Resources to Help You Feel Less Alone—Right Now
Start With These Free Tools From Me
Support that’s grounded in both clinical experience and personal understanding.
✨ The Family Member's First Aid Kit
A simple, compassionate guide to help you ground yourself when emotions feel overwhelming. Think of it as your go-to for breath, calm, and perspective when everything is too much.
🌫️ Navigating Uncertainty Workbook
When the future feels foggy and unstable, this workbook offers practical tools to anchor yourself emotionally—so you can move forward with more steadiness and less panic.
🌦️ Emotional Weather Map
When your emotions feel unpredictable or contradictory, this visual tool helps you name what you're feeling without judgment. It’s a gentle way to acknowledge your internal landscape and reconnect with your needs.
💔 Processing Your Emotions After Seeing Your Loved One with Dementia
Visits can leave you emotionally flooded—grief, guilt, sadness, and helplessness often show up all at once. This reflective guide helps you gently process what rises after being with your loved one, so you’re not carrying it all alone.
💡 Everything above is something I created based on years of supporting families like yours. But you don’t have to walk this alone—below, you’ll find a few outside tools and voices that I’ve found helpful or healing along the way.
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”)
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.
These tools are here to support you when you're ready.
There’s no right way to begin—just beginning is enough.