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Begin with the simple things.

When life seems overwhelming, there are sometimes simple things we can do to minimize the stress as we lean into enjoying life. Illinois Extension offers practical ideas to approaching some potential roadblocks to living your best life.

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Live Your Bucket List

The point of a bucket list is to help you live your life to the fullest.
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Plan Your Family Heirlooms

Make a plan for passing along your personal possessions.
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Clear Clutter From Your Home

Keep clutter from overwhelming your home.
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Build Your Resilience

Resilient people adapt, recover, and grow stronger from adverse situations.
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Caring for others presents new opportunities and challenges.

Family caregiving can be a genuinely rewarding as families find themselves spending more time together. Still, caregivers may face new challenges that leave them overwhelmed, anxious, and unsure of the best paths forward. In caring for others, many caregivers forget to take care of their own needs. Illinois Extension, in its series on caregiving, speaks to the common issues facing caregivers: communication, relationship changes, elder services, and dealing with mixed emotions.

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Self Care Is Important

Learn ways to address caregiver stress and burnout.
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Speak Clearly

Learn communication techniques that will help to express your feelings.
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Protect Relationships

Relationships with family members change for caregivers.
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Understand Emotions

Learn how to accept and manage difficult emotions.
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Understand Services

Find professional assistance for your caregiving.
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Couple Relationships

Couple relationships face challenges in a caregiving situation.
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Be Mindful

Mindfulness is the act of paying purposeful attention to the present.