Top 10 Amazon Purchases to Help You Avoid Power Struggles when Your Spouse has Acquired a Disability
Your partner has acquired a disability like brain injury or Aphasia. It may feel like your daily planner should read: Watch partner struggle to do something independently. Suffer silently inside as you imagine the worst possible outcome. Also visualize how much easier...
3 Kinds of Fatigue that Spousal Caregivers Face (and How to Overcome Them)
There’s a common complaint among partners caring for a disabled partner: “I’m so exhausted” It frustrates my counseling clients who have a disabled spouse. They hate that they can’t rebound from this unshakable tiredness. At a time when they need to be at their...
3 Tools to Help you Survive the Holidays after Your Spouse Becomes Disabled
After your partner acquires a disability, routine becomes your friend. Out of the ordinary days can leave you and your spouse both feeling irritable and exhausted. Sadly, that’s true even on special days like Thanksgiving or other holidays. Many of my counseling...
How to Hire the Right Personal Care Aide for Your Disabled Spouse
Why hire a personal care aide? When I meet with spousal caregivers for therapy, they often describe being afraid of leaving their partner alone. I understand what scares them. When your spouse acquires a disability because of stroke, TBI, or other medical event, they...About the Mental Wellness + Disability Blog
Hi, I’m Rose Reif!
I offer counseling to disabled and neurodivergent people and their family members in my Cary, NC office.
Here on the Mental Wellness + Disability blog, I write posts intended to offer resources, useful strategies, and support to disabled and neurodivergent people and the people who love them.
