Event: Inclusive Caregiving - Rise by Lifting Others | Online Event |
Speaker: Margaret Ong
Date: 21 MAR Tue
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm *GMT + 8hrs
VENUE: ALBY Events via online ZOOM Video
Fee: $11 or
$25 (includes Margaret's book ONE HUSBAND TWO MEN worth $18.30)
$27 (includes Margaret's book STILL MY HUSBAND worth $20.20)
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Caregiving is about holding space and inclusiveness for your loved ones.
Join Margaret for an insightful sharing on:
-Making your home stigma free,
-Earnestly celebrate progress of your loved ones,
-Empathize not sympathize and
-Communicate creatively.About the speaker
Margaret Ong had a very successful career in the IT industry. All these have to give way when she chose to be the primary caregiver to her husband who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 14 years ago.
She and her family, two young boys then, were very traumatized by this sudden mishap. It took them quite some time to finally come to terms with his condition and what he was experiencing.
Author of the two books, “One Husband, Two Men” and “Still My Husband”, Margaret shared her journey as a wife of a man who suffered from schizophrenia. This difficult journey did not bring her down, instead, she grew stronger and more spiritual. With a bigger heart and wanting to create awareness of mental health and caregiving, she volunteers to be a caregiver leader and a trainer with two local NGOs; Caregivers Alliance and Caring For Life. She also takes on opportunities to go on air, shows, interviews, and talks to create more awareness and to remove the stigma on mental illnesses.