Hosted by Michael Mackniak, Esq · EN-US · 8 episodes
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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.
Michael Mackniak, Esq hosts Holding It Together (Kinda), a health show with 8 episodes published.
Your loved one can be struggling in plain sight, and somehow the whole family learns to whisper about it. We sit down with clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Sherman, author of *Loving Someone with Mental Illness or a Hi
Your shoulders are up near your ears, your jaw is locked, and you are running on adrenaline again and calling it “fine.” If that sounds like caregiving life, you are not imagining it and you are not weak. I’m joined by A
Caregiving can look heroic on the outside while you’re shaking behind the safety gate on the inside. We name that gap and get honest about the cost of trying to be endlessly patient, present, and “fine” while managing ch
AI is everywhere right now, and the noise makes it easy to assume one of two extremes: either it saves healthcare or it destroys it. I sit down with Emerson Kerr, a longtime sleep medicine leader and C-suite executive at
Your brain is not a fixed object, and neither is your future. I sit down with Dr. Matthew Galati, a family medicine and rehab physician who also survived a severe traumatic brain injury after a brutal car crash. He spent
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 spe
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
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
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,
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
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
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, appoi
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 h
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 vet
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Holding It Together (Kinda) is hosted by Michael Mackniak, Esq. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 8 episodes.
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