Take a break in your day and join us for our Lunch Break Book Club! Whether you are caregiving or looking for a way to connect with others, together we will explore timely topics while engaging with fellow community members. Sponsored by Hospice of the Piedmont and Senior Resources of Guilford, the Book Club focuses on caregivers although anyone in the community is invited to participate.
Event Details
Join us on Thursday, October 10 as we begin exploring our next book selection, We’re Stronger Than We Look: Insights & Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey by Jill Brown. The kickoff event will be a chance to meet other participants and take part in an introduction to the book. All participants will reconvene on Thursday, November 14 after reading the selection for a book club discussion. Attendance at the kickoff event is required to be part of the discussion.
We’re Stronger Than We Look – Kickoff
Thursday, October 10
12 noon
High Point Public Library | Morgan Community Room
901 N. Main Street, High Point
(refreshments will be provided)
Registration
Registration is required by completing the form below by Tuesday, October 8. If you have questions, please contact Ryan Biagini at 336-889-8446.
About the Book
We’re Stronger Than We Look: Insights & Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey
by Jill Brown
Caregiver, are you overwhelmed? Do you secretly (or not so secretly) have bouts of despair, bitterness, and even hopelessness? As a caregiver, you run the risk of disappearing. Your time goes overwhelmingly to the needs of your loved one. Relationships get strained, and challenges and anxieties are difficult to articulate. It’s easier to just keep your head down and do what must be done.
What’s more, you probably didn’t sign up for this role or train for it. And yet here you are, reliving the trauma that got you here, providing support you didn’t know you had in you to give, struggling with fatigue, making critical, life-altering decisions, and yearning for the community you had that has changed or disappeared.
As a caregiver, do you ever wonder:
- Where did everybody go?
- Why can’t I do a better job? Am I a complete failure?
- How can I keep up this level of care without exhausting myself?
Rich in stories, threaded with humor, and unflinchingly real, We’re Stronger than We Look is a safe place for you to process the life you’ve been given, to accept that it’s okay not to have it all together, and to be inspired about your caregiving role―even while recognizing the need to take care of yourself as well.