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Guest Post: No More Excuses

May 26, 2015 by Amy White Leave a Comment

Excuses

Sometime in my twenties as a young mother and new teacher, I heard the saying: “Excuses are like belly buttons, everybody’s got one…” I believe the rest of the saying was “…and they’re all full of crud” or something like that. But for my purposes as both a teacher and a mom, I didn’t need […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Caregivers, Guest Post, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregiver, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, guidance, healing, hope, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mental illness, parenting, self love, support, understanding, writing

Dear Caregiver: You are not Alone

May 20, 2015 by Amy White 4 Comments

waiting room

Dear Caregiver, I see your eyes and I know how lost you feel right now. I can imagine your thoughts and all of the emotions you are feeling; angry, sad, mad and blaming all at the same time. You are in shock. This child or loved one that you have tried so hard to love through all […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Caregivers, Healing, Mental Health General, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregiver, coaching, community, compassion, courage, Depression, expectations, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mental illness, parenting, self, self love, support, Twitter, understanding, writing

Dear Sons on Mother’s Day

May 10, 2015 by Amy White 6 Comments

mother's

For those of you who have been following my story, you know that the last couple of Mother’s Days have been exceptionally difficult for me due in great part to the choice of my adult children to not have much or any relationship with me.  When I finally decided to share this information with my blog […]

Filed Under: Caregivers, Healing, Parenting, Writing Tagged With: advice, advocacy, blame, care, caregiver, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, Depression, guidance, healing, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mom, Mother, parenting, self love, stigma, support, understanding

Guest Post: Clouds

May 3, 2015 by Amy White Leave a Comment

clouds

  Clouds What’s happened? The skies were blue, the roads were clear… And suddenly, it’s darkening. Down to one lane, slowing, darkness closing in. Where did the road go? Lost in a cloud, no guideposts beyond a faint blinking light ahead. Blindly inching forward, trusting that somehow we will get through, that we’ll be ok, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Caregivers, Guest Post, Mental Health General, Parenting Tagged With: advice, care, caregiver, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, courage, Fear, guidance, healing, hope, letting go, love, Navigation, parenting, self love, support, trust, understanding

Guest Post: Ask for Help

April 30, 2015 by Amy White Leave a Comment

Help

I am pleased to welcome back Susanne White, Caregiver Warrior, as today’s Guest Blogger! As Caregivers, it can often be difficult to ask for help and yet, trying to do it all on our own can have devastating affects on our mental and physical health and wellness. Without a strong support network, Caregivers can quickly find themselves […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Caregivers, Guest Post, Healing, Mental Health General Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregiver, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, courage, Fear, guidance, healing, help, hope, letting go, love, Mental illness, parenting, self, self love, support, understanding

Guest Post: Powerful Principles of Self Love

April 27, 2015 by Amy White 4 Comments

self love

A warm welcome to today’s Guest Blogger, Martha Tassinari, Founder and President of Holistic Recovery Solutions. Martha and I met through social media and realized almost immediately how aligned we are in the work that we do to support others.  From my own personal experience, as a Caregiver, I know first hand how powerful Self-love can be, both in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Caregivers, Guest Post, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregiver, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, Depression, Fear, guidance, healing, hope, letting go, love, Mental Health, self, self love, social networking, stigma, support, understanding

This Week: Mental Illness in the News

April 10, 2015 by Amy White 3 Comments

Imagine for a minute that you are all settled in for a cross-country flight and suddenly you become aware of some commotion in the back of the plane. You might not think anything of it; maybe you intentionally turn your music or movie up so that it is not disturbing you. However, you then notice […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, community, compassion, courage, crisis, Depression, Emergency Department, Fear, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, hospitalization, Mental Health, Mental illness, Navigation, stigma, support, trust, understanding

Caregivers Guest Post: Crisis in the Rearview

April 8, 2015 by Amy White Leave a Comment

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Crisis in the Rearview Guest Post, By Annie Slease “Writers write from what they know.” This has been my mantra for more than twenty years as a middle school English teacher, but I hadn’t ever put it to the test until my older son Jake suffered his first true mental health crisis. As a way of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Guest Post, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregivers, coaching, community, compassion, crisis, Depression, expectations, Fear, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, hospitalization, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mother, parenting, self, support, understanding, writing

Caregivers Guest Post: Gifts of Caregiving

April 5, 2015 by Amy White 1 Comment

Caregiving

While the “official” Caregivers in the Spotlight month has concluded, if you are on my newsletter distribution you already know that we are going to continue to spotlight caregivers on this blog and in our Facebook community going forward! I am so excited to be able to make this space for sharing of stories from […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Guest Post, Healing, Mental Health Support Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, caregiving, community, compassion, courage, elder care, Fear, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, letting go, love, Mother, Navigation, self love, social media, support, Twitter, understanding

Caregivers Guest Post: Self Care Strategies

March 31, 2015 by Amy White 6 Comments

Caregivers

I am excited and honored to end this Caregivers in the Spotlight month with a post from Kathleen Nelson Troyer. Kat and I met through a mutual friend not long after I relocated to the Bay Area. I admire her work, her path and her courage. I am grateful and humbled that Kat agreed to share […]

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I’m Amy White.

After my teenaged son's mental health crisis, I started offering parent & caregiver support services through my blog as well as coaching and advocacy work.

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