Ep 66 The Caregiving Journey: Lessons from a Two-Time Cancer Caregiver with Allison Wyman

Come and meet Allison.
Allison Wyman is a family caregiving attorney, consultant, and coach who has spent about 20 years personally and professionally in the caregiving space.

I'm a two-time cancer caregiver to my parents and both diagnoses happened at pivotal times in my personal and professional life. My Dad died in 2006 and my mom is cancer-free and enjoying time with her grandson. I have lived the spectrum.

Caregiving called me and I was not prepared. My family was not prepared. And we suffered emotionally and financially more than we had to during an already difficult time.

It didn't have to be that way. It didn't have to be that way. And I don't want this to happen to your family.

Here is some of what we chat about in this episode-

• Talks about how in the course in her life she is a work in progress
• She talks about how she helps others with caregiving with older parents or with kids- but knowing what to do to take care of others. 
• And how at some point in our lives we will be taking care of someone in our lives if we are lucky enough to have a loved one in our lives. 
• How she started as a lawyer and still practices today and shares how she became a two time cancer care giver that changed the way she was living her life.
• When you experience death in your life the question always comes up “Who are you?” And, “How are you going to live your life?”
•  What is it life when you try to re enter your life after caregiving- what that can look like.
• Really decided to give her job a year and checking in to see how it felt. She explains how she did that to see if she needed to change what she was doing for a living that she came back to after caregiving. 
• How powerful asking the right questions can be for you and to help others. As well as writing things down.
•  Really wants to set up women for success with empowering and guiding to have women make a choice in caregiving. To do or not to do with the education behind it to help with that decision.
•  Are you a main character in your story or are you a supporting character? She explains these roles and how they make or do not make decisions. 
• Caregiving is the hardest final exam that life gives you.

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