
The Caregiver's CarePort
The podcast dedicated to protecting and nurturing the health and wellbeing of family caregivers and the people who love them.
Episodes
23 episodes
Podcast 23 - My Husband's Arms - Beauty in the Midst of Caregiving
In this episode of the Caregivers CarePort, Dr. Corabell Arps discusses the vital role of beauty in the lives of caregivers. She emphasizes that beauty is not just about aesthetics but is essential for mental and emotional health. The conversat...
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Episode 23
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16:47

Podcast 22 - Steps for Navigating Caregiving Decisions
Making decisions as a caregiver can be emotionally challenging, but it is important to navigate them with clarity and compassion. Understanding the situation, including who has the legal authority to make decisions, is crucial. Involving family...
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Episode 22
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27:20

Podcast 21 - Transforming Negativity
Podcast 21 explores the tendency to have negative thoughts and be self-critical, especially in challenging situations like caregiving. It discusses how these negative thoughts are often based on distorted thinking patterns and offers strategies...
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Episode 21
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27:15

Podcast 20: How to lessen caregiver stress
This episode explores the significant stressors that caregivers experience, including personal grief and loss, dealing with challenging behaviors, feelings of guilt and self-blame, navigating family dynamics, financial consequences, and decisio...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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34:58

Podcast 19 - Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Burnout and compassion fatigue are common among caregivers. Burnout is characterized by overwhelming exhaustion, cynicism, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Compassion fatigue is the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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22:58

Podcast 18 - Organizing and Managing Medications
Creating a medication schedule, tracking medication intake, and effective communication are key to managing medications effectively. Tools and resources such as medication apps and pill organizers can simplify the process. It's important to fin...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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12:25

Podcast 17: Love, Care, and Compassion for You!
Care and compassion. Those are two hallmarks of the love that family caregivers bestow on their loved one. Who doesn't want to be thought of as loving, caring, and compassionate? And what caregiver doesn't strive for it? Caring for a loved one ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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28:27

Podcast 16 Ten Myths and Truths About Caregiving
In this episode, we explore 10 myths and 10 truths about caregiving.
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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31:41

Podcast 15 - Managing Anxiety
In this Caregivers' Care Port episode, we'll learn about anxiety's emotional and physical symptoms and how they can affect you and the person you care for. We'll explore what puts you at risk, how you can protect yourself and your loved one,...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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34:16

Podcast 14 - Depression Decoded
Depression is more than just a bout of the blues. It isn’t a weakness or a character flaw. And you can’t simply snap out of it. Depression can happen to anyone.Do you ever notice that the stress and work of caregiving and the changes it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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20:37

Podcast 13 - Supports For Your Mental Health
In this episode of the Caregiver's CarePort, we'll discuss how you can break through the stigma of asking for help, activate supports and self-care for yourself, and how to significantly improve your quality of life as a caregiver.
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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24:05

Podcast 12 - The Genius Zone
Do you love what you're doing? Do you feel like you are just naturally good at it or not? Does it energize you or does it feel like a real chore? Or maybe you're really good at it because you've worked at it and practiced it over enough time th...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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16:57

Podcast 11 - Navigating the Healthcare System
In this episode, Dr. Corabell Arps speaks about the intricacies of navigating your way through the healthcare systems that you encounter and use. Dealing with the systems that impact your loved one's health care needs can be really stressful. B...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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17:36

Podcast 10 - It's About More Than Having a Good Day
How do you make any day a good day? Is it when everything goes like we want it to or we get what we want? Is it a day in which we receive praise or we're told, I love you? Was the weather perfect or was it just that nothing bad happened? And do...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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13:35

Podcast 9 - Loneliness
In this episode, Dr. Corabell Arps discusses loneliness and how to deal with it. What is loneliness? Is it just a thought or an emotion? Does it have a purpose? And why is it sometimes so loud and persistent inside of us? Well, loneliness isn't...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:47

Podcast 8 - How to Get the Most Out of Your Doctor's Appointment
In this episode, Dr. Arps gives tips and discusses how to get the most out of your doctor visits with your loved one.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:25

Podcast 7 - Recognizing and Combating Burnout
In this episode, Dr. Arps speaks with Dr. Tomi Mitchell, a Board Certified physician and Wellness & Performance Coach, about one of the subjects that has been in the news a lot lately: burnout! We talk about what it is, how to recognize ...
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26:14

Podcast 6 - A Journey in Progress
In this episode, our guest is Helen Sullivan, a wife and mother of three adult daughters and grandmother to many teens and young adult grandchildren. Helen and her husband, Bobby, in addition to being partners in marriage and raising a family, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:52

Podcast 5 - Gratitude
In this episode, Dr. Corabell Arps dives deeper into the mindset of gratitude and how gratitude impacts our health and quality of life. What is gratitude? Gratitude is acknowledging the goodness in your life and recognizing that that goodness h...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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16:38

Podcast 4 - Mindset
In this episode, Dr. Corabell Arps discusses the importance of a proper mindset when facing challenges. She gives as an example her experience walking the Camino de Santiago through Spain.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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26:08

Podcast 3 - Care Consultant and Family Support with guest Bill Cohen, Certified Senior Advisor
In this episode, we have as a guest Bill Cohen. Bill is a caregiving support consultant, a certified senior advisor, and a trained elder mediator. And he owns Cohen Caregiving Support Consultants, LLC. Bill was the caregiver for his mother who ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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33:03

Podcast 1 - Introduction
Welcome to the Caregiver’s CarePort! Dr. Corabell Arps is a Board certified health and wellness coach specializing in working with caregivers. In her career as a psychiatrist, she has heard from many devoted caregivers that they used to believe...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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6:36

Podcast 2 - The Power of Sharing and Community
In this episode, Dr. Corabell Arps speaks with caregiver Dayna Steele who navigated her way through the challenges of caring for her mother by using her grit and her strengths of communication and connection. Since her mother's passing, she's u...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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37:29
