Holding It Together (Kinda)
Here we will get real in our conversations about Mental Illness and Caregiving, and the messy reality of keeping it all balanced.
No sugar-coating, no clinical jargon—just real talk about the hospitalizations, the medication battles, and the toll it takes on a home
This is for the parents, siblings, and partners who are doing the impossible every single day.
Holding It Together is a home for the overthinkers, the multitaskers, and anyone who feels like they’re one spilled coffee away from a meltdown.
Episodes
9 episodes
Caregiver Misconceptions with ("Host") Victoria Cuore
HIPAA gets thrown around like a brick wall, guardianship gets sold like a silver bullet, and families get blamed for not having “the right paperwork” while they’re actively in crisis. We slow all of that down and get specific about what’s true,...
A Daughter’s Guide To Dementia and Caregiver Burnout Recovery
Silence is one of the cruelest parts of caregiving. When a parent has cancer, people show up with food and texts. When dementia or a mental health crisis blows up your family’s “normal,” the support often evaporates and you’re left holding the ...
The Cloak of Client Choice
A locked door, a hoarse voice saying “go away,” and a body on the brink of failure. We dive into the harrowing gray zone where autonomy meets danger and ask a hard question: when a mind is hijacked by illness, is “client choice” really a choice...
An Off Switch For Neurospicy Brains with Danniel Worthen Cullumber
Trauma doesn’t always arrive like a lightning strike. Sometimes it settles in, becomes routine, and starts shaping the way a whole household breathes, talks, sleeps, and copes. We sit down with Danniel Worthen Cullumber, MSW, LCSW of Willow Med...
The Kidz Are Alright (Kinda) with My Kids
The kids are not confused about what they need. They’re tired of performing, tired of being reduced to a checklist, and tired of pretending the pressure isn’t real when the “social mirror” lives in their pockets 24/7.We sit down with fi...
This Is What It Takes with Victoria Cuore
Caregiving doesn’t just exhaust your schedule. It rewires your brain into a constant loop of meds, appointments, forms, and fear and then the system expects you to sound calm, concise, and “reasonable” on command. We’re done pretending that’s n...
Caregiver Grief And The Pain Of Loving Someone Who Changed with Dr. Joann Schaeffer, Author of The Unspoken Side of Grief
Caregiving can break your heart in slow motion. When a loved one lives with dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or chronic disease, you can find yourself mourning the person you knew while still making meds, appointments, and meals happe...
6 Hospitals. 2 States. 9 Months
A straight-A teenager with color-coded plans becomes a revolving door patient in six hospitals across two states in just nine months—and her family learns the hard way that the “safety net” often feels like a series of holes. We open the door o...
MIGMA: Make Involuntary Guardianship Mandatory Again!! With Rebecca Iantuonni
A policy can sound compassionate and still be dangerous when you read the fine print. We’re talking about Project Safe Harbor, a reported VA and DOJ partnership that would ramp up guardianship proceedings for certain veterans, including people ...