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📰 STUCK IN THE MIDDLE NEWS

For those juggling aging parents, growing kids, full-time work—and trying to keep their sanity (and marriage) intact.

ISSUE #181 – May 29, 2025
Subject Line Suggestion: When Everyone Needs You, But You’re Running on Empty

💡 Today’s Insight: You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup

You're doing it all—managing your parents' appointments, your children's activities, work responsibilities, and household tasks. It's easy to neglect your own well-being.

Taking just 10 minutes a day for yourself can have significant benefits. Research indicates that short breaks can improve memory and learning. Read more here.

📚 3 Resources to Support You This Week

1. Self-Care Strategies for the Sandwich Generation
Practical tips to help you manage stress and maintain balance while caring for both children and aging parents. Explore these tips.

2. Understanding the Sandwich Generation
An overview of the challenges faced by those simultaneously caring for children and elderly parents. Learn more.

3. Setting Boundaries Without Guilt
Learn how to set boundaries and decline requests gracefully to protect your time and energy. Discover how.

✅ Tool to Help You Prioritize

Feeling overwhelmed? The What Can I Let Go Of? checklist can assist you in identifying tasks to delegate or postpone, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.

🔗 Download the Checklist

💬 Reflective Question

What's one task you can delegate or postpone this week to lighten your load?

(Feel free to reply with your thoughts—I read every response.)

✅ You're doing better than you think.
See you Monday for Issue #182.

—Brian
Publisher, Stuck in the Middle News

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