Help For Overwhelmed Caregivers: Simple 10-Second Stress Solutions for Family Caregivers - Softcover

Rickard, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947745646 ISBN 13: 9781947745643

Verlag: Well YOUniversity Publications, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You're Not Failing. You're Overflowing.

Discover the simple, clinically proven system that helps caregivers release stress before it takes over their life.

You do everything right.

You show up. You keep going. You put everyone else first.

And still — you're exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix. Snapping at people you love. Wondering how much longer you can keep doing this.

You've been told this is caregiver burnout. It's not.

Carol Rickard was 14 years old when her father died and her mother became critically ill. Overnight, she became a caregiver — for her mother, and for her younger brother. No one taught her how to handle the grief, the anger, or the overwhelm. She just grabbed at whatever got her through the day.

She came back to be a caregiver for her mother again in her late 20s — and still didn't have a single healthy coping tool.

It wasn't until years later — as a licensed clinical social worker nearly losing her own dream career to stress-induced migraines — that everything clicked.

Stress isn't a feeling you manage. It's a biological loop — and if it never gets released, it doesn't disappear. It accumulates. Until it overflows.

That's not failure. That's physics.

This is not just Carol's personal story. It's her clinical life's work.

Over 34 years, Carol has worked directly with thousands of caregivers — helping them move from surviving to thriving using the same Stress SMARTER System™ she developed from her own experience and refined through decades of clinical practice. In Help For Overwhelmed Caregivers, she brings both together: the lived experience of a caregiver, and the proven framework of a clinician who has watched this system work again and again.

Inside this book you'll discover:

• Why the tools you've been using only turn off the stress "faucet" — and never drain what's already built up
• The difference between "survival tools" that numb you and "life tools" that actually help
• How to tell the difference between caring for someone and losing yourself while doing it
• A simple way to check your stress level before you hit overflow — using nothing but a number or a color
• The 10-second RESET Breath you can use anywhere, anytime, without anyone noticing
• The Scribble Dump — a release tool that works even when you don't have words for what you're feeling
• How to protect your own capacity with the same commitment you give to everyone else

Carol has taught this system to thousands of caregivers, nurses, and helping professionals across the country — and it works because it's built on both real experience and real clinical results.

You don't have to choose between loving someone fully and losing yourself completely.

That has always been a false choice.

Caring is your superpower. Carrying is your kryptonite.

Scroll up and grab your copy today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Well YOUniversity Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1947745646
• ISBN 13: 9781947745643
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 123
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg