Carrying Others
While Carrying Yourself

This book was written for the people who have spent so much time caring for others that they have forgotten how to care for themselves.

Not because you do not want to. Not because you do not know how. But because the weight of being the strong one — the one everyone leans on, the one who always shows up, the one who never lets anyone see what carrying it all is costing — has made it almost impossible to put yourself on the list of people you are willing to take care of.

This book is for the people who:

• Are the caregiver everyone depends on — the spouse, the adult child, the ministry leader, the friend who never gets asked how they are doing.
• Have poured themselves out for so long that they do not remember what their own needs feel like.
• Lie awake at night wondering if they are doing enough for the people they love, while quietly falling apart on the inside.
• Have been told to take care of themselves — but have no idea where to even begin.
• Are carrying someone through illness, disability, aging, crisis, dementia, stroke, special needs, or loss — and the carrying never stops.
• Have lost themselves somewhere along the way and want to find their way back — not out of duty, but because they matter too.

You can carry others without losing yourself. You matter too.