by Monica Vest Wheeler | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Monica and her father-in-law who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. When I wrote a book on coping with the emotional and everyday challenges of Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory loss in 2008, I had no idea how much I’d rely on my own words two years later. In spring...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
On those days when you don’t love yourself, force your eyes open to see the vision and love that others have of you. I’m reminded of that time and again on those days when depression threatens to derail me, when I get so caught up in the misfiring of my...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
While talking with a coach friend, I shared how I was back to writing more, and feeling alive again as my soul explodes with ink. We discussed the different audiences with whom I engage … caregivers, survivors, healthcare professionals, individuals at every curve on...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
I often flip through Mom’s small desk calendar, and this week noted one of her annual dates to remember, the passing of her mother in 1944, when Mom was a month shy of her fifth birthday. More than a quarter century ago, I became fascinated, actually obsessed, with...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Monica speaking at her mother’s celebration of life in July 2018. I’m hearing and reading the word “funeral” a little less these days. Is it a shift in society or vocabulary or a way to describe something that sounds so final? “Service” appears frequently as...
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