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Navigating the

New Normal

Making Room

for the River

Caregivers can learn from Amsterdam

Amsterdam's Change in Perspective Saved their Country

Navigating the New Normal is an evolving challenge. But the best way I can explain it is by giving you an example that we can all learn from. In the end, it’s all about perspective.

With the extreme natural disasters like Sandy, Katrina and now Helene and Milton starting to happen with more regularity, the same mistakes have been made over and over.  If you listen to interviews of people giving the reasons why they did not leave before the hurricane hit, they say……..I don’t believe it will be that bad, or we’ll figure it out. With every hurricane we keep building back in the same place. People keep dying and vast amounts of property destroyed.

In many ways the caregiver crisis is not unlike a natural disaster.

With over 64 million caregivers expected to double by 2030, we are not planning ahead for one of the most important events in our life. Why?

According to a Harvard study, denial can be the biggest obstacle to preparing in advance and doing the things necessary to “weather the storm”. But the Harvard study is not about natural disasters, it is an important finding about family caregiving that we should pay attention to. 

The truth is that anyone can become a caregiver overnight unexpectedly, with one phone call!

Although we need to understand what to do, emotions can keep us from being able to actually do it. We all resist being proactive, fearing the dramatic impact caregiving will have on our daily lives while in denial that we, in fact, will ultimately lose someone we love.

I’m here to share my own caregiving Katrina moment with you so that you can learn from what I experienced. It is my mission, just like Henri, to preach the gospel of preparedness so that you can change the experience of caregiving from a potential disaster into one of life’s most special moments in time. 


Don’t be a victim! Embrace the challenge and allow yourself to be transformed by it. Making room for the river can change your life in ways you could never expect.


Accept the new normal and

              … make room for the river.

I am your Henri Ovink!

                                       

                                                                                                

                                                                                                

                                                                                                

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Navigating the

New Normal

Making Room

for the River

Caregivers can learn from Amsterdam

Amsterdam's Change in Perspective Saved their Country

Navigating the New Normal is an evolving challenge. But the best way I can explain it is by giving you an example that we can all learn from. In the end, it’s all about perspective.

With the extreme natural disasters like Sandy, Katrina and now Helene and Milton starting to happen with more regularity, the same mistakes have been made over and over.  If you listen to interviews of people giving the reasons why they did not leave before the hurricane hit, they say……..I don’t believe it will be that bad, or we’ll figure it out. With every hurricane we keep building back in the same place. People keep dying and vast amounts of property destroyed.

In many ways the caregiver crisis is not unlike a natural disaster.

With over 64 million caregivers expected to double by 2030, we are not planning ahead for one of the most important events in our life. Why?

According to a Harvard study, denial can be the biggest obstacle to preparing in advance and doing the things necessary to “weather the storm”. But the Harvard study is not about natural disasters, it is an important finding about family caregiving that we should pay attention to. 

The truth is that anyone can become a caregiver overnight unexpectedly, with one phone call!

Although we need to understand what to do, emotions can keep us from being able to actually do it. We all resist being proactive, fearing the dramatic impact caregiving will have on our daily lives while in denial that we, in fact, will ultimately lose someone we love.

I’m here to share my own caregiving Katrina moment with you so that you can learn from what I experienced. It is my mission, just like Henri, to preach the gospel of preparedness so that you can change the experience of caregiving from a potential disaster into one of life’s most special moments in time. 


Don’t be a victim! Embrace the challenge and allow yourself to be transformed by it. Making room for the river can change your life in ways you could never expect.


Accept the new normal and

              … make room for the river.

I am your Henri Ovink!

                                       

                                                                                                

                                                                                                

                                                                                                

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