Jun 18, 2026 · 45 min · 8 segments
Nobody taught you how to talk to your person after everything changed. And nobody taught you how to speak up for yourself either. This episode covers both. Genevieve Richardson, MS CCC-SLP, walks…
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Her husband went in for a routine knee surgery and he was doing this before he retired.
Their plan of him going into the hospital looked absolutely nothing like that.
They were not connected together at all, and it was excruciating for her.
So whether your life changed like Dee's life changed in a moment in time, or whether you've watched the change happen slowly, you are carrying one of the heaviest burdens there is, that of being a caregiver or care provider.
And if you are supporting someone who has primary progressive aphasia or frontal temporal dementia, you are watching your person lose their language while they're still aware of it.
Your love for that person that you care for is real, no matter what the disease is that's involved.
However you came into this role, I want to acknowledge you for the job you have taken on.
Or maybe this is just how you are and you stepped up because there wasn't anybody else to do it.
grieving the things that you're not able to do anymore, you've had to make a significant sacrifice in your life to take on new roles and responsibilities.
What I also know is that you deserve to have tools and strategies that are specific practical and are yours to keep and to work with you've taken on one of the hardest jobs there is and you've been doing it with hopefully some support but maybe not as much support as you would like and this presentation today is to give you some more practical tools to help your role so You may resonate with this, that caregivers, care partners tend to pretend in front of everybody else that you have it together.
That when you're in front of the doctor, you hold it all together because you want to be strong for your person.
You walk into that appointment and say that you're feeling fine and you hold it all together while you are in front of the doctor because that's what you do.
Her husband went in for a routine knee surgery and he was doing this before he retired.
Their plan of him going into the hospital looked absolutely nothing like that.
They were not connected together at all, and it was excruciating for her.
So whether your life changed like Dee's life changed in a moment in time, or whether you've watched the change happen slowly, you are carrying one of the heaviest burdens there is, that of being a caregiver or care provider.
And if you are supporting someone who has primary progressive aphasia or frontal temporal dementia, you are watching your person lose their language while they're still aware of it.
Your love for that person that you care for is real, no matter what the disease is that's involved.
However you came into this role, I want to acknowledge you for the job you have taken on.
Or maybe this is just how you are and you stepped up because there wasn't anybody else to do it.
grieving the things that you're not able to do anymore, you've had to make a significant sacrifice in your life to take on new roles and responsibilities.
What I also know is that you deserve to have tools and strategies that are specific practical and are yours to keep and to work with you've taken on one of the hardest jobs there is and you've been doing it with hopefully some support but maybe not as much support as you would like and this presentation today is to give you some more practical tools to help your role so You may resonate with this, that caregivers, care partners tend to pretend in front of everybody else that you have it together.
That when you're in front of the doctor, you hold it all together because you want to be strong for your person.
You walk into that appointment and say that you're feeling fine and you hold it all together while you are in front of the doctor because that's what you do.
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