Podcast

Ep 9: Mental Health Vibe Check: The State of Caregiver Mental Health & the Supports That Keep Us Going in 2024

Hey caregiver. How are you doing? No, we mean, how are you *really* doing? Because according to the research (both ...
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Ep 8: Facing Uncertainty in Caregiving: IEPs, Social Security, and In-Home Nursing, Oh My!

When it comes to being a caregiver to  a medically complex and/or disabled child especially in 2024, life can feel…. ...
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Ep 7: The State of Caregivers and Careers & Why That Matters For Our Medically Complex Kids

When it comes to the careers of caregivers… things are complicated. While some caregivers are able to maintain a wide ...
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Ep 6: The Caregiver Continuum: This Is Why We’re Always Tired

The Caregiver Continuum. The continuum on which we as caregivers find ourselves looping around and around… and around again. We’ve ...
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Ep 5: Surviving Thanksgiving (literally), Holiday Hot Takes, and an Idea-versary

Today’s conversation is a little lighter than usual becaaaaaaaause Erica and Alyssa are both still recovering from the holidays. Alyssa, ...
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Ep 4: Did we invent a new term?! (Or why are so few professionals disability-informed?)

Disability-informed… If you’ve been following us, you’ve heard us use this phrase non-stop in the last month. So, you would ...
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Ep 3: Disability-Informed Caregiving and a couple of really good moms (and no, we’re not talking about ourselves)

In their last introductory episode, Erica and Alyssa share how their own experiences as disabled children shaped the way they ...
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Ep 2: Cared for to Caregiver: How two disabled kids grew up to parent their own disabled children

Erica and Alyssa get super vulnerable and share their own experiences of growing up as disabled children. We talk about ...
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Ep 1: Caregiving, coffee, and maybe too much information: an introduction to Caffeinated Caregivers

It’s our very first episode, and we promise we talk about way more than just coffee! Erica and Alyssa get ...
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