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The Sunday Question

The Sunday Question

Written by: The Caregiving Years
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 When our days feel full of too much stress and too few solutions, we can feel at a loss, unsure what we could do to help ourselves. The stress can make us question if we’ll ever feel better and if life will ever be easier.

What if we changed the question?

The Sunday Question poses just those kinds of questions to ask yourself as you begin your day. As you ask these questions, you’ll connect to possibilities which help lift the weight of your stress.

By asking the same question every day for one week, you create a ritual and a reminder to pay attention to what that question creates for you, such as help, support, opportunities, financial rewards, achievements, acceptance or closure. Rather than feeling stuck in stress, your question can move you into feeling better by taking control.

Denise M. Brown, your podcast host, put this technique into practice both while caring for her parents and running her own small business. The habit helped her when life's circumstances felt overwhelming.

We set our intention for the week with a question. When we ask a question in our head, our mind searches for our answer. With a good question, we can receive what we need.

Purchase The Sunday Question, Volumes 1 and 2, which offer helpful journal prompts to track the impact of your good questions.Copyright The Caregiving Years Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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    We spend so much energy thinking about how we arrive—the impression we make, the moment we step into a room. But what about how we leave?

    This week, Denise explores the often-overlooked art of intentional endings. From the kind words that linger after we're gone to the painful memories we finally release, leaving behind is about so much more than closing the door.

    Discover how being thoughtful about what we leave behind—both the good we offer others and the burdens we let go of—actually deepens our ability to show up fully in life.

    Start your day this week asking yourself: "What will I leave behind?"

    Be sure to share what you'll leave behind.

    Resources
    • The Sunday Question, Volume Two, is out on Kindle and paperback. The journal helps you track which questions work best for you. Add our A Good Morning for You journal to give yourself good starts.
    • Image by Frauke Riether from Pixabay.
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  • How Will I Keep My Audience of One Content?

    How Will I Keep My Audience of One Content?
    Jan 4 2026
    We often worry about what others think—will they like it? Will they approve? But what about you? In this week's Sunday Question, Denise explores why your own approval matters most, and shares how she intentionally built her programs around what she loves rather than trying to please everyone. Discover four practical ways to make yourself your most important audience member and start your week with a question that shifts everything: "How will I keep my audience of one content?"

    Resources
    • The Sunday Question, Volume Two, is out on Kindle and paperback. The journal helps you track which questions work best for you. Add our A Good Morning for You journal to give yourself good starts.
    • Image by Mizter_X94 from Pixabay
    • Join our community, CaringOurWay.com.
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  • What Change Will Be Best for Me?

    What Change Will Be Best for Me?
    Dec 21 2025
    We can change. We can change our habits, our routines, our priorities and our values—without seeking permission and without offering detailed explanations. In this week's Sunday Question, Denise explores what it means to claim your own authority to be different in the way that works for you. Discover how to make meaningful changes with simple, honest statements that honor what you need right now. What will you change so you can be and feel better?

    Stop by our community, CaringOurWay.com, and share your better change.

    Resources
    • The Sunday Question, Volume Two, is out on Kindle and paperback. The journal helps you track which questions work best for you. Add our A Good Morning for You journal to give yourself good starts.
    • Adjusting to life after caregiving ends? Check out Denise's book, After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again.
    • Image by Nicky ❤️🌿🐞🌿❤️ from Pixabay
    About Denise

    Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning and training. Through her work, Denise helps clients find hope, possibilities and a path forward. Denise began helping individuals who care for a family member in 1990 and launched a business to help them in 1995. She created one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 which she managed until its sale in 2020.

    Denise now develops and delivers training programs for the workplace and for individuals who want to coach family caregivers. More than 400 individuals from eight different countries have enrolled in her training programs offered through her company, The Caregiving Years Training Academy. Her training programs have been approved to provide Continuing Education Units to health care professionals, including nurses, and human resource professionals.

    Denise also hosts an online community, CaringOurWay.com, that supports individuals during and after their personal caregiving experience. Community members enjoy free workshops and special events like the Caregiving Listener Project and the 36-Hour Christmas Chat. Denise is the author of several books that provide insights, comfort and hope to those who care, including The Caregiving Guide, Your Go-To Reference and Companion During All Stages of Your Caregiving Experience, and After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again. Her free resource, A Workbook for Your Workplace Wellness, helps individuals who care, grieve and work.

    Denise began helping her parents in 2004 after her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis. Her mom, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in August 2022, one year to the date after Denise’s brother died. Her father died in July 2023.

    Next Avenue named Denise a 2017 Influencer in Aging, one of “50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts who continue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older.” Her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, USA Today, SmartMoney.com, Time magazine and Chicago Tribune.
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