Hello Caregivers!

If you have ever helped someone you are a caregiver.

Qualities of a caregiver begin with compassion. This is a natural quality of any human being that springs eternal.

According to the work of Martin Seligman, positive psychologist, the key to well-being is to express key universal strengths or virtues. These are identifiable across all cultures. There is a universality to positive expressions of these virtues.

Individuals also go through life stages that are both deeply personal and social. According to Erik Erikson, psychosocial psychologist, each stage of life requires the person to make sense of their life. This is particularly on point for our considerations as caregivers. Knowledge of these life stages gives comfort and certainty to these unbidden changes of life.

Another perspective is that of knowledge from the East. What virtues are strengthening to the person to gives service to others? The East has ancient texts that reveal thousands years old knowledge of these basic human traits, which must be developed. These can be seen as knowledge of self-care.