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Island Treasures

Alison van Schie

Island Treasures began as a platform for caregivers with its guests sharing their stories to encourage, provide insights, and resources to support those in the midst of caregiving. With over 100 heartfelt episodes, it reminded caregivers they were not alone, as it uplifted voices of wisdom, empowerment, and compassion. In October 2025 Island Treasures enters a new chapter.This relaunched season explores life after caregiving—the transitions, transformations, and moments that follow with former

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00:49:16

Equipping Family Caregivers with Strategies, Tools...

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2023/07/07

Hearing from a friend about the resources and programming offered by Denise M. Brown I knew I had to meet her and check out her Caregiving Consultant programs for myself as I was just starting my own business at the end of my social work career. In the episode you will hear directly from Denise about her own business and its origins, as well as her caregiving story. First, here's a more information about Denise: Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching,

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00:07:07

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: A Caregiver, A Life...

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2023/06/09

In this episode we visit a clip from the full episode entitled "A Caregiver, A Life Coach and A 'Mompreneur'" which features Natalie Hankins (a caregiver, a life coach and a 'mompreneur') where I ask Natalie what her biggest struggle was as a caregiver, an experienced caregiver with 29 years of caregiving experience for her two adult children who have special needs. You'll hear her answer and how she works to solve a specific example - by coaching herself - during the episode. For more from

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00:47:40

A Caregiver, A Life Coach and A 'Mompreneur'

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2023/06/02

Natalie Hankins joins me in this episode to share her caregiving story which spans 29 years and is still continuing. She is a caregiver for her now-adult children; as her son has autism and her daughter has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. Natalie championed through caregiving, finding the therapies that would work best for them including the Relationship Development Intervention by Dr. Steven Gutstein and the Visualizing and Verbalizing, Language Comprehension Program by Lindamood-Bell. She is proud

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00:08:47

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: Rising to the Occasion...

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2023/05/12

In this mini episode there are a few excerpts from the full episode entitled Rising to the Occasion of Caregiving. Toni Gitles shares about her book 21 Mistakes Caregivers Make and How to Avoid Them: Solutions and Strategies to Reduce Stress and Increase Happiness (available September 2023) and the importance of relationship with your loved one, good communication skills, happiness and love to enhance your care giving experience. You can learn more about Toni and her resources on her website

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00:56:37

Rising to the Occasion of Caregiving

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2023/05/05

Toni Gitles, founder and CEO of Caregiver Empowerment, Heart Light Enterprises LLC shares her 14-year caregiving story and provides a continuation of our conversation from her first appearance on the podcast in Season #2 in the episode entitled "And Then I Danced". Toni shares that caring for a family member is a act of love that comes from the heart and she talks about the importance of relationship, communication, happiness and love - all important to help make the experience into a journey

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00:11:41

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: The Hardest Decision

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2023/04/28

This episode addresses a topic that is brought up frequently by caregivers who are facing the decision of placing their loved one into care. They ask how do I know when it is the right time? How do they make this "hardest decision"? Contained within are some nuggets to consider when facing this decision - from the book Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family's Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care, Second Edition, by Peter S. Silin (2009); as well as an excerpt from Season 1

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00:06:08

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: Therapeutic Journaling...

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2023/04/14

This mini version of the Island Treasures Podcast for caregivers contains excerpts from the full-episode "Therapeutic Journaling Through Caregiving" which features Lori Lemasters, author of "You're A Caregiver, Not a Saint: Yeah, Write!" Lori is the founder of Care Partners Resource and Consulting and a certified Journal to the Self ® Therapeutic Writing Instructor and host of the Carethartic Conversations monthly meetings that we speak about in this episode. Lori knows about caregiving

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00:58:32

Therapeutic Journaling through Caregiving

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2023/04/07

Lori Ramos Lemasters shares how she relied on therapeutic writing as one of her coping strategies through her 8-year caregiving journey. Lori was caregiving for her mom who had suffered a massive stroke, and that meant Lori also took on caregiving responsibilities that her mom had been shouldering for Lori's step-dad who was on dialysis for three of those 8 years. And to do this Lori didn't hesitate to relocate to another State away from her own family. Using therapeutic writing, or journaling

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00:08:04

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: Could it be Normal...

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2023/03/10

Tracy Crump shared how she persevered as a strong advocate for her mom when things just didn't seem to fit with being told her mom had dementia. When she recalled a friend's dad's diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), Tracy compared the symptoms he had with what her mom was experiencing and then she armed herself with reliable information to take to the medical professionals and eventually, through testing, her mom was diagnosed with NPH. Within days her symptoms had significantly

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00:54:47

Could it be Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus?

