This issue is a love letter from me, Lucinda Koza, I-Ally’s Founder & CEO, to my team, my advisors, mentors, partners, and every person who has signed up for the platform or subscribed to the newsletter or followed us on social media. To say a lot has happened both within…

When you have someone in your family or in your life who has an addiction, it can seem commonplace. If you grow up in a home in which a parent often needs care, almost like a child, when they come home drunk and you have to clean them up and…

When I became Power of Attorney for my father, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was agreeing to. Actually, I had no idea. The paperwork was signed in his hospital room amidst an air of desperation. I knew one thing: if decisions needed to be made, I had to make…

Laughter Soft skin It’s the World and I’ve brought you in I’ll protect you from bad men I’ll show you beauty, radical acceptance, Diversity, humility, and wonder. I want to show you all the transcendent things we cannot grasp Like ballet, artifacts from Ancient Egypt And Why you feel an…

Our society has taken the phrase “The Sunday Scaries” and applied it directly to the working woman’s dread on a Sunday evening as she realizes the workweek is now upon her. I do not doubt this experience one bit; I remember my mother’s literal depression coming on as the Sunday…

Trigger warning: depression. I’ve tried to welcome the emptiness when it comes, letting it wash over me. Allowing it to take hold of my entire being. Letting myself slip into its clutches. I do this because I have heard it’s the right thing to do. Move through the feelings rather…

Saying my father was a man unwilling to change is like saying South Carolina is hot in the summer. It is such a given circumstance that discussing it was a moot point. This was driven home for me throughout my childhood and adolescence. The point was driven home when we’d…

Medicaid is America’s primary payer for long-term and eldercare services. It can make life a lot easier for both caregivers and the person in need, and covers the costs of ongoing healthcare and medical needs, but Medicaid is often misunderstood. The application process is complicated. Since Medicaid is a program…

It’s no secret that unless one has long-term care insurance coverage or personal wealth, someone in the family will be providing unpaid care for them if/when they get sick or begin to age. Even though it’s no secret, it remains largely undiscussed and absolutely unsolved, like a giant pink elephant…