true that to become fully who we are we must leave the familiar.  We all know people who stay in very difficult situations and we may wonder why they stay -- I would suggest that people stay because it is familiar.  It takes courage to leave unsatisfying relationships and situations, but -- to become who we are capable of being -- leave we must, when we discern that is what is the right thing to do.  And, what does this have to do with caregiving?  We may not be able -- or even want -- to leave the caregiving situation, but I think that within that caregiving we need to find ways to leave the known.  Perhaps that is in providing the caregiving in the way that best suits you -- and not all those people who think they know how you should do it.