You are needed by everyone.
Your kids need you present, patient, and engaged.
Your aging parents need you available, organized, and calm.
Your partner needs you connected.
Your job needs you focused.
And you — the actual person underneath all of those roles — hasn't been asked what she needs in a very long time.
This is the sandwich generation.
And it is one of the most quietly devastating places a woman can find herself — because the grief is invisible, the exhaustion is expected, and the world keeps handing you more to hold.
I use narrative therapy to help you separate yourself from the roles that have consumed you — so you can see clearly what you actually want, what you actually feel, and what kind of life you want to be living while you're living it.
Where the exhaustion has deeper roots — old patterns of self-abandonment, losses that never got processed, grief that doesn't have a name — I bring in EMDR to help your nervous system finally exhale.
This isn't about becoming a better caregiver.
It's about becoming a fuller person — which, as it turns out, makes you a better caregiver anyway.