Experiencing burnout and isolation? It's time to empower your journey.
Caregiving can be lonely, exhausting, and overwhelming. I've created a space for caregivers to exhale and be heard.
Prioritizing Self Care.
Prioritizing your own well-being will help you show up with more patience and compassion. Self-care isn't selfish. It’s what allows you to care for others without losing yourself in the process. The word "primary" in the title Primary Caregiver starts with you!
You are not alone.
Feeling alone? As loved ones decline or their care becomes more challenging, friends and family tend to disappear. Isolation has a way of convincing us that no one sees us or understands what we are going through as caregivers. Have you developed a support system for yourself?
Every caregiver's journey looks different.
Whether you're a parent, child of aging parents, sister, spouse, father, grandparent, CNA or surgeon, the journey may be different, but the fatigue and need to be heard remain the same. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Each journey is shaped by your unique story, your loved one's needs, and the weight you quietly carry each day. What does your journey look like? In what areas are you struggling the most? Where do you feel the most disconnected? What does being victorious in caregiving look like to you?
About Victorious Vision Coaching, LLC
Who am I?
My Experience
My Experience
I'm Gail, a certified caregiver coach. As someone who was placed in the caregiving role with no strategy, no plan and minimal support, I suffered quietly. Navigating my way through my caregiving journey I transitioned from exhaustion and feeling undervalued to a renewed life filled with peace, balance and purposeful self-care. I offer em
I'm Gail, a certified caregiver coach. As someone who was placed in the caregiving role with no strategy, no plan and minimal support, I suffered quietly. Navigating my way through my caregiving journey I transitioned from exhaustion and feeling undervalued to a renewed life filled with peace, balance and purposeful self-care. I offer empathetic, nonjudgmental coaching to help you reclaim a sense of control and reconnect with your center. You are not alone, and I am here to listen. I am someone who understands what you're experiencing and fully committed to walking the walk with you.
My Experience
My Experience
My Experience
My experience as a caregiver began in 2015 when my mother began showing signs of dementia. Our entire family structure began to unravel, and I found myself caught up in a wave of emotional collapse. I also found myself, involuntarily, being named the "strong one" with expectations to navigate us through the challenges ahead. I felt lost,
My experience as a caregiver began in 2015 when my mother began showing signs of dementia. Our entire family structure began to unravel, and I found myself caught up in a wave of emotional collapse. I also found myself, involuntarily, being named the "strong one" with expectations to navigate us through the challenges ahead. I felt lost, completely overwhelmed and ALONE. Have you ever been surrounded by people, yet still felt alone? My experiences during this journey shaped not only my heart, but my calling to reach other caregivers and provide them with support and understanding. My father‘s dementia journey has now begun, and I am navigating my way through this journey of highs and lows. Give me a call and tell me how I can serve you in your personal journey. I am equipped with the tools to help you navigate your way through. You are not alone.
My Services
My Experience
My Services
After obtaining my certification from the Coach Training Alliance, I felt assured and fully equipped to help caregivers, like myself, who feel overwhelmed and struggle to find a space of our own while caring for loved ones. I offer one-on-one confidential coaching sessions, in packages of 4, 8 and 12 sessions. But first try a free discove
After obtaining my certification from the Coach Training Alliance, I felt assured and fully equipped to help caregivers, like myself, who feel overwhelmed and struggle to find a space of our own while caring for loved ones. I offer one-on-one confidential coaching sessions, in packages of 4, 8 and 12 sessions. But first try a free discovery session to help you to determine if we are a good fit. Then together we can determine which package best meets the needs of your current situation. Contact me today and let’s have a quick chat about how I can help you.
-Gail W. LaRue, CTACC
"Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by SERVICE."
-MLK
Give the gift of support and guidance to a caregiver in need
The best gift you can give a caregiver is the opportunity to be recognized. Victorious Vision Coaching provides one on one sessions tailored to encourage, guide and support caregivers to unleash their full potential. Call today and order the gift that keeps on giving.
5 Silent Struggles of Caregivers
1. Loss of Identity
The passions and roles that once defined you tend to be taken over by the title and role of "caregiver", and all of its demands. You become so inundated with the care of a loved one that your own identity gets lost and/or forgotten.
2. Feeling Invisible
The spotlight tends to focus on the person receiving care. Oftentimes, the caregiver's needs are not asked about or being met because life revolves around the person who needs care. The caregiver's mental, physical, and emotional needs tend to get lost in the shadows of the loved one being cared for.
3. Carrying Guilt
Caregivers often carry a deep sense of guilt when they step away to rest. Even simple things like going to dinner with a friend, or spending a weekend away, can falsely feel like abandonment or betrayal. The guilt can become even more intense when the relationship is complicated, especially if the loved one tends toward narcissistic or self-centered behavior and struggles to recognize the caregiver's need for rest, space or support.
4. Decision Fatigue
As the primary caregiver, head nurse/supervisor, POA, or even "chosen child" the majority of decisions fall on you. This includes countless appointment scheduling, daily care, financial decisions, medication management, even choosing the right facility for your loved one. The ongoing responsibility of daily decision-making leaves little mental energy for anything else.
5. Mercy Wishing
Watching a loved one become increasingly ill, day after day, month after month and year after year is an indescribable feeling for a caregiver. They watch their loved one slowly slip away. Somewhere within that exhaustion a terrifying thought sometimes comes to the brain. It's the thought of wanting this to be over and for the person to be free from their suffering and pain. The moment in which the thought crosses the mind, guilt pours in. Guilt of having such a thought. Mercy Wishing is NOT wanting to lose your loved one. It's wanting their pain, agony, incapacitation and suffering to end. The line can appear blurred and misunderstood by others. You want the pain to stop hurting the person you love which is the deepest compassion worn down to its barest form. Primary caregivers especially, should recognize this feeling, not with guilt, but as the deepest level of compassion for their loved one, and nothing more.
