The Loretta Brown Show - 04-23-26 - Zen Caregiving

Today, Loretta welcomes Roy Remer who is the author of Zen Caregiving: How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Others, a compassionate and practical guide designed to support caregivers through one of life’s most meaningful—and often overwhelming—roles. With nearly three decades of experience as an educator and end-of-life caregiver, Roy has dedicated his life to helping individuals navigate illness, aging, grief, and loss with greater presence, clarity, and emotional resilience. He is the Executive Director of the Zen Caregiving Project in San Francisco, where he also serves as the lead creator of the Mindful Caregiving Education curriculum. Through this work, Roy has helped train thousands of caregivers—both professional and family members—offering tools rooted in mindfulness, compassion, and self-awareness to support emotional well-being in the caregiving journey. Roy began his caregiving work at the Zen Hospice Project, where he witnessed firsthand the profound emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges caregivers face—often long before end-of-life care begins. This experience inspired him to create programs that support caregivers earlier in the process, helping them develop the inner resources needed to remain steady, compassionate, and resilient over time. In Zen Caregiving, Roy offers a path that goes beyond caregiving techniques. He addresses the emotional realities caregivers face—such as grief, anxiety, guilt, and compassion fatigue—and provides simple, accessible practices to help quiet the mind, cultivate presence, and reconnect with inner steadiness. His work emphasizes that self-care is not optional, but essential—and that true caregiving arises not from depletion, but from awareness, balance, and compassion. At its heart, Roy’s message is both practical and deeply spiritual: that caregiving, while often challenging, can also be a profound path of connection, growth, and meaning—one that invites us to meet life, and ourselves, with greater presence and love. Find out more here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zencaregiving Facebook Professional: https://www.facebook.com/ZenCaregivingProject LinkedIn: : https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-remer-84615567/