Caregiver Stress? An Honest Look at the Challenges Caregivers Face: Mothering Mother Virtual Book Tour & Contest

    /24-7PressRelease/ - FERNANDINA BEACH, FL, September 09, 2007 - On her virtual book tour, Carol D. O'Dell, author of MOTHERING MOTHER: A Daughter's HUMOROUS AND HEARTBREAKING MEMOIR offers insights and strategies on how to not only survive but thrive as a caregiver.

Carol will read excerpts from her book Mothering Mother, accept interviews, answer questions, and lead a candid discussion on the fears and frustrations of the importance of caregiving in our society and how caregiving affects our relationships, lives, and perceptions.

Visit www.mothering-mother.com to see the complete list of participating sites.

Enter her contest by visiting her website or participating on one of her Virtual Book Tour stops to win dozens of prizes--a winner every day.

Key topics covered on the virtual book tour will include:
• Will Caregiving Cost Me My Job?
• Have You Lost Your Joy? The Toll of Caregiving and How to "You" Back
• We're Not Connecting: Building a Bridge Between the Medical Community, Caregivers, and their Families
• Can Mom Still Live Alone? Living Transitions: Knowing When To Change
• A Coach for the Caregiver: Living Your Dreams While Caring for Others
• If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother: Loving the Difficult Family Member

Booklist Review reports that Mothering Mother is a "Beautiful rendering of a difficult but all-too-common situation, told with plenty of humor...and much love."

Dr. Barry Baines of Barry K. Baines, MD., Hospice Director and Author of Ethical Wills says, "Mothering Mother documents the daily love, doubts, ambivalence, guilt, grief, and small triumphs that accompany caregiving. Those of us in the Baby-boomer generation will resonate with the emotional roller coaster that many of us have or are currently experiencing, or fear having to face with our own aging parents."

About Carol D. O'Dell:
Carol D. O'Dell's passion is to tell stories and through stories to teach, offer insights, comfort and guide. She is a national speaker, teacher and author. Her writing has been described as "full of magic and wonder" and moments of offered grace."

Her fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in such publications as Voices of Alzheimer's, Atlanta Magazine, Southern Revival, Mature Matters and AIM, America's Interracial Magazine. She is the health editor for Hot Psychology Magazine and a graduate of Jacksonville University.

Carol D. O'Dell has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs and is a requested speaker on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, caregiving, hospice, family dynamics, writing and women's issues at conferences around the country. Audience members find Carol to be a passionate and captivating speaker with a compelling message, delivered with southern flair, surprising humor and poignant drama.

Contact:
Carol D. O'Dell
904-403-2186
[email protected]

Website: http://www.mothering-mother.com

Mothering Mother by Carol D. O'Dell is available on Amazon and in most major bookstores.

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