Sometimes the healing can’t begin until the crisis ends Two years ago, I finally broke down. I was coaching a client recently about caregiving—the physical toll of constant vigilance, the mental exhaustion of never being off duty. As she described the moment she realized she was disappearing into the caregiving role, and then the moment she decided to reclaim herself, I was pulled into my own story. I hadn’t thought of myself as a “caregiver”—just a mom and wife doing