EP. 77: Caregiving, Caretaking, and Careserving

In a season or a lifetime of caring for someone else, it can be hard to care for yourself or know exactly what you need to do to take care of others. In this episode of God Hears Her, hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy share their own experiences with caregiving, and how they learned to care for themselves while also caring for others.

Notes and Quotes: 

• “So much of caregiving is about helping restore. And a lot of the way we keep giving it is through the reality that we hold hope.”
• “Caregiving is about sustaining life as much as you can.”
• “Let grief be your partner in it because there are real things to grieve.”
• Self-care Ideas and Tips:
  • Building Community: Developing a team for caretaking
  • Treating Yourself: Doing things you love
  • Developing boundaries
  • Viewing tasks as accomplishments
  • Relationships: Communicating your own needs too
• “When we find ourselves in the caregiving role, I think it’s also important to draw from the reality that we don’t do it alone and we don’t do it in and of ourselves.”
• “We are really to be a kind of conduit in our caregiving between God and those we love. But the only way we can do it is when we ourselves receive His care. When we let God be our caregiver.”

Verses: 

• “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 (NIV)

Links: 

• Read the article Who’s Caring for the Caregiver? - https://ourdailybread.org/whos-caring-for-the-caregiver/
• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
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• Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy