Welcome! As, every day, ‘The’ Betty said ~ and surely does: âConsider Yourself Hugged!â
Seeded in 1982 and grown from 1999, Betty’s Vision flourishes in helping Families thrive despite heartbreak. How? Via Betty’s Mission: Embracing, Empowering, and Engaging brains of all ages to boost cognition, connections, and quality of Life with one simple, simply transforming Message:
âThere’s so much we CAN do to protect, nourish, and enhance brain health ~ and so much JOY we find every day. Let’s!â
Both Betty’s Vision and Mission began in Compellment: One daughter of Alzheimer’s disease desperate to help Families dare to dream of that new paradigm ~ CAN. JOY! ~ simply by learning what to do, why, ‘how to’…-with-Love. Betty’s Daughter M made the first Mission Official: Betty’s Love was formed by her really BIG Dream: âJust one safe, sacred spaceâ (then called, at best, ‘a group home’), âwherein the only requirement of carers, doctors, staff is Love ~ as an Action Verb.â
Mission then manifested in 2007 as Betty’s Love Alzheimer’s Charities [BLAC], a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit UPlifting families in and from a truly safe, sacred space: an auld chapel just outside Chicago aka Betty’s Love’s Heartquarters.â˘
While, at times, also offering refuge to families and carers alike: The Chapel housed Betty’s Love Programs, Services, and Support ~ by 2012, reaching Families in 150+ countries on four continents. Grateful for extraordinary offers to expand BLAC, its original Board of Directors supported M’s recommendation to voluntarily dissolve that nonprofit to be able keep UPlifting families: âno matter where they liveâ (i.e., outside a few-mile radius of The Chapel); âno matter what they needâ (e.g., from more than only four of, then, 63+ Programs and Services); and âno matter Families’ and Caregivers’ and Communities’ ability/inability to pay.â
Privately funded, Betty’s Love’s grassroots movement continued transforming standards, thought, and prACTices re brains, health, emotions, grief, and spirituality in Elders’ and Kids’ Lives, Losses, Love … one brain, one family, one ‘group’-/’nursing’-/’retirement’-home staff, one radio show, one library, one book, one post at a time. ‘The’ Betty’s Love will continue into perpetuity via one last public charity ~ simply, essentially: Betty’s Love!
Betty’s Top Mantras? Love Is an Action Verb!⢠AND? Love IS. Let’s!
Shall WE…in deed? Sign UP today to learn more about M’s Mission(s)!
Love UP!
Betty’s Love transforms health journeys via ‘The’ Betty’s signature Care-with-Love. What do we all need to learn about brain health and care? A lot! Learn how Betty’s Love IS “Changing Lives” ~ coming soon via eCourses that UPlift families in need for free ~ as featured in Costco’s Connection magazine!
Travel UP!
Journey of a lovely Summer afternoon on a trip to Ireland revisited through ‘The’ Betty’s grey eyes ~ and the still-misting greens of “Betty’s & Joe’s fortunate, grateful, proud daughter,” M. THE JOURNEY is a short read, Irish Tall Tale-with-Love which your family will, if wistfully, never forget….
Change UP!
Embrace. Empower. Engage! Betty’s Love inspires Families via UPlifting Actions fostering Hope and Healing in brains of all ages and at all stages of Health ~ free to families in need, worldwide! Join our grassroots movement that’s still Changing Lives … one Missive-with-Love at a time @BettysLove!
Listen UP!
Pour a cup of brain-boosting tea* or coffee* and listen as Chicago’s iHeart Radio shares HOW ‘The’ Betty Loves YOU ~ still and always ~ and WHO’s UPlifted in her name. Gratitude galore to iHeart Radio’s Best Host Ever, Dianne Banks and the Collective Women of the Week!
*Betty’s Tip: Caffeine? SIP It!â˘
ACTivists UP! Costcoâs July 2009 Issue of Connection magazine titled, Making a Difference, praised Bettyâs Love among global charities founded by Costco members âdoing their partâ and âchanging the world.â [Please note: Costco no longer links archived issues. Worry not!** Oh, Love will get a digitized copy. Check back for UPdates!]
Memories UP! Betty’s Love was a âspecial guestâ of Joe Duffy on Dublinâs RTĂ Radio 1 during Queen Elizabeth IIâs historic 2010 visit to Ireland. That same year, Womanâs World, Americaâs leading womenâs weekly magazine, shared âBettyâs Love Storyâ in a full-page feature of Bettyâs Tips⢠about Love, laughter, memory, and how mother and daughter âdiscovered hopeâ on their brain-breaking and JOY-boosting journey together. (Womanâs World, February 22, 2010) [Please note: In any country or/and every language: Love remembers. Check back for UPdates!]
Look UP! Bettyâs Heartquarters’ local newspaper, The Doings, lauded Bettyâs Love âproviding a sacred spaceâ wherein families found much-needed support, information, and respite in an historic restored chapel in suburban Chicago. (Pioneer Press, February 2011) [Please note: This newly digitized article ~ along with dozens of others: Coming SOON! Thanks, Love!]
What do you need of Love today? Ask UP! Remember: Your Family never journeys alone. Ever. Forever: Just like ‘The’ Betty, Love IS ~ in a Present Tense!
Betty’s Breaking News! Betty’s Love is newly a registered 501(c)(3) Public Charity keen to keep UPlifting Families like yours: âSo much we CAN do. So much JOY!â
Patience UP! Thank You for yours as we build new, interactive sites and community platforms to bring Betty’s Love into your home!
#ComingSOON: As often accompany your takeaways from all our endeavors, we’re beginning with Betty’s Three Things!â˘
Project One: Betty’s Embrace Support Group⢠~ walking with families since 2006, we’ll soon begin also meeting online. The Betty’s Hugs? Never ‘just’ virtual!
Project Two: Betty’s Empowerment⢠~ eventually adding all 63+ Programs, we’ll first launch live and self-study eCourses for Betty’s Families’ primary needs.
Project Three: Betty’s Engagements⢠~ fostering local and global eCommunities via positive, practical, proven Betty’s Activities, Special Events, SymposiaâŚ.
Okay, there is, already in play: Project Four! Along the way, M is reissuing all of her â â â â â Betty’s Little Books of Love⢠for interactive reading begetting eConversations, ePresentations, eWorkshops, and a new podcast! All? Always UPlifting Families at a very Heavenly Frequency!â˘
Since 1999, everything Betty’s Love offers is positive, practical, proven, and tailorable to meet Families’ unique needs. All? Also-always: FREE to Families in need. WHY? Simply and essentially among scores of CAN-JOY Stories we’ve received from Families like yours ~ still inspiring our Betty’s Tips: It’s What Love DOES!â˘
