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A purposeful life is worth striving for, Valerie has lived a life of caring for others, whether it be caring for her family, caring for her patients in the dental community, private practice, and school districts, or serving in her church and neighborhood community groups.
This season of her life has been the most challenging to navigate, however very rewarding. Learning to live from season to season, from moment to moment, is a gift for an impactful life well lived!
"Live life to the fullest, but don't forget who gave you life". Valerie Price
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Peanut Butter and Jelly, Anyone?
The Sandwiched Generation
Valerie Price
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by Valerie Price
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ISBN: 979-8-89383-213-6
PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY, ANYONE?
The Sandwiched Generation
VALERIE PRICE
This book is dedicated to my loved ones, past, present, and future, who encourage me,inspire me and give me the purposeful life that I continue to enjoy!
Your IMPACT is monumental!
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1. Emotional/Mental Impact
2. Physical Impact
3. Spiritual Impact
4. Financial Impact
5. Family/Relationships Impact
6. Conclusion
PREFACE
You may have read the title of this book and wondered, what is this about? As a member of the Sandwiched Generation for 14+ years, I have experienced a lot of intense life events, with many twists, turns, highs, and lows. Life moves me so quickly with moments of wild unpredictable changes like an emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual rollercoaster!
I hope that this book will enlighten, encourage, and edify you. Take courage in knowing that what you are experiencing is a life journey that thousands have already gone through, are currently going through, or will go through in the future. A very impactful season of life.
I hope that this book will bring you hope as you go through this “rollercoaster ride” of life and that you realize you are not alone and can call on others to help you with the pressure and stress you will ultimately experience.
Hopefully getting through this wild ride without the feelings of guilt, regret, or inadequacy that I experienced.
This book is about a "season" in life. Unlike our typical seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall, where what occurs is usually predictable, the “seasons” of our lives could last for days, weeks, months, or even years and be filled with surprising twists and turns. As for me, it's been years and is still ongoing.
Life in the middle, caring for young growing children and caring for aging elderly parents at the same time, is stressful. You feel the squeeze and pressure. Trying to balance the needs of your elderly loved ones and the needs of your immediate family, a spouse, children, and grandchildren, is challenging to say the least. At times it can feel like pressing together the two slices of bread of a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich to squeeze the thick nutty paste and sweet semisolid spread together for that first bite. It is quite the squeeze!
However, there are lifelong rewards when you make it through this season of life successfully. And I thank God for the family and friends whose vision was broad enough to see the need for assistance in caregiving. Priceless! Take a look at this book for some possible insight on how to survive this season of your life!
INTRODUCTION
Are you feeling the squeeze in this season of your life?
This book is a series of events as seen through my eyes, heard with my ears, and felt in my heart as a member of the Sandwiched Generation.
The Sandwiched Generation is named so because we are essentially sandwiched between the obligation and responsibility to care for our aging elderly loved ones––who may be ill, unable to perform various daily tasks, or in need of financial support and our children, all of whom may require financial, physical, spiritual, and emotional support as well.
Although there are many descriptions, I found that the members of the Sandwiched Generation are typically middle-aged or between the ages of 40-70. Usually, 19% of the members are younger than 40, and 10% are age 60 and older, and are caring for both their young children and their aging parents.
At any given time, there may be more pressure felt from one side or the other. Or you may even feel like you are in a game of "tug-of-war,” where you are getting pulled from one side to the other, back and forth, at various, continuous, and seemingly endless moments. Having full-time obligations in multiple areas of your life can put great demands on the ever-changing progression of life events from the past to the present and into the future. Family, career, church, and community responsibilities.
Life happens, plans change, and demands on your time, energies, mind, body, and spirit are continuous.
At times it may feel like two storms competing for the same air space in the sky. All storms eventually pass on. We just have to hold on until the blue skies return.
The following are some thoughts on my experiences and how they affected every aspect of my life, as one of the Sandwiched Generation.
~ To help you “put the pieces together” you will find pages in this book for you to journal your thoughts, experiences, prayers, regrets, or things you want to say, or wish that you could have said, to yourself, or your loved ones. ~
