Nervous System Reset for Caregivers - Burnout, Advocacy, Emotional Regulation, Hyper-vigilance, Health Care

If you’re an adult child caring for an ageing parent while also managing work, family, appointments, admin, and your own emotional load, this episode is for you. In this guest episode of Nervous System Reset for...

What if the person with the most information about your loved one is the person the medical system is least designed to include? In this solo episode of Nervous System Reset for Caregivers , Michelle explores caregiver...

If you’re a caregiver who feels like you’re doing all the coordination, calling, chasing, documenting, and repeating your story — while the system still feels stalled — this episode is for you. In this guest episode of...

What if the self-care advice you’ve been given was designed for someone else’s life? Spa days, solo exercise classes, weekends away, and dedicated hours of rest can sound wonderful — but for caregivers in complex...

If you’re a caregiver who keeps going while running on fumes, feels guilty for needing anything, and rarely gets a moment to yourself, this episode is for you. In this guest episode of Nervous System Reset for...

Have you ever walked into a supermarket, hospital, or appointment and felt your whole body shift into a different gear? Scanning the environment, tracking every sound, monitoring every variable, and trying to stay three...

Task 1/7 — Buzzsprout episode description Maximum 3000 characters Have you ever left a hard room, hospital day, appointment, or phone call — and then found your brain replaying it later as though you were still there...

Have you ever lain awake replaying an appointment word by word, wondering what you said, what you should have said, and why the room suddenly felt different? In this solo episode of Nervous System Reset for Caregivers...

What if the way you’ve been measuring your capacity as a caregiver has been wrong from the beginning—not because you’re doing it badly, but because no one ever gave you the right framework? In this solo episode, I’m...

If you’re caring for an aging parent — or you’ve just lost one — there’s a kind of exhaustion that doesn’t always look like burnout. It can look like guilt, mental load, and that quiet feeling of “I’m doing everything...

Have you ever reached the end of a day, a week, or a whole season — and realised that somewhere along the way you stopped asking for help entirely? Not because you didn’t need it. Not because no one offered. But because...

Have you ever stood in a car park before an appointment rehearsing what you’re going to say… and then walked into the room and watched your brain go completely blank? The words were there — and then they weren’t. In...

Have you ever held it together all day — the care tasks, admin, emotional labour, and everyone’s needs — and then you finally get a quiet moment and realise you don’t actually know how to switch off? Rest doesn’t feel...

There’s a layer of caregiving we don’t always name: the cultural layer — the unspoken rules you inherit about what love should look like, who carries responsibility, and what you’re “supposed” to do when family needs...

Have you ever held it together through the appointments, the admin, and everyone else’s needs… and then you finally stop and your body just drops ? Tired but wired. Sleep that won’t settle. Mood thinner. Brain fog...