Free emotional support tools
Welcome to Your Resource Hub
This is a place to find support when the emotional side of dementia feels heavy, confusing, or hard to explain.
Some tools help you ground yourself. Some help you reflect. Some come from past Connection Hour topics.
You do not need to use everything. Start with what fits what you are carrying today.
Start here if you feel overwhelmed
These tools are for the moments when everything feels like too much and you need a simple place to begin.
Family Member’s First Aid Kit
A simple guide to help you steady yourself when emotions feel intense, confusing, or hard to hold.
Finding Calm When Overwhelm Hits
A Connection Hour resource for the moments when your nervous system feels overloaded and you need to come back to yourself.
Big Feelings and What to Do With Them
A reflection tool for naming what is coming up without judging yourself for having the feeling.
Start here if you are carrying guilt or self-doubt
These resources help you notice guilt, understand second-guessing, and soften the way you speak to yourself.
Guilt and Self-Doubt
A Connection Hour resource to help you understand why guilt shows up and how to meet it with more honesty and less self-blame.
When Guilt Sneaks In
A worksheet and reflection resource for noticing guilt before it takes over the whole story.
The Inner Critic
A resource for understanding the part of you that criticizes, second-guesses, or tries to protect you by being hard on you.
Start here if you are grieving someone who is still here
These tools support the grief that starts before death and the emotions that can feel hard to explain.
Grief and Loss
A Connection Hour resource for naming the grief that begins before death and understanding why it can feel so hard to explain.
Grief Says...
A reflection resource to help you notice what grief may be trying to say underneath the sadness, anger, guilt, or exhaustion.
Processing After Seeing Your Loved One
A reflective guide for processing the emotions that can rise after a visit so you are not carrying it all alone.
Start here if the future feels uncertain
These resources help when your mind jumps ahead, the future feels unclear, or you feel pressure to prepare for everything.
Navigating Uncertainty Workbook
A workbook to help you feel more anchored when the future feels unclear, unstable, or impossible to plan for.
The Moment Your Mind Jumps Ahead
A Connection Hour resource for noticing when your mind races into the future and gently bringing yourself back to today.
Trying to Prepare for What You Can’t Fully Prepare For
A reflection resource for separating practical preparation from the emotional pressure to be ready for everything.
Start here if you feel disconnected from yourself
These tools help you name what is happening inside you and rebuild small pieces of steadiness and self-trust.
The Dementia Emotions Decoder
Decode the complex emotions you’re experiencing, Understand why they arise and learn three practical strategies to manage them
Identity Shifts
A Connection Hour resource for exploring how dementia changes your role, your relationship, and your sense of who you are.
Small Internal Agreements
A reflection tool for rebuilding self-trust through small, steady promises you can actually keep.
Want the full worksheet library?
The Connection Hour Resource Library includes worksheets, visuals, and reflection tools organized by month and topic.
One-time purchase: $9.99
Explore the Resource LibraryEverything above was created to support the emotional side of loving someone with dementia.
These tools are not about fixing how you feel. They are here to help you pause, name what is happening, and find a little more steadiness while things keep changing.
Below, you’ll find a few outside resources I recommend if you’d like to learn more.
These are external resources I recommend if you’d like to explore more.
Understanding Dementia & Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s Association – Understanding Alzheimer’s & Dementia
A comprehensive, easy-to-follow breakdown of what dementia is, the stages of Alzheimer’s, and how families are impacted.
👉 www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers
National Institute on Aging – Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral Center (ADEAR)
Government resource with science-backed info, downloadable fact sheets, and research updates.
👉 www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers
Books You Might Find Helpful
The 36-Hour Day by Nancy L. Mace & Peter V. Rabins
A go-to classic for understanding the medical, emotional, and practical aspects of dementia caregiving.
Loving Someone Who Has Dementia by Pauline Boss
Especially helpful for understanding ambiguous loss and grief throughout the journey.
Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer’s Journey by Jolene Brackey
Simple, hopeful practices to reconnect—even during difficult stages.
Grief, Ambiguous Loss & Self-Care
Ambiguous Loss Resource Page (Pauline Boss)
Understand ambiguous loss and how to process ongoing grief.
Grief.com – Resources for Emotional Grief Support
Articles and videos from grief expert David Kessler
Megan Devine – Refuge in Grief
Grief advocate and therapist offering courses, writing, and community for people experiencing profound loss.
(Check out her book: “It’s OK That You’re Not OK”)
When reading feels supportive
If you’re looking for words that help put language to what you’re experiencing, you can explore reflections and insights in the Emotions & Dementia blog.
(Read when it feels helpful. Skip it when it doesn’t.)
Feeling like you’re ready for something more?
If you’d like to continue feeling supported
beyond these tools, explore structured support
designed for emotional steadiness at every stage.
However you’re feeling right now—confused, heartbroken, numb, or unsure—
know that you're not doing it wrong.
You're just human, walking through something hard.
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