💛 How to Let Go of Trying to Be the Perfect Caregiver (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

8 Habits to Tame Caregiving Perfectionism.

Discover ways to replace perfection with purpose.

By Paul Wynn, AARP. Published July 22, 2025.

most of her life, Jeanette Yates, 50, believed that being a good daughter and later, a good caregiver, meant being perfect. As a little girl, she learned early that upsetting her chronically ill mother might make her condition worse. Her mom, Mary Jane Blanchard, had a chronic autoimmune disorder called myasthenia gravis, which disrupts communication between nerves and muscles, causing weakness in muscles that control voluntary movement.

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