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The Caregiver Cup Podcast
The Caregiver Cup Podcast is your space to pause, reflect, and refill. Each season dives into themes that matter most to caregivers—like self-care, boundaries, emotions, and rediscovery—so you can show up as your best self. Join a supportive community that believes when your cup is full, you can care with more strength, joy, and compassion.
The Caregiver Cup Podcast
TRAILER: Welcome to The Caregiver Cup – Season 1: What’s In Your Cup?
Ready for a fresh start? After more than 260 episodes and navigating through some deeply personal caregiving seasons, I've taken a much-needed pause to reimagine what this podcast can be for you. Now I'm back with renewed energy and a powerful focus: your wellbeing as a caregiver.
Season One, "What's in Your Cup," is entirely about you—your health, identity, energy, and emotional wellbeing. Because here's the truth that often gets overlooked: caregiving is not just about what you give; it's about how you refill, protect, and care for your own cup. As Emma Hemming Willis wisely notes in her book "The Unexpected Journey, "Caregiving asks everything of us, yet somehow we must find ways to keep something for ourselves." When nearly 60% of caregivers report their health worsening due to caregiving responsibilities, this conversation isn't just important—it's essential.
Every Tuesday from October 7th through December 8th, 2025, you'll receive six core episodes filled with real talk, self-discovery tools, and practical strategies, plus bonus