Many Colorado families have a similar story to the Janson family.
Having time to reconnect makes us stronger, better parents to our kids.” “Caring for a child with special needs can be really difficult on any marriage. She and her husband often use respite to attend marriage counseling and enjoy a meal together. “The time away allows us to get healthy, recharge and reenergize ourselves for our family,” said Janson. These programs are invaluable for parents who need a break, but also want to know their children are being cared for in a nurturing and fun environment. Her family received a respite voucher from the Colorado Respite Coalition, a program of Easterseals Colorado, and they now participate in a variety of community programs focused on respite and support. Today, after years of living with the stress of being a mother of three and juggling the challenges of caring for a baby with Down Syndrome, Janson is finally getting some relief. Like many parents, Janson was hesitant to put the care of her child into the hands of someone else. Being away from our son for even two hours felt impossible.” “When I first applied, I was so nervous because no one had ever watched Gabriel before. “I didn’t even know what respite care was until someone suggested it,” said Janson. An overwhelming majority of caregivers say they would like more information to help them personally with their caregiving duties, but they don’t always know where to begin.
Caregivers are highly likely to put the needs of the individual they care for before their own well-being, taking a toll on their health both emotionally and physically. You try to take it all on as a family and quickly realize you just can’t.”Īccording to AARP, there are an estimated 584,000 caregivers in Colorado who provide physical and/or emotional care for a loved one with special healthcare needs. “We never expected to be in this situation. “Early on, we really just felt shocked,” said Janson. New to Colorado and without a strong support network at the time, Gabriel and his family struggled immensely as he was in and out of the hospital for the early part of his life. This always happens when consciousness takes on too many unconscious contents upon itself and loses the faculty of discrimination, the sine qua non of all consciousness.Marie Janson faced one of every parent’s biggest fears when her son, Gabriel, was born with Down Syndrome in 2016. “Paradoxically enough, inflation is a regression of consciousness into unconsciousness. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.’ It us hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It us incapable of learning from the past, incapable of learning from contemporary events, and incapable if drawing right conclusions about the future. ‘An inflated ego is always ego-centric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. “If the ego rejects that conflict, then the soul is contaminated by the ego’s desire for more and more power or wealth or happiness. ‘To meet one’s eternal and insoluble conflict is to meet God, which would be the end of the ego with all its blather.’ ‘The only way the Self can manifest is through conflict,’ writes Marie Louise Von Franz. That recognition relativizes the ego in the psychic structure, and initiates a dialogue between conscious and unconscious. “The goal of human striving in the individuation process is the recognition of the Self, the regulating centre of the psyche.
This quote has travelled with me for some time now and it’s beginning to make some sense! Jung believed the only way forward is to meet the nature of our own wall or conflict. With no clear transparent values, how can we have a perspective on the real needs of the planet? And without an open clear view from the outside, from another person or culture, what’s to stop us just whitewashing these old walls we’ve labelled ‘good’ to keep out the ‘bad’ and history repeating itself again? And so many of our sufferings come down to the walls we build being made of old material we no longer need, but we keep maintaining them because the views they block out at some point have made us safe or important or whatever.
And glad to have a zen shot of me painting this wall! It’s the characteristic lime-wash you see all over Greece, and also has been quite a meditation that got me thinking how a clear boundary, like what comes uncontaminated from deep in the heart, allows an opening to what is growing boundless and free. Work camp ending at Anilio before our Yoga, Writing & Art begins today.
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