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Tara Jacobsen

  • 10 Tips For When You Move Your Dementia Mom In With You... If you are considering moving your Alzheimers or Dementia parent into your home, there are some serious things you should consider first! Tips and ideas for things to think about from when we moved Mom in with us.  #dementia #alzheimers #dementiacaregiver
    13 Tips For When You Move Your Dementia Mom In With You
  • Essential Oils For Cold Sores… Essential oils are great to use on your lip at the first tingle from a cold sore! This treatment for herpes or can help reduce the time it takes for cold sores to run their course. A healthy remedy for fever blisters.
    How To Use Essential Oils For Cold Sores
  • Should You Get Your Elder Dementia Parent A Cat or a Dog... As an Alzheimer or dementia caregiver it is tempting to think that getting your loved one a companion pet might make them happier. Let's talk about the struggles and help that having a dog or a cat for your elderly parent can bring! #dementia #alzheimer
    Should You Get Your Dementia Parent A Cat or a Dog
  • Essential Oils for Joint Pain.... Whether you are suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), shoulder pain, knee pain or other joint ailments, using essential oils as a supplement to your doctor prescribed medications is a great idea! Here are my top tips for using essential oils for pain. #essentialoils
    Essential Oils for Joint Pain
  • Why Do Dementia and Alzheimers People Make Up Stories? Today we are going talk about confabulation, delusions and hallucinations in dementia and Alzheimers and why our loved ones lie. PLUS tips and ideas for how to protect them and ourselves as caregivers when these stories get out of control.  #alzheimers #dementia
    Why Do Dementia and Alzheimers People Make Up Stories?
  • 5 Tips To Cope With Answering The Same Questions Over and Over - Dealing With Dementia Symptoms... One of the most annoying Alzheimer and dementia symptoms is your loved one asking repetitive questions. Here are 5 helpful ways we have found to keep our sanity as a family and make Mom feel less anxious!
    5 Tips To Cope With Answering The Same Questions Over and Over - Dealing With Dementia Symptoms
  • Dryer Balls and Essential Oils (Scent Suggestions Included!) You may wonder why use dryer balls and scents instead of chemical dryer sheets or smelly laundry soap! I like to put essential oils on mine to make them smell better. Here are my best tips and ideas for using dryer balls as part of your natural living routine.
    Dryer Balls and Essential Oils (Scent Suggestions Included!)
  • Fun Things To Do In Colorado When You Come To Visit… Travel tips and ideas including the Rocky Mountains and hiking, dining and shopping, road trips and adventure. Features top cities and national parks sites to visit. Good for adults and families on vacation.
    Fun Things To Do In Colorado When You Go To Visit
  • Honest Review of Instant Family By Mom of 3 Adopted Foster Children... Here is my honest review about what Instant Family got right and wrong about adopting from the foster care system! For sure I will be covering themes of adoption, but also trauma, loss and joy.
    Honest Review of Instant Family By Mom of 3 Adopted Foster Children
  • 7 Free Creative Collage Sheet Printables For Decoupage Tissue Paper
    7 Free Creative Collage Sheet Printables For Decoupage Tissue Paper
  • Is your elderly Mom acting nutso? A caregivers story about some of the symptoms and causes of my Mom's UTI. Includes signs we saw and how it got so severe that she was hospitalized and we had to put her in a nursing home for a couple of weeks! If you are minding an elderly woman who is acting weird, get some help! #caregiver #elderly
    Memory Loss In Your Elderly Mom? Check UTI First!
  • 5 Tips For When You Are Trying To Adopt Older Foster Kids... About 7 years ago my husband and I decided to adopt foster children (well really just one) through the foster care system. The process took over 2 years and a lot of heartbreak, but we wound up with 3 amazing kids! Here are my tips, truths and ideas for shortening up that process and making it much easier. 
    5 Tips For When You Are Trying To Adopt Older Foster Kids
  • 5 Products That Helped Our Old Dog With Itchy Paws
  • Pictures of Pets
    25 Fun Nursing Home Gift Ideas For Women (That Are Not Food)
  • What The Hell Is Wet Brain? Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome or Alcohol-Related Brain Damage... Wet brain is an old world term for Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome. It is also called ARBD (Alcohol-Related Brain Damage) or even Alcohol Dementia (even thought it seems not to be "officially" Dementia as far as I can figure out!)
    Caregiver Tips For Wet Brain (Alcohol Related Dementia)
  • 6 Must Have Products For Elderly Caregivers Dealing With Poop | Elderly Fecal Incontinence
    6 Products For Elderly Caregivers Cleaning Up Poop At Home
  • My morning routine as a caregiver. I have always been a routine gal, but now what my mother-in-law with Alzheimer's has moved in, we are even more regimented than ever! Wrangling kids, cats, dogs and Mom makes for fun time in the morning. Includes tips and ideas for setting up your morning routine!
    My Morning Routine As A Dementia Caregiver
  • How To Use Essential Oils In Body Butters -
    How To Use Essential Oils In Body Butters
  • Styling Your Shirt 6 Different Ways - Dressing Over 50... So many of the style guides are made for gals who are much less curvy than me. Learning to dress myself, I like to try and find different ways to style my clothes in ways that make me look skinnier. Some of the "common wisdom" about what looks good (everyone says belts!) may be wrong on my body and maybe yours!
