Sue Ryan has taken on the role of caregiver nearly a dozen times in her life. Throughout her experience, she’s learned lessons that challenged her beliefs, tested her character and developed her resilience.

As a speaker and coach, Sue helps guide other caregivers on confidently navigating their caregiving journey. In this episode, we covered the challenges facing a family caregiver in addition to key tools that can help you navigate through some of life’s biggest transitions.

Having been a non-professional caregiver for family and loved ones for more than thirty-five years, Sue Ryan created The Caregiver’s Journey to walk caregivers through the various phases of their caregiving journey. How do we successfully manage all of the changes and transitions that happen when we step into the role of caregiver?

For the past thirty-five years Sue Ryan has been helping individuals – from entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 C-Suite leaders – serving more than 700 organizations of all sizes and in a multitude of industries – successfully navigate transitions in their businesses through her roles in enterprise application software sales. In parallel with Sue’s professional career, she’s been navigating roles of non-professional caregiving support for family and loved ones. She now navigates her caregiving journey positively, practicing massive acceptance and radical presence. She feels supported and balanced throughout all the transitions in her caregiving journey.

This episode features an interview with Susan Ryan, author of the book Our Journey of Love: 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey. Susan discusses several of the major themes, such as massive acceptance & radical presence, in her book and how to practically apply them to one’s caregiver experience.