The 8 Steps

Caring for and healing a child with Lyme disease

1. Make a Self-Care Plan
2. Build a Support Network
3. Define Healing
4. Create a Supportive Environment
5. Collaborate
6. Change Your Expectations
7. Open Your Mind
8. Adjust Your Lifestyle

“dimensions of the experience of illness or disability are often referred to as “caregiving” or the “burden of care”. The phrase “Work of Care” specifies the physical and mental efforts of specific tasks in which parents engage, while avoiding …. the negative and potentially biased emotive connotations of “burden” (p.5). —Hexem Et Al., (2011) Noted