Beginning Again After Caregiving Ends
Caregiving ends in an instant — but the experience lingers. This six-class course helps you close out your caregiving experience, grieve your losses, and move into the next phase of your life feeling comforted, confident, and ready.
Hosted on Caring Our Way
- Six archived presentations — available at your own pace
- PDF of Denise's book, After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again
- Access to private community group on CaringOurWay.com
Take as much time as you need. All presentations are archived and available whenever you're ready — return to them as often as you like.
About This Course
Your Life After Caregiving Is Waiting
The end of caregiving leaves you a new person — yet without the time and perspective to adjust to that newness. It also brings a profound conundrum: how do you move forward as this new person when you're missing the one who just died?
As a former family caregiver, you can find information about grieving, settling an estate, and selling a house. What's harder to find is guidance on how to close out a caregiving experience. You may worry you didn't do enough. You may carry resentment toward family members who didn't help. You might wonder how to find a purpose as meaningful as caregiving was.
This course was built for exactly that. Organized into six classes and grounded in Denise's book, After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again, it walks with you through every part of beginning again.
"I am so appreciating your course, Beginning Again After Caregiving Ends. Many thoughts and ideas have been both practical and inspiring. I have found many gems of wisdom and caring within every session."
— Catrina, who cared for her husbandComforted About Your Past
Make peace with the caregiving experience and all it held
Confident About Your Future
Discover who you are now and what your next chapter holds
Ready to Begin Your Present
Take your first steps forward with clarity and purpose
Course Agenda
Six Classes, Your Timeline
Each class builds on the last, guiding you through the full journey of beginning again — from closing out your caregiving experience all the way to sharing your story with others.
Class 1
Close
- Managing Regrets
- Reconciling Resentments
- Wrapping Up the Story
- Working Out Worries
Class 2
Open
- Outing Grief
- Your Day & Your Routine
- Your Health & Socializing
- Your Identity
Class 3
Discover
- Your Values
- Your Passions
- Your Gifts
- Your Purpose
Class 4
Experiment
- Career & Volunteering
- Relationships & Dating
- Travel & Learning
- Applying Your New Priorities
Class 5
Drive
- Stocking Up for the Road Trip
- Managing the Potholes
- Forming Your Support Team
- Changing Course When Needed
Class 6
Share
- Your Lessons Learned During Caregiving
- Your Life & Your Dreams
- Supporting Those Behind You
Included: Denise's Book
Your enrollment includes a PDF of After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again — Denise's book that follows the same six-class journey. Together, the course and the book encourage, motivate, and inspire you to move into the next phase of your life, bringing with you the best of what you gained during caregiving.
Your Instructor
Meet Denise Brown
Denise M. Brown
Founder, The Caregiving Years Training Academy
Denise first began to think about life after caregiving in 1997 when she wrote The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey. The sixth stage — the Godspeed Caregiver — speaks to that life after caregiving ends. She has been working with family caregivers since 1990 and her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and Time magazine.
Ready to Begin Again?
Enroll in Beginning Again After Caregiving Ends and take your first steps toward the next chapter of your life.
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