ENLIGHTENED CAREGIVING
FOR MEN WHO CARE

How To Transform Recoveries Into Self-Discoveries Without Getting Overwhelmed


There is a far-reaching, fundamental, non-obvious opportunity of a lifetime enfolded in the family caregiving journey when it gets intense.

It is the opportunity to test your mettle and discover who you really are: A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. This transcends all considerations of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status. It is an opportunity to gain the certainty of your personal power to triumph over ANY potentially overwhelming life condition. Enlightened Caregiving is the opportunity for self-realization, and the OPPORTUNITY TO EVOLVE AS A LEADER.

The Enlightened Caregiving leadership model recognizes and empowers BOTH caregiver and care recipient as independent sources of inspiration for each other, an EQUAL PARTNERSHIP. Systematically harnessing the transformational power of MUTUAL INSPIRATION can radically reduce the high cost of caregiver overwhelm and accelerate the recovery process when functional independence is a possibility. 

As your caregiving brother, I encourage you to embrace the intensity of your rehabilitative caregiving journey, instead of resisting it. I will show you how to reframe your experience as an opportunity of a lifetime by attaining and maintaining a worldview of unstoppable optimism.

If you decide to pursue the leadership role of Enlightened Caregiving and optimum self-care (and the emotional independence it provides) as your personal purpose during your journey, instead of falling into the self-sacrifice trap of being a hero or martyr, accelerated self-discovery will be your inevitable outcome. That is the promise, the ultimate payoff of Enlightened Caregiving for you.

By following this path you will avoid the pitfalls of caregiver overwhelm. Only then will you be able to truly care for your loved one and succeed in your mission of activating hope, during critical year one of their recovery, to attain their own functional independence, needing zero or minimum help.

—Ron Seigel, Author


TEST IT OUT FOR YOURSELF!

Here is a demonstration from Chapter 4 - The Secret of Mood Mastery: How to Defy Gravity. This is a complimentary video that explains your primary leadership challenge as an Enlightened Caregiver: achieving and maintaining a mindset of unstoppable optimism which is accomplished by leveraging your Power to Shift Perspectives. Test it out, you can do this! Narrated by the author, Ron Seigel.

Watch the Video Above


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART 1
GET RADICAL, MAN!

Chapter 1 The Radical New Leadership Paradigm Of Enlightened Caregiving
Chapter 2 How To Overcome Overwhelm: The Road Map

PART 2

THE SECRETS OF ACHIEVING UNSTOPPABLE OPTIMISM

Chapter 3 The Secret of Total Acceptance:
How to Set the Stage for Accelerated Self-Discovery

Chapter 4 The Secret of Mood Mastery:
How to Defy Gravity

Chapter 5 The Secret of Getting & Keeping Your Life-support Systems in Place:
How to Cultivate "Bouncebackability"

PART 3

HARNESSING THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF MUTUAL INSPIRATION

Chapter 6 The Extraordinary Dynamics of Mutual Inspiration
Chapter 7 Gamifying Recoveries

PART 4

PLAYING IT FORWARD

Chapter 8 The Epiphany & The Pivotable Breakthrough
Chapter 9 The Moonshot Mission: Operation Stroke Care
Chapter 10 Orchestrating Maximum Alignment of Purpose

About the Author

Ron Seigel is a serial entrepreneur, an inventor of a digital advertising methodology in travel commerce, and an author. In the 1970s he and his wife, Alexandra, taught over one hundred weekend courses on teamwork and relationships that were accredited as continuing education in psychology at UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco.

They provided thousands of hours of personal and professional coaching for private clients and developed a coaching training program, based on their proprietary methodology, for a major international personal development firm.

In the 80s and 90s, the Seigels owned a commercial real estate firm in Beverly Hills, specializing in sales and leasing for the high-end retail and entertainment industry sectors.

They then emerged in the new millennium as the leading brand strategists in the luxury real estate industry, working internationally with developers, professionals, and independent firms who were bent on becoming market leaders.

When Alexandra had a stroke in 2022, Ron completely refocused their marketing consulting firm, Napa Consultants, International, in the field of health and wellness and launched a moonshot mission to radically reduce the high cost of caregiver overwhelm as a health issue and its side effects on businesses and taxpayers.