The Depressed Mom-Boss Podcast- Life with mental illness: It's a part of you but doesn't define you

The word hustle is a noun, a transitive verb and an intransitive verb. 

It can mean energy in playing a sport; a scam; to jostle; to hasten; to swindle. 

It also means selling or promoting or working aggressively. 

But it also has become a word in our culture that is celebrated. Keep grinding. Don't stop. If you want it bad enough, you'll keep going. 

And although it is important to work mindfully, the idea that hustling is how you're going to make it??? It doesn't account for when you are going to burn out. 

Take a listen and comment about your perspective on 'the hustle'. 

I like summers. I really do and I definitely need the Vitamin D from the sun. 

But, they also really suck because of the broken routines, scheduling 'fun' in a condensed, time-off, timeframe. 

Yes, that's right, they suck and often when I tell people, they look at me as if I have 2 heads, and question what is wrong with me... which automatically makes me feel guilty.

So, how do I deal with it? 

Here are 5 little steps in less than 5 minutes that you can take right now to reset and celebrate the September New Year. 

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According to my mother, she says “I don’t have dementia… everyone else has dementia.”

I consider myself the 'in between' generation. I am young enough to have young children, but old enough to have aging parents that require my help. I never could've predicted how much of my time would be pulled in opposite directions with family obligations, and the learning curve in navigating life with a parent with dementia was steep, and fast.

I know that so many of us are struggling with this right now, and although we have professionals that can help, we still continue to feel that we don't know what to do as it relates to making decisions for a parent that is no longer competent to make their own decisions. 

I'm still learning. I'm still going through this. And with yet another health scare for my mother, I realize that I still need help. So, that starts with telling my story with my mom through the years and sharing it with all of you.

You can read this article at: https://sarahkhan.org/2019/11/05/you-will-never-know/

Friends, If you or someone you know is being affected by dementia, feel free to reach out to me at hello@sarahkhan.org 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://sarahkhan.org/2019/01/23/i-captured-my-son-counting-on-video-but-im-a-bad-mom/

April is Autism Acceptance month in Nova Scotia, so I wanted to share some of the earlier struggles that I had as a mom of a child with autism-- more specifically that struggles that I internally dealt with that weren't because of him at all, but because of me and not being able to cope and feeling like I was the worst mom ever, which I know many parents feel, regardless of having a special needs child or not.

We don't always want to admit how bad we feel as parents, especially when we make mistakes. But, honestly, we're just human and we need to recognize that we will always continue to learn, usually from those mistakes.

Friends, I hope that some of what I share resonates with you. 

You can read the full blog post as well as see his video at the link above.

I would love to hear from you. Contact me via www.SarahKhan.org or email hello@sarahkhan.org