My name is Jeanette, and I am a wife, a mom, a social media manager, and a caregiver for my mom who has many chronic conditions. Another thing about me is that I'm also on my own healing journey from childhood trauma, abuse and an eating disorder. So trying to take care of myself while taking care of care of everyone else is a bit of a challenge
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 0:28
Hey, Jeanette, welcome to Swell, and thank you for inviting us on this journey with you. I think this platform is really good for conversations like these, and people want to have them. Everyone wants to unpack these things, and it's good to have check ins in this platform, I've found, at least. So, yeah. Thank you so much for sharing, and I'm excited to hear more from you
Jeanette Yates
@SelfCaregiver · 0:50
Thank you again for the welcome, and I'm looking forward to hopping over to your channel and listening to more about what you have to say. And like you, I like to just get into the deep conversations. I'm a much better deep talker than Chitchatter
Jeanette Yates
@SelfCaregiver · 3:06
And so the more I did that, the less we were able to kind of focus on connecting as mother and daughter. But yeah, recently got into therapy, started setting some boundaries, got some more support on the caregiving piece so that we could begin to heal a little bit of that relationship that had been separated and broken from just years of me having to do everything