Authors Cappy Capossela and Sheila Warnock were good friends long before they developed Share The Care™ . They also worked for years in advertising as a creative team developing print and television campaigns for men’s and women’s fragrances.

In January, 2002, eight years after Share The Care™ was published, Cappy’s father was diagnosed with a brain tumor and two weeks later Cappy was also diagnosed with a brain tumor. While her mother and brother organized the care of her father in their hometown, Sheila formed a Share The Care™ group for Cappy in New York City. Throughout a devastating illness that left her unable to speak, walk or move her body without assistance, Cappy fought a battle to live her life to the fullest extent possible. The quality of life that Cappy was able to experience was only made possible by the efforts of her group, known as "Cappy's Brain Trust". Both Cappy and her father passed away in October within 12 hours of each other.( See YOUR STORIES)

~Cappy and her Dad, Carmen Capossela~

Following this experience Sheila knew she had to take Share The Care™ to the next level and in 2003 made the life-changing decision to establish ShareTheCaregiving™ , Inc. (501c3) in memory of her dear friend and co-author.

Combining her unique perspective as a three-time primary caregiver and co-author, with her creative and advertising skills she went to work and created the web site, then revised and updated Share The Care™ for a second edition that was cited by The Library Journal as “One of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2004.”  She then developed a training program and began to teach and lecture.

CAPPY CAPOSSELA
Cappy was a graduate of Harpur College in New York State and had a long and successful career at several top New York City Advertising Agencies as a Copywriter and Creative Director. She was an avid ballroom dance competitor, a talented sumei painter and a jingle writer. She loved to garden on her apartment terrace and at her summerhouse in Fair Harbor, Fire Island. Her real passion, however, was creating Broadway musicals. She was in the midst of finishing her second musical, "The Courtesan", when she died. Cappy will be remembered for her many outstanding talents, high energy, humor and loving contribution to caregivers everywhere as co-author of Share The Care™ .

SHEILA WARNOCK
Sheila grew up in Europe and graduated from the L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy.  Upon her return to New York City she began her advertising career at the legendary Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, Inc.  During her 16 years at DDB she made the unprecedented transition from Product Stylist to Art Director while working on numerous award-winning accounts.  Later, after going freelance to pursue work as a professional actress, her dream was sidetracked by a “new role” as her mom’s caregiver. By the early 90’s she returned to advertising and began to study Feng Shui and the powerful impact our environments have on us.  She became certified and taught introductory classes while serving as Co-Director of the New York City Chapter of the International Feng Shui Guild.

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In March, 1988, Susan Farrow’s therapist, Dr. Sukie Miller, suggested and encouraged Susan to ask for help from her friends and, was responsible for the incredible meeting that bonded the first group together. Dr. Miller has always been a staunch supporter of the Share The Care™ model and graciously wrote the FORWARD to the handbook when it was published in 1995. Dr. Miller is on the Advisory Board of ShareTheCaregiving™ , Inc.

~Sukie Miller, Ph.D.~

SUKIE MILLER, Ph.D.
Sukie Miller, Ph.D. is a Psychotherapist in full time private practice in San Rafael, California with clients who have chronic or terminal diseases. Dr. Miller, an early director of Esalen Intitute, has been a member of the Board of the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Board of Medical Quality Assurance, the licensing board for the State of California. In 1972 she founded and directed the pioneering Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine. One of the first researchers to study the cross cultural dimensions and implications of beliefs of the Afterdeath, her books Finding Hope When a Child Dies and AfterDeath; How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life are published by Simon and Schuster.

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