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Caregiving Requires Resilience — and a System to Care for Yourself

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Vicki Tull
Apr 08, 2026
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Caregiving Requires Resilience — and a System to Care for Yourself

After a few years of “going it alone” while caring for Lee, I came to understand a few things:

  1. My body was telling me I couldn’t keep doing it this way. It was sending me data in the form of fatigue, headaches, stress, and depression.

  2. I was trying to solve a problem that had only one ending.

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