📚 A trusted place to start: the National Cancer Institute's caregiver hub — practical help for caring for someone and for yourself: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/caregiver-support What's the hardest practical part for you right now — schedules, medications, insurance, work, or something else?

📚 A trusted resource — NCI — Support for Caregivers of Cancer Patients Practical and emotional help for caring for someone with cancer — and for taking care of yourself — from the National Cancer Institute. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/caregiver-support (Informational only — always check with your care team on anything medical.)

The question nobody asks you 🫂 How are YOU doing — not the person you're caring for, you? Sleep, meals, your own appointments you keep putting off? Be honest; this is the place for it.

📚 Worth a read — Advice for Caregivers of Cancer Patients — Overview If you are caring for a person with cancer, you are a very important part of the cancer patient's care team. Your role may change over the course of treatment. For example, you may provide mainly emotional support at... via CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer-survivors/caregivers/index.html (Informational only — always check with your care team on anything medical.)

A few things this Circle is 💛 — A place where YOU are the one being asked how you're doing. — For every kind of caregiver — partners, parents of children with cancer, adult children, siblings, friends, long-distance helpers, and those who've lost the person they cared for. — Honest. Tired, angry, scared, guilty, relieved — all of it is allowed here, no judgment. What would make this space feel most useful to you?