Katie Hargreaves Tips for Carers

Katie Hargreaves

• Take this day by day.

• Recovery is a long process, and it can feel like you are going back as much as forwards but have trust and faith in yourself as a carer and trust and faith in your child.

• I wish I had not panicked as much on those bad days but focused more on the good. We decided to look for ‘glimmers’ each day something good in every day, however small. At the start of recovery, we had to see this as an opportunity to do new things. We tried new sports; we joined new clubs all to support.

• Remember that your child in recovery is not the same child who was so poorly. They have so much more resilience and strength now and have gone something so hard and have shown such courage that we must remember and see how much they have changed.

‘Take this day by day’