A caregiver burnout workbook for people caring for children, parents, partners, family members, or loved ones. Covers depletion, capacity, body red flags, in-the-moment skills, guilt, resentment, grief, asking for help, and building a more sustainable caregiving practice.
Still Standing is designed for caregivers who are carrying the visible and invisible load of caring for someone else. This may include caring for a parent, child, partner, sibling, medically complex loved one, aging family member, or someone whose needs have changed over time. The workbook helps caregivers name burnout, notice red and yellow capacity signals, practice fast regulation tools, ask for help, lower impossible standards, and grieve what caregiving has changed.
Want more support around health, grief, or chronic stress? Pair this with Big Goodbyes: Adult Edition, When the Body Changes the Rules, or the free Daily Stabilizers handout.
CAREGIVER BURNOUT WORKBOOK
This workbook helps caregivers understand what caregiving costs, read their body’s capacity signals, use in-the-moment skills, and build a more sustainable way to keep showing up without disappearing from their own life.
You are not broken. You are depleted.
You Are Not Broken, You Are Depleted
Names caregiver burnout as depletion, not personal failure, and helps caregivers identify exhaustion, resentment, numbness, guilt, brain fog, and irritability.
Knowing Your Capacity
Helps caregivers read body red flags before collapse using yellow-light and red-light signals.
In-the-Moment Skills
Includes fast tools like the physiological sigh, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, the 90-second rule, sensory anchors, and micro-rests.
Preserving Yourself Is Not Abandoning Them
Reframes self-preservation as part of sustainable caregiving, not evidence of selfishness or lack of love.
Building a Sustainable Practice
Guides caregivers through asking for help, lowering the bar, noticing impossible standards, and making space for grief.
This workbook is a psychoeducational caregiver burnout resource and is not a substitute for therapy, medical care, respite care, crisis care, safety planning, or individualized clinical support. If you are experiencing persistent depressive symptoms, thoughts of self-harm, thoughts of harming someone else, or a sense that you cannot keep going, contact a licensed professional or crisis support immediately.