Different Kind of Special Blog

January has a way of surfacing a familiar tug-of-war.

On one side: goals, growth, fresh starts, the quiet hope that this might be the year things feel a little lighter.
On the other: a desire to slow down, be present, and stop treating life like a never-ending self-improvement project.

And if you’re a caregiver, there’s a third voice in the room—practical, relentless, and unimpressed by your intentions:

Caregiving takes time.
A lot of it.

Appointments. Advocacy. Paperwork. Insurance calls. C...

It all started with a FitBit. This might be the best gift I’ve ever received because it kicked off a self-care practice of taking walks at least four or five days a week.

Initially, the motivation for taking long walks in the morning was to reach 10,000 steps so I would get a star in my FitBit progress tracker for that day. But, as the miles added up, I realized that my long walks were essential to both my physical and mental health.

When I started walking, I didn’t use earbuds because I was t...