    Styling Your Shirt 6 Different Ways - Fashion Over 50
  • 3 Essential Oils DIY Pillow Spray Recipes - My favorite essentials oils to help you sleep and have sweet dreams. Includes lavender and some other tips and ideas that might surprise you!
    3 Fun Essential Oils Pillow Spray Recipes To Help You Sleep Like A Baby
  • Dressing Over 50 - Is It Worth Getting Dressed Just For You ... As an over 50 woman, I tackle many hard questions, but some of the worst are, is it worth it to do something "just for me". Is dressing over 50 a thing that makes sense, should I devote time to self care or do things for everyone else? Here are some of my best tips for dressing over 50!
    Is It Worth Getting Dressed "Just For You"
  • How To Find Clothes That Fit Over 50...5 ways to find out what kinds of clothes you should wear. Whether you have been struggling for years or just want to update your wardrobe, here are some tips and ideas to get you start on your 50 not frumpy outfits!
    How To Find Clothes That Fit Over 50
  • Why are there so many "rules" for dressing over 50? If you are in your 50s or 60s, you might have figured out that everyone has "rules" for how you should dress. Find out my 5 rules for style and fashion over 50 (you will be happy with them!) Skip the frumpy, elderly advice and start wearing what looks good on you!
    Why Are There So Many "Rules" For Dressing Over 50?
  • Essential Oils For ADHD Kids - A Healthy Way To Help... Tips, Ideas and Recipes for how to make roller balls and sprays to help with concentration and focus.
    Essential Oils For ADHD Kids... A Natural Way To Help
  • Don't Wait To Get Skinny, Find Outfits That Look Good On Your Body Now! I have been struggling with body positivity now that I am over 50. Being a curvy woman, it is easy to think that I should be using frumpy clothes to cover my fat body. An over 50 shorts outfit and article about how to love yourself and the body you are in now.
    Don't Wait To Get Skinny, Find Outfits That Look Good On Your Body Now!
  • Dress Yourself Using The DISC Personality Type
    How To Dress Your DISC Personality Type!
  • Liz Gilbert is my spirit animal! Okay, now that we have that right out front, I can tell you why she makes my Wonder Women list... Functionally, this may be the one book ever written just for me! It covers all kinds of practical creative things like fear (funny that is the first thing that comes to mind when I think about being creative!)
    Elizabeth Gilbert, My Personal Creative Wonder Woman!
  • Fight Chronic Inflammation With Essential Oils - Essential Oils for chronic inflammation and pain relief. Whether you have back pain, arthritis or neck aches, essential oils can help relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. A great natural pain reliever. #essentialoils #chronicpain
    How To Fight Chronic Inflammation With Essential Oils
  • 5 Fun Work From Home Office Ideas... Over the years I have found some things that I absolutely love about my home office (lots of cabinet space or bookshelves) and some things that are "common wisdom" organizing ideas that I hate like getting drawers for filing doesn't work for me because I am visual.
    5 Fun Work From Home Office Ideas
  • What Are Carrier Oils? – How To Use Essential Oils For Beginners… If you’re new to essential oils, you may be wondering about some of the terminology. One of the big ones you will see are carrier oils.
    What Are Carrier Oils? - How To Use Essential Oils For Beginners
  • DIY Storage Ideas For Organizing – Decoupage Boxes… A walkthrough of my decoupage box project. From bare boxes to beautifully styled storage for my small spaces home office!
    DIY Storage Ideas For Organizing - Decoupage Boxes
  • Why do women watch, listen and read so much true crime? Is it to keep the boogey man at bay or to prepare themselves so if it happens to them they will a little more prepared?
    Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff of My Favorite Murder, Wonder Women
  • You Can Be Creative Too! ... Today I want to talk about what being creative means! Some people seem to know about creativity from a young age... they decide that they are going to be an artist, writer, dancer or anything else they want to be early on and their parents and the world seem to conspire to make it happen.
    You Can Be Creative Too | Creative Inspiration Ideas
  • Cats and Essential Oils Just Do Not Mix ... It is super important to remember that oils can be toxic to felines. While there are a few safe ones, most can’t be safely used in a diffuser or spray. Here are my top safety tips and ideas for natural living with cats!
    Warning! Essential Oil Diffusers Are Harmful To Cats
  • Willowing Arts, Tamara Laporte - Mixed Media Artist and Wonder Woman She has site is called Willowing Arts where she has all kinds of great information about mixed media art. Her artwork is always very whimsical, soft and gentle.
    Willowing Arts, Tamara Laporte - Mixed Media Artist and Wonder Woman
  • My favorite DIY essential oils recipes for mosquitoes repellent and bug bites spray! I use mine in a roller ball but you could do a spray bottle if you don’t like to roll on. Get relief for your kids the natural way! #essentialoils
    Essential Oils For Mosquito Repellent and Bug Bites
  • Are You Ready To Be Creative? .... YAY! I am so glad you found us! We are a wild band of creative women who are not afraid to say it is time for us to start making a difference.
    Are You Ready To Be Creative?
  • How To Use Essential Oils In Your Shampoo
    Making Your Own Essential Oils Shampoo? Everything You Need To Know To Get Started!
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