by MCH | Jul 10, 2024 | Community
At its best, advocacy for a mentally unwell loved one sparks positive change. Early collaboration between family members and healthcare providers can lead to pivotal breakthroughs in treatment plans, dramatically improving quality of life. But handled poorly,...
by MCH | Jul 4, 2024 | Courage
As a picture book author and caregiver, I’ve learned a crucial lesson: saying ‘yes’ to everyone else often means saying ‘no’ to myself and my work. Our time is finite. Each ‘yes’ to an external demand is a ‘no’ to...
by MCH | Jul 3, 2024 | Courage
Each day, I sit down to write, develop some part of the project, an evolving entity on the x-axis of time. Parallel to this runs my role as caregiver to my mother, her need for care a variable that defies prediction.The project of book making with the project of care....
by MCH | Jun 18, 2024 | Care, Community
As Caribbean brown women of working-class inheritance, we face the disproportionate duality of caregiving responsibilities for our elders and disabled family members while pursuing professional and personal ambitions. It is challenging. Sometimes...
by MCH | May 11, 2024 | Community
1% Better Every Day for a year. 1.01 (365) = 37.78 The effects of doing a lil bit consistently compounds over time. For example if you can just get 1% better each day you’ll end up with results that are nearly 37 times better after one year. Atomic Habits – by...
by MCH | May 6, 2024 | Courage
She is recovering from open general surgery less than 9 days ago She is tubed to drain fluid She is not as strong as she should be She is healing a wound But she is coming … A wilful spirit is unconquerable Against all odds She coming Jesus … You sure have a lot of...
