Rest can take many forms, and our supporters play a critical role in helping us get the rest we need.

Here are five tips for supporters to approach sharing in helpful and productive ways.

We need strong communication with our supporters, which means being able to give and receive information in a healthy and helpful way.

Every Lyme disease patient has a unique experience with tick-borne infection.

Every Lyme disease patient has a unique experience with tick-borne infection.

Feeling, expressing, or showing gratitude can be both healing and challenging for tick-borne disease patients.

As the supporter of a patient, you may not be able to cure a disease or make symptoms disappear, but you can help a patient cope. 

Showing respect is a meaningful and essential way for supporters to help tick-borne disease patients.

You may find yourself encouraging your loved one with Lyme to prioritize their self-care. It's important to remember your own, too.

Supporters of tick-borne disease patients often want to appear strong, capable, and unwavering in their commitment to help.

If you can genuinely listen to your loved one, that will demonstrate a kind of compassion that Lyme patients deeply need and appreciate.

In June, the topic of pride gives all of us at Generation Lyme an opportunity to celebrate members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Communication is valuable, especially when you're supporting someone with Lyme disease.

When someone you care about is living with Lyme disease, community becomes more important than ever.

As a supporter of someone living with Lyme, it may seem like you're always adapting to new boundaries.

Even if you're not the one fighting Lyme physically, it can still directly affect your life story.

When the behavior of someone you care about changes, it can feel like a big adjustment.

Your support and willingness to reflect are valuable as the person in your life processes the changes that can occur while living with Lyme disease.

Change can be a loaded word, interpreted as a positive or a negative. Lyme disease inevitably brings some of both kinds of change; for the one living with it and those who support them.

It isn't just the person healing from Lyme who has to figure out which things can and cannot be controlled with this disease.

We know caregiving can be challenging. It's okay to make mistakes and extend yourself some compassion when you do.