{"id":5864,"date":"2026-01-15T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:05:41","slug":"the-successful-caregiver-a-conversation-with-lawanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/the-successful-caregiver-a-conversation-with-lawanda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Successful Caregiver: A Conversation with LaWanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Family caregiving is not always something that we sign up for. But given the challenge, you need to know that you can make it. These conversations highlight individuals who have persevered through and flourished as they cared for their loved ones. You don&#8217;t have to be perfect, but you have to continue to move forward.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first conversation is with Ms LaWanda Allen. LaWanda is a licensed massage therapist and an educator at Concorde Career College. Ms Allen has been a family caregiver since 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet LaWanda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Successful Caregiver Series: A Conversation with LaWanda\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyTs1pwzEL8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family caregiving is not always something that we sign up for. But given the challenge, you need to know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caregiving","category-new"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG20240918120001-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janice-williams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}