EP 102 :: Caregivers’ Encouraging Stories :: Keisha Jackson
Bobbi & Mike talk with Keisha Jackson, Founder of Encouraging Stories, a collaborative space where caregivers, carees, and creative artists find community through expressing “emotion as art.” As a caregiver for her mother and brother, Keisha experienced the joys and sorrows of caregiving and found healing through storytelling, music, and poetry and sharing these creative expressions with others.
After her mother passed away, Keisha found that “connecting with others who understood my faith, pain, frustrations, humor... was therapeutic. We'd laugh, pray, cry, pray, embrace, pray. We'd nod in agreement and finish each other's sentences”.
Keisha Jackson is a retired Air Force veteran, creative writer, storyteller, and a family caregiver advocate. She is also a guest panelist on America’s Heroes Group Military Families Matters Caregiver radio show, writes family caregiver articles for the Chicago Crusader Newspaper, is a co-creator of She Vet Caregivers, and is an AARP, Northern Virginia Community Ambassador and Speakers Bureau volunteer.
You can learn more about Keisha on her website.
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