This episode of Bookable Space is a little different. In this episode we’re joined by Susan Stasiask. Susan reads from To Die For: The book is not yet published. Susan will be reading from the manuscript and talking to us about caring for ourselves while caring for the ones we love, the choice to shift how we define beauty, and challenging societal norms of how we care and how we choose to care.
About the Author
Our guest today is Susan Stasiak (STAY si ak), who was a 7-year, hands-on dementia caregiver for her late life partner, Chuck. Susan’s twenty years of practice to improve workplace performance as an organizational development consultant and speaker was applied to her caregiving challenges.
In 2019, she launched an author platform, “Caring for the Caregiver’s Mind,” featuring articles, webinars, podcasts, and speeches, to reduce the stress of caregivers and address their mental well-being. Susan suggests that we can eliminate much of our caregiving stress if we use our minds instead of letting our minds use us.
Susan is writing a book for caregivers, with the working title of- To Die For: How One Dementia Caregiver Saves Her Sanity and Finds What To Live For.
About the host
Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, and podcaster. Her debut, Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Winner of The Shirley Jackson Award, Curdle Creek is her second novel. Yvonne was a finalist in the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Zora Award for Fiction, has been awarded the RSL Scriptorium Award, and lives in West Yorkshire, England. She aims to create a literary community bringing readers and writers together over words.
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