When you are caring for someone with a chronic illness, it is important to remember that we all have good and bad days. It is okay that sometimes you wake up and aren’t ready to face another day of caregiving. What is not okay is for you to let those feelings overwhelm you so that you can’t let them go and move on with your day. Find the motivation, even if it is just for the next hour, and get moving. Get up, get through breakfast and then set your goal for lunch. Keep setting small goals and before you know it you have made it through the entire day. Take a moment to be grateful for your success and remember, tomorrow will bring a new and hopefully better day.

I am having one of those days today, my second or third this week. It has been a time of multiple stressors that really shouldn’t have been. Little things that are happening and that are causing major upset. So, today I am going to try to let it all go and take a day to do something fun to see if I, we, can kick this lethargy that has set in. I have had enough and now it is time to move forward with a refreshed spirit. I am tired of feeling tired, today I am going to take some R&R and get beyond it.