Caregiving involves caring for others, giving our time, pushing ourselves to the limit, advocating, learning and loving.
Many times it also involves sharing.
Five caregivers, Pegi Foulkrod, Gincy Heins, Trish Hughes Kreis, Richard Kries and Kathy Lowrey got together and decided to share their collective wisdom with other caregivers. We all started, knowing just about nothing about caregiving but we learned “on the job” and by talking, laughing, crying and sharing with each other.
365 Caregiving Tips: Practical Tips from Everyday Caregivers is the beginning of a series of books created with the intent of helping others through their caregiving journey. The tips are practical because as caregivers, we have to be practical. We have to make the most of our limited time, money and energy and these tips are designed with those limited resources in mind.
Listen in and learn how Pegi Gincy, Tirsh, Richard and Kathy are creating Healing Ties all around us!
Chris MacLellan, The Bow Tie Guy, is the host of Healing Ties and the author of "What's The Deal With Caregiving"
To learn more about Chris visit www.thebowtieguy.com
Healing Ties is apart of the Whole Care Network, INC
Healing Ties
Beyond Caregiving...How do care?
How do we care for our family, friends, and the strangers we meet? How do we care for the community we live in?
How do we heal the physical, social, financial, spiritual aspects of our life and the lives of those around us?
We do this by creating Healing Ties!
By sharing their stories with host Christopher MacLellan, our guests reveal how they are creating Healing Ties in their community by their words, actions, and deeds.
Meet the Team
Affectionately known as “The Bow Tie Guy" in the vast network of family caregivers, Christopher MacLellen is the Author of "What's The Deal with Caregiving" and the host of Healing Ties podcast featured on The Whole Care Network.
The story of Chris and his deceased partner, Richard Schiffer was chronicled in a 2015 Pulitzer Prize nominated story “In Sickness and In Health: A Couple’s Final Journey” about their journey of caregiving. Seen by over 500,000 people world-wide the story told of the challenges that LGBT partners have in dealing with the medical and legal system, but it also told of the love and joy that Richard’s last years had on their relationship.
Chris' masters degree thesis, Caregiving, Stress and its Impact on the Work Place was accepted by the faculty at Gonzaga University in 2016 where he earned a masters degree in Leadership and Communication.
Chris founded the Whole Care Network in 2016, presents regularly on topics that impact family Caregivers and now is Aging Gayfully after caregiving has ended.