How and why Black History links to the present & future

You’re invited to join Keeping it REAL Caregiving along with a select group of fellow independent writers, as we celebrate Black History.

Join us this Thursday, February 10, 2022 from 5:30pm – 7:00pm, for a Black History Month round-table discussion I’m leading with other writers on Bulletin, Meta’s publishing platform for independent writers.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3GZrmj7

Folks, this is going to be a lively and insightful discussion because we’re going to hear from some of the leading voices who are capturing, sharing and elevating our stories, successes and challenges, across various topics. Here’s the rundown:

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5:30pm – Going Beyond Self-Care

  • Featuring Alex Elle, Rhonda Ross, Nedra Tawwab, and me, Julia Yarbough

6:00pm – The Black Experience from Past to Present

  • Featuring Cari Champion, Dana James, and Sloane Stephens

6:30pm – The Changing Landscape of Representation

  • Featuring Michael Felder, Kenneth Miles, Charlene Rhinehart, and Claire Sulmers

I do hope you’ll join us for this gathering of Bulletin Writers!

**And for everyone who is a caregiver, I believe my session will hit close to home, because we all know how important self-care is. But what does that really mean and how do we achieve that?**

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Emotional & personal reflections

Thursday’s round-table event comes at such an incredible time, because honestly, I need to hear some of the guidance and advice from others about all the ways self-care plays out in our lives.

As you know, I lost my mother, Miss Nellie in September, 2020. I miss her every single day. I like to think I’m a fairly emotionally strong person, but sometimes her absence hits me like a ton of bricks. And those bricks smash into me at the most unlikely of moments.

Like one moment I experienced and shared in a recent blog post.

In that moment of looking at all the brightly colored ‘stuff,’ I just wanted to cry. I was transported back to when my mother was still independent and self-sufficient. When she could make a trip to Home Goods on her own. Of watching her look at and fiddle with all the little kitschy stuff for sale.

I’m going to venture to guess that many of you have experienced something similar that just bubbled-up and took hold, right?

You should have seen me, standing there in the check-out line trying to hold back tears and feeling all kinds of emotions that on the surface made absolutely no sense, but made all the sense in the world.

Not to mention, I know there are many of you out there who struggle with how to juggle your duties of caring for a loved one while maintaining your own care. It is not easy!

I hosted a Q&A on Facebook earlier this week asking all of you to chime in on how you view self-care. One participant put it like this:

“I find when things aren’t the best for my dad, I GREATLY neglect myself. I have created a quite space but often feel guilty when I retreat there. It’s a tough one.”

So, I do hope you’ll join us this Thursday – it’s going to be fun and I’m looking forward to connecting with all of you! And be sure to join the discussion and share YOUR moments of SELF-CARE.

  • What works?

  • How it helps you?

  • And what you learn in those moments of stillness?

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See you tomorrow!

Julia

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