Sustainable Caregiving Strategies Empower Caregivers!

Theresa Wilbanks is the founder of Sustainable Caregiving, a caregiving keynote speaker, author of Navigating the Caregiver River: A Journey to Sustainable Caregiving, a Certified Caregiver Consultant™, and podcast host, Self-Caregiving Strategies Podcast.

Theresa Wilbanks is a caregiving speaker who focuses on strategies that empower the caregiver to navigate their caregiving journey with confidence. The strategies that Theresa shares help reduce caregiver stress and provide caregivers skills that they can begin using immediately. Theresa’s presentations have benefited many corporate and community audiences virtually and in-person including Cigna, Frontier Behavioral Health, Post-Polio Health International, RCAC, Parker Colorado Parks & Recreation Department, Pilots International, and many more.

Theresa connects with the audience through humor and vulnerability. She shares insights into her caregiving story, including the challenges, frustrations and fear that can cause us to lose hope and confidence. Her message is uplifting and the audience leaves the presentation feeling empowered to confidently navigate their caregiving journey.

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“Theresa came to speak to our group in November and we have gotten so much positive feedback from the attendees. The 12 Sustainable Caregiving Strategies were very helpful and the way Theresa describes the whole caregiver spectrum is a great way to look at the experience and made it easy for everyone to relate to and describe where they are on their caregiving journey. Theresa also shared her own personal experience caring for her dad. Caregiving can be a hard topic to discuss, but Theresa’s presentation was uplifting and wonderful. I would recommend her to anyone needing a speaker on caregiving.”

Jessie Knight, Provider Data Senior Representative, Cigna Healthcare

“Thank you for your fabulous presentations! We were thrilled to have you participate! Your message truly captivated the audience and spoke to their hearts. Thank you for all you do!”

Caregiver Support Program – Frontier Behavioral Health

Navigating the Caregiver River Presentation

In the Navigating the Caregiver River presentation, we explore the common challenges caregivers face during each phase of caring for a family member, and we discuss the 12 strategies that lead to a sustainable caregiving experience. The Special Edition 12 Sustainable Caregiving Strategies PDF eBook is included for each participant.

When we experience a significant life change, our support network often changes, so it isn’t surprising that we need to rethink and recreate our support system when we step, or fall head-first, into a caregiving role. When we think of a support system, we often think of people. While people can be an essential part of our caregiver support system, we need a more varied and versatile system that doesn’t solely rely on the physical and emotional availability of others. As a speaker, I demonstrate through examples how the 12 Sustainable Caregiving Strategies can help caregivers construct a new support system.

Imagine your caregiving journey is like being in a raft on a river. The river has calm sections, obstacles, rapids, and a few waterfalls. We often don’t know what is around the next bend. At times, we feel like we’ve been tossed out of the raft and are drowning. When we employ certain strategies to protect our well-being, manage the emotions and the stress, the river doesn’t change, but how we navigate the river changes. We step into the flow.

Become empowered with Sustainable Caregiving Strategies and explore how to:

“When Theresa Wilbanks speaks it makes my heart sing! She is kind, compassionate and her presentations are over the top. She has spoken at many of my conferences and the participants are always very impressed with her knowledge and how she makes them feel so good. If you want a great speaker, Theresa is your gal!“

Linda Burhans, Connecting Caregivers Radio & Connecting Caregivers Conference

3-Hour Navigating the Caregiver River Series

Sustainable Caregiving: Prevent and Recover from Burnout

We discuss four strategies to prevent and recover from caregiver burnout. The strategies include setting boundaries, disarming the trigger minefield, cultivating compassion, and reimagining self-care.

Sustainable Caregiving: Reimagine Control

We discuss four strategies to help us reimagine control while caregiving. The strategies include accepting the role, accepting help, reduce conflict, and transforming obstacles.

Sustainable Caregiving: Manage the Emotions

We discuss four strategies to help us manage complicated caregiver emotions. The strategies include venting, journaling, forgiving, and planning for the worries.

Downloadable handouts are included.

Sustainable Caregiving Strategies Series

30-Minute Presentations or 50-Minute Workshops

Downloadable handouts are included.

“Incredible speaker and professional. She leads with her heart and delivers with her experience. Our platform is greater having had Theresa be a part of it through her educational work.“

Mike Eidsaune,
CEO Caregiving.com

Attendee Feedback

This has been SO helpful for me…I have been struggling so terribly every day (MIL moved in early October) and we moved in order to accommodate her and I quit my job and got a new job working from home in order to be here for her 24 hours a day….thanks to you, I finally figured out what exactly I have been feeling which I had not realized…Resentment. And grieving what was before….and then guilt for feeling that… 🙁

Melissa S.

Theresa’s points and examples were “spot on”. I really laughed out loud about the resealable blueberry bag ruckus example. It is uncanny that just today I saw a chaotic e-mail exchange among us sisters about snack bags and who would need to make a special trip to Walmart for them !!!!

My sister has been doing the inventorying of certain items like this but her boundary setting approach is now “drop and run” and don’t communicate this new boundary to anyone! Needless to say, we are in need of a “Theresa chat” about setting boundaries and asking for help in a more respectful way! Gratefully,

Ruth

This speaker is amazing!!!!… I wish I had all this wonderful info/ resources when my sister and I were caretaking our mom and trying to navigate our path 6 years ago!

Josephine M.

Thank you so much for this information – you have been great and this presentation has been great – Thank you!

Justine M.