How to care for your aging parents.
As a family. 

You didn’t see this mission coming. But your parents need you now. Like you once needed them. Wondering how to navigate this journey with your siblings and family?

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Blindsided by the needs of your parents
as you juggle everything else?

  • Family conflict and overwhelm as you help your aging parents

  • Burdened by the immensity of care decisions

  • Saddened to watch them decline

  • Stressed by competing demands for your time

  • Examining your own life as you walk through their twilight

  • Wrestling with guilt over too many demands and too little time

  • Need a roadmap to navigate the pain and pitfalls of this challenging season

Smiling Leslie McLeod

Nurturing family relationships as you help your aging parents.

Empowering you to care for your heart and strengthen connections with your family that will linger and thrive through the caregiving season and beyond.

Leslie and her family faced a short but intense time of caring for their mother and father, dealing with painfully common issues including mental and physical decline, driving, hired helpers, sibling dynamics, relocation, financial scams, and more. She and her siblings managed as well as they could with no precedent or playbook, coalescing into a team with their own adult children remarkably well. Except when they didn’t. Now, her warm and engaging voice of empathy and experience joins with that of dozens of others whom she’s interviewed. She’ll provide resources, support, and a listening ear to help you chart your course through the caregiving journey and beyond with clarity and confidence. 

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When failure is a gift
When failure is a gift

You’re on stage speaking. Suddenly, you forget where you are. Not just your next lines: you literally forget what planet you’re on. It’s everyone’s worst nightmare. So how could this fail become a gift?

The perfect moment
The perfect moment

My sister-in-law had visited us at Christmastime, and Mom had welcomed her with a warm, cranberry-scented embrace like another daughter.

Micro Friends
Micro Friends

Some friendships last a lifetime. Others, just a short season. Though brief, micro-friendships are like tiny pearls in a necklace, lovely and complete.

Is This Normal Aging?
Is This Normal Aging?

Mom’s getting more forgetful than usual. Dad’s making decisions that are irrational, even for him. Both of them seem a little…off.

One Hundred Steps
One Hundred Steps

“Social media” can happen right outside your front door. Take a walk and see what gifts are waiting to be given and received.

A Dog in the Nest
A Dog in the Nest

Who do you nurture when your parenting nest is empty? The dog, of course.

When aging parents are just too thrifty
When aging parents are just too thrifty

Your aging parents are super cheap. Beyond simply frugal or thrifty, they refuse to spend money on anything.

Whose heart?
Whose heart?

I hear my strong heartbeat during a medical test and I am so grateful. But I wonder...whose heart is it really?

Hope by the Numbers
Hope by the Numbers

Some neighborhood boys painting curb numbers renewed my hope.

Army of Tiny Frustrations
Army of Tiny Frustrations

Tiny frustrations feel like an army of red ants?

  • "Beautifully written, this brought me to tears."

  • "There are so many things we would have done differently. I wish we’d had someone to talk to.”

  • "Thank you for putting into words what I could not."

  • "Your understanding of grief and your ability to express it continue to help me heal."

  • "What a beautiful story!"

  • "Thank you for sharing this. A great reminder for me to see beyond what's on the surface."

  • "I really needed this. Our family is being hit hard with my father’s recent passing and my mother's dementia diagnosis. Thank you, Leslie."

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