Grace Lives Here

<p>There's a moment in caregiving that nobody prepares you for.</p> <p>Not the crisis. Not the phone call. Not the ambulance.</p> <p>The moment they finally stop fighting.</p> <p>I was sitting in the corner of her...

<p>Six months ago I was sitting in a hospital room with the blinds closed.</p> <p>She didn't want them open. And I sat beside her in the dim light watching her breathe and asking myself the same question over and...

<p>PODBEAN DESCRIPTION: Ep 13</p> <p>Nobody tells you about the waiting room.</p> <p>They tell you to get your loved one to the hospital. They tell you to call for help. They tell you that once she's there everything is...

<p>Some breakthroughs don't arrive the way you expect them to.<br> After weeks of 911 calls that failed, doors that closed, and a mother who refused every person who tried to help her — the thing that finally broke...

<p>I need to warn you before you press play on this one.</p> <p>This episode is heavy. Not in a way that will break you — but in a way that might finally give words to something you've been carrying around without...

<p>What happens when you finally do everything right — and it still isn't enough?</p> <p>In this episode of Grace Lives Here, Kris takes you inside the moment caregiving finally broke her. From pushing her mother down a...

<p>What do you do when the person you’d do anything to save refuses to be<br> saved?<br> In this episode of Grace Lives Here, I’m taking you back to a specific Thursday in August—the day my mother went from stubbornly...

<p>I spent a long time watching things change with my mom and<br> telling myself it was nothing. I saw the missed meals and the red<br> flags, but I wrote them off as nothing, in part because I wasn't<br> ready to face...

<p>What happens when you realize that the "safe-middle" of your life has actually become a cage?</p> <p>For over 50 years, I’ve lived within a "radius of allowed behavior." Staying small, keeping quiet, and staying...

<p>I blinked, and I was in the middle of a nightmare I didn’t know how to wake up from...</p> <p><br> I’ve been staring at the date on the calendar. Today is my mom’s birthday, or it would have been<br> if she were...

<p>When the person closest to you triggers the version of yourself you’ve worked so hard to leave behind, how do you find your way back?</p> <p>In this deeply personal and unfiltered episode of Grace Lives Here, I’m...

<p>Episode 4: I Survived, But I Wasn’t Free Yet</p> <p><br> We talk a lot about surviving hard things.<br> We don’t talk nearly enough about what happens after.</p> <p><br> In this episode of Grace Lives Here, I share...

<p>Why It Feels Like We Ruin Things When They Start to Go Right<br> Grace Lives Here – Episode 3</p> <p><br> Why does fear show up after things begin to feel better?</p> <p><br> In this episode of Grace Lives Here, we...

<p>In this episode of Grace Lives Here, I’m talking about what came<br> after survival.<br> After meningitis rewired my brain and took my voice with it.<br> After years of learning how to function again.<br> After...

<p>This is the first full episode of Grace Lives Here, and honestly, it still feels a little vulnerable to say that out loud.</p> <p>In this episode, I share the story behind this podcast. Why it exists. Why it matters...