HANNAH SADIKI
FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADER | EXECUTIVE COACH | SPEAKER | AUTHOR
Caring for someone you love should never mean losing yourself. Discover what dementia taught one daughter about love, frustration and self-care.
HANNAH SADIKI
FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADER | EXECUTIVE COACH | SPEAKER | AUTHOR
Caring for someone you love should never mean losing yourself. Discover what dementia taught one daughter about love, frustration and self-care.
“Living with Love and Frustration” by Hannah Sadiki
What Dementia Taught Me About Caring for My Mother and Myself
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From boardrooms to her mother’s bedside, Hannah has learned that the hardest leadership lesson is learning to care for yourself.
Hannah Sadiki is a South African financial services leader, executive coach and speaker with more than 35 years of experience. She previously served as CEO of Bidvest Financial Services and Managing Director of Bidvest Bank. Her work reflects a commitment to ethical leadership, developing people and advancing women in business.
Beyond executive leadership, she is deeply committed to people development, coaching and the advancement of women in business. She was an Ambassador for the Bloomberg Women’s Programme 2024/2025. Currently Board Member of the Kolisi Foundation, Trustee of Afrika Tikkun and Advisory Council of Umoya (The Lekker Network).
Her experience of caring for her mother, who lives with dementia, has deepened her understanding of leadership, dignity and the often unseen responsibilities caregivers carry. Through her writing and speaking, Hannah brings caregiving and leadership into conversation, encouraging families, communities and employers to recognise caregivers’ needs alongside those of the people they support.
In her first book, Living with Love and Frustration: What Dementia Taught Me About Caring for My Mother and Myself, she shares a deeply personal journey through love, difficult emotions and learning to care for herself. She hopes her story will help caregivers feel less alone and encourage honest conversations about care and support.
She led institutions with integrity, and now she invites you to lead your own caregiving journey with honesty and compassion.
THE BOOK
Living with Love and Frustration
What Dementia Taught Me About Caring for My Mother and Myself
Dementia changes more than memory. It changes relationships, family dynamics and the everyday realities of those who care for someone they love.
In Living with Love and Frustration; Hannah Sadiki shares an honest, deeply personal journey through the tenderness, exhaustion, guilt, frustration and unexpected lessons of caring for her mother. With courage and compassion, she gives voice to the feelings caregivers often struggle to express, creating space for the conversations many families desperately need but rarely have.
This book invites you to look beyond the diagnosis and recognise the human beings on both sides of the caregiving journey. Whether you are a caregiver, a family member, an employer or someone seeking to understand dementia more deeply, this book will help you approach caregiving with greater empathy, compassion and awareness.
Within these pages, you will discover how to:
- Acknowledge difficult emotions without guilt and understand that love and frustration can coexist
- Care for yourself while caring for another
- Build a more compassionate circle of support
Because caring for someone you love should never mean losing yourself in the process. This book is an invitation to see caregiving differently, speak about it honestly and remember that the caregiver deserves care, too.