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2023/03/03

Have you heard of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus or N.P.H.? In this episode we hear what it is and how it was the diagnosis long-sought after to provide the answers for Tracy Crump's mother's symptoms. Tracy is a former Intensive Care Nurse, caregiver for her mother, father and then her mother-in-law, and now she is a published author who knew something wasn't making sense when her mother was mis-diagnosed with dementia. Through perseverance and advocacy, Tracy researched, did her homework and

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00:04:36

How Island Treasures Came About

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2023/02/20

On February 17, 2023, the Whole Care Network relaunched with some new additions - and invited contributors (both podcasters and instructors) to join their live event. I was pleased to join the live event - and it got me thinking that I should add a few more nuggets about why/how the Island Treasures podcast originated and how I, as a retired social worker and caregiving consultant, decided to start podcasting. So I created a video that is the content for this bonus episode. I talk briefly

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00:05:03

Island Treasures Mini Podcast: A Flood Amidst Caregiving

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2023/02/10

This mini episode revisits some of the points that Roxane Anderson made in the full episode from lessons she learned through her caregiving experience - caring for her husband and experiencing a flood. The flood was a disaster but hidden within the disaster was an opportunity for her husband to get involved in flood advocacy - providing him with a purpose again. The couple became fierce advocates in addressing the flood situation effecting them and others in their geographical area, all amidst

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00:56:59

A Flood Amidst Caregiving

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2023/02/03

Roxane Anderson is a registered social worker in Canada and published author whose most recent book "Moving the Flood" is a memoir and a promise fulfilled that she had made to her late husband, John. Roxane had found herself taking on more and more caregiving responsibilities as her husband's health worsened; but she had not expected to take on the caregiving role for her husband. They were a team in all aspects of their lives: working to get answers about John's health as well as experiencing

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00:07:09

Island Treasures Mini Podcast - Pharmacists: The Best...

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2023/01/13

In this mini episode you will hear Dr. DeLon Canterbury share how it was a pharmacist who identified that a medication his grandmother was prescribed had been the cause of her mild dementia symptoms intensifying. This message highlights the benefit of having a pharmacist as an advocate for your loved one to help navigate your caregiving journey, in your caregiving support system. For more about DeLon, his story and his services of deprescribing medications be sure to check out his website,

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00:51:05

Pharmacists: The Best Kept Secret

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2023/01/06

Dr. DeLon Canterbury shares his caregiving story of how he and his family cared for his grandmother and how, when her mild dementia symptoms intensified, they needed to facilitate her move from her care home to where they lived. It turned out the changes in her symptoms and behaviours were due to a medication she had been given that had an F.D.A. warning to avoid being given to patients with dementia. And it was a pharmacist who identified this. This is just one example of the work pharmacists

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00:08:11

Island Treasures Mini Podcast - Introducing Joe & Bella

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2022/12/09

Highlights taken from the full-length episode featuring Ben Graham, Vice President of Brand Development and Marketing at Joe & Bella, from the moment the family first meets Joe and Bella and our initial introduction to the people behind the brand of clothing. We hear how the clothing brand was born. When, during the Covid pandemic, out of a need for fashionable and comfortable adaptive clothing Ben's own grandmother set the standard that started the search that led to the inception of

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00:50:53

Introducing Joe & Bella

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2022/12/02

In this episode Ben Graham, Vice President of Brand Development and Marketing at Joe & Bella, tells his caregiving story, which starts with his grandparents no longer being safe in their home. The family moves the grandparents into Assisted Living where they are befriended by fellow-residents of the home - Joe and Bella! Ben, along with his family, provided care for his two grandparents for nearly a decade as they lived in Assisted Living and Memory Care. Having Joe and Bella help with the

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00:06:23

Island Treasures Mini Podcast - Voila! Caregiver

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2022/11/11

As a follow-up to the full-length Island Treasures episode called "Voila! Caregiver" (Episode 22 of Season 3), this mini version includes a couple of excerpts highlighting Debbie Compton's insights: talking with a consultant and taking her mom and her mother-in-law together to an appointment - and how challenging it was to get them ready. Hear all about this and the funny ending to the story and how she was able to conclude it was indeed a victory! Debbie invites caregivers to join her for a

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00:53:59

Voila! Caregiver

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2022/11/04

Debbie Compton is a three-time caregiver for parents with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and vascular dementia. She’s a Certified Caregiving Consultant, Certified Caregiver Advocate, keynote speaker, and author of 6 books geared toward caregivers and seniors. Debbie has been a Community Educator for the Alzheimer’s Association since 2017 and is the founder of The Purple Vine, an organization created to spread awareness about all forms of dementia. Her mission is to empower caregivers with the

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Island Treasures Mini Podcast - The Unplanned Journey...

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2022/10/14

Mrs. Kelly (played by Breeda Miller) appears for a cameo performance in an excerpt from the 2 act, one-woman play "Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home". Breeda found she was in the sandwich generation of caregivers when she started to provide care for her mother who had vascular dementia and quickly had to learn how to make it through each day on this unplanned journey. She admits there was a lot about caregiving that she didn't know but knowing that she loved her mom she quickly learned what she needed

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