Event: Caregiver, Is your Love Resilient? | Online Event |
Speaker: Margaret Ong
Date: 13 APR Thu
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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Caregivers, "Is your love resilient?"
The most painful thing in caregiving is giving up your individuality in the process of loving the one you cared for so much.
Differentiation helps to develop a secure way of relating to our loved ones. In order to maintain a stable and healthy caregiving relationship, one must establish ongoing independence whilst simultaneously welcoming an emotional connection with another person.
Acknowledge the change in your loved one and accept their differences instead of trying to fix them. Topics covered include:
- When love goes dark
- Moving past caregiver denial
- Does love last forever
- Moving forward after a lossAbout 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.