"If you can learn to embrace that life's experiences are temporary, it may provide the fuel to face the challenge of caregiving." Mayo Clinic All of life is temporary. Impermanence is the only constant. Life is a process of letting go -- of relationships, jobs, people, our youth. If we can truly accept that all of life is impermanent, then caregiving might be easier. This job of caregiving will end with the death of our loved one. Then we will be done caregiving, but we will need to grieve the loss of the one for whom we provided care. With dementia, we have been grieving all along as the person loses more and more of who she or he was, but their death will be the ultimate loss. All of life is temporary. Let us accept that as good.
May 20, 2014
Life's Impermanence
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