Caring for aging parents is a path almost all of us walk at some point. Today is a Special Guest Episode with Dr. Mary Norman, a wise and experienced geriatrician, who has a newfound passion to bring mindfulness to caregivers of those with dementia. In today's episode, we share how mindfulness can help smooth the journey of caring for aging parents. Mindfulness enhances your ability to adapt and bounce back in the face of stress. It helps you recognize your stress response so you can pause and then intervene with calmness. Mindfulness helps you go from a place of frustration, fear, anger, grief, and isolation to gratitude, patience, peace, laughter, and joy. A few of the mindful ideas and approaches to caring for your aging parents offered in this episode: Harm mitigation Meeting our aging parents where they are - even if we as medical providers know "what might be better for them." Being willing to “walk this path” with our parents. How to detach from a place of love and recognize that neutrality is sometimes the best “caring.” Caring for aging parents and walking "with them" is especially challenging for physicians. Our medical knowledge, and our common underlying tendencies to fix, manage and control as much as possible, mixed with intense love, make it especially exhausting and tension-filled. As you will discover when you listen, Dr. Mary and Jessie were classmates at UCSF and are longtime close friends. We are delighted to share that we have decided to come together to offer small-group mindful coaching, education, and mindfulness for physicians who want to smooth the journey of caring for aging parents. It will begin later this year. In 2024, we will offer a Caring with Grace retreat CME retreat. Sign up to be on the Pause & Presence mailing list to be notified when these offerings will open for registration. Spaces will be limited www.jessiemahoneymd.com/newsletter. YOu can email Jessie directly to be placed on the waiting list at jessie@jessiemahoneymd.com. If you can’t wait till, 1:1 mindful coaching can help you traverse this journey with much more ease- starting right now.. Find out more here and set up a time to chat here: https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/work-with-me Learn more about Just This Moment at https://www.drmarynorman.com/ Connect with Dr. Mary Norman at:  mary@drmarynorman.com. *reminder nothing in this episode is medical advice.