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The Care Reset Program

Care Reset is for caregivers who want to show up fully for their person without burning out or disappearing.


Inside the program, you’ll learn how to navigate the medical, emotional, and practical weight of caregiving with more confidence and less overwhelm. You won't find clichés, toxic positivity, or unrealistic expectations.


Care Reset combines physician-level insight with grounded, real-world tools you can actually use.
You’ll learn how to:

  • Stay centered when the situation is uncertain
  • Advocate effectively in medical settings
  • Manage the hard emotions - yours and theirs
  • Set loving, appropriate boundaries without guilt
  • Reduce stress in ways that fit into an already-full life
  • Create more meaningful moments with your loved one, even during this hard chapter of life


If you want support that respects your intelligence, your time, and your love for the person you’re caring for, Care Reset was designed for you.


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Private Caregiver Coaching

One-to-One Coaching for Family Members of People Who Are Seriously Ill


Caring for someone who is seriously ill is not something most people are prepared for — even capable, thoughtful, responsible people.


You may be trying to manage medical information, logistics, family dynamics, and your own reactions all at once. It’s a lot to manage, and much of that responsibility lands on the closest family members.


I’m a former practicing palliative care physician, and I’ve spent years working with patients and families dealing with serious illness. I understand how these situations unfold, how the medical system works, and how complex the role of a family caregiver can become.

In this work, I’m not acting as your doctor and I won’t give medical advice. What I bring is deep familiarity with this terrain - and practical perspective on what helps families navigate it more effectively.


Private caregiver coaching is designed to help you manage the whole experience with more clarity and less internal pressure. The sessions are personalized to your specific situation and may include:


  • Tools for managing the ongoing demands of caregiving without burning out
  • Strategies for thinking through decisions and next steps more clearly
  • Skills for communicating with clinicians and family members more effectively
  • Support for caring well for your loved one without neglecting yourself


Our conversations are practical and real. We may talk about how to organize what actually needs your attention, how to prepare for medical conversations without feeling lost, how to navigate guilt and unrealistic expectations, and how to stay connected to yourself while caring deeply for someone else.


This is not therapy or medical care. It’s thoughtful, structured support from someone who understands how complex caregiving can be.


If you’re trying to care well for someone you love (and want help doing that without losing yourself) you’re in the right place.


Sessions are held privately over Zoom and scheduled at times that work around caregiving responsibilities.

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"Don't set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm"

THE PODCAST

THE INTEGRATIVE PALLIATIVE PODCAST

Caring for someone who is seriously ill is hard. It isn't hard because you're doing it wrong, it's just hard.


What do you say? How do you help? How do you keep yourself together when all your energy is going to your loved one? What do you do with your guilt and resentment and regret?


In The Integrative Palliative Podcast Dr. Delia Chiaramonte, physician, educator, and caregiver coach, brings grounded insights into the emotional, practical, and human realities of caregiving.


This show offers authentic conversations, clarity, tools, and relief for people navigating a loved one's serious illness.


Palliative care clinicians, physicians, nurses, death doulas, chaplains, and social workers will also find valuable information to help them care for families facing illness.


The book

COPING COURAGEOUSLY

Engaging Stories


Every chapter starts with a story, many of them from Dr. Delia's practice. You will enjoy getting to know her patients and you will learn from every one of them. She also shares vulnerable stories from her own life and family to illustrate insights and demonstrate real coping strategies that work. This book will make you feel wiser, stronger, more confident, and more able to effectively navigate your loved one's illness without losing yourself.


Practical Strategies

Coping Courageously is packed with practical strategies for thriving as a family as you face serious illness together. 


Humor

Coping Courageously tackles tough topics with wide eyes and a touch of dark humor. This book is not a downer. It is honest, brave, in-your-face, and a bit irreverent. Warning: you will find the occasional curse word! 


Prefer to listen to audiobooks? Coping Courageously is available on Audible.

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