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TRUE CARE

30/11/2019

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​True care begins with self care. When we truly care for ourselves with regard to our physical and psychological well-being, our body is able to respond with more vitality and harmony. We are then able to share these qualities with others in our care, whether they are children, someone experiencing an illness, or a loved one at the end of life. 
True Care is a deep level of nurturing. It is an inner quality of knowing and connection with ourselves or with others for whom we are caring.
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“True care is felt through the love that is expressed . . . True care is love in activity and comes into every interaction we have with a person who is dying.” These words are written in our article by a death and dying writing team, and you can read it on the Death and Dying page Personal Sharings.

And from Ingrid, a member of our team: “True care is doing what is needed and not imposing - you can’t bring your own emotional baggage when caring for someone. 

True care is doing what is needed and not imposing on another. Hence, as a carer, it is not only important to know how to truly care for someone else but also how to truly care for yourself. We need to respect, regard and listen to our body, to be more loving and gentle with ourselves and more accepting and understanding, so that we can do the same for other people.”

We continue this month with our topic of True Care and would welcome more comments on how True Care is love in activity. This topic is one that should be very relevant and meaningful to us all as we age and either look after a loved one or need looking after ourself by another.

We invite you to share your comments with regard to your experience and understanding of True Care.  Simply click on the comments button below.​  
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Lynne Paull-McLeod
11/12/2019 09:37:08 am

I am generally great at caring for myself and being aware of caring for others however these past few weeks I've not been truly caring for myself and I can feel how awful that feels in my body.
My husband and I are in the 'moving house' process. I started out really well, making sure I ate well and rested, not driving myself to get the job done. However something happened a few weeks ago that worried me. Normally I would take the time to deal with it however because we are busy moving I didn't allow myself that space.
To counter my anxiousness I started pushing myself a bit, I wasn't taking the time to prepare proper meals and started going to bed later than normal. I've slowly unravelled over the last 3 weeks, (like the frog in the pot of cold water and turning up the heat slowly) until I had to admit to myself how heavy and yuk I was feeling. I was feeling quite scared with no real reason to feel that way.
I also had to admit that when I don't look after myself, I end up feeling stressed and it impacts on all those around me. It affects those I work with and live with. Everyone everywhere!!
So it's really important that no matter what I'm doing, caring for myself is paramount and particularly when I'm going through those more stressful situations like moving house. These are the times I need to be MORE aware of self care and not shelve it until I get through this next busy phase.
I make life difficult for myself & everyone around me when I don't deeply care for myself.

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Deidre Medbury
28/12/2019 10:52:27 am

How very true Lynne. We sometimes seem to have an on/off switch when it comes to caring and nurturing ourselves, when in fact we know that when we allow the space to care for ourselves it benefits not only ourself but those around us. Imagine how life would be if we deeply cared for ourself and each other as part of our consistent daily rhythm, how life would could be. Probably nowhere near as many health issues.

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Rosemary Liebe
17/3/2020 06:38:26 pm

I have been unwell recently and have been at home for some time which has made me even more aware how very important, as you say Deidre, our daily rhythm is. It seems so much easier to keep the rhythm steady when getting up and going to work each day and without my routine, I also, like you Lynne, have unravelled a bit, but being reminded that true care starts with the self I can see that this could actually be an opportunity to stay with myself and to return to loving choices without the daily routine that seems to make it easier. As I have another week off this gives me time to play with rhythm and routine outside of my usual routine and to see how loving and deeply caring I truly am with myself.

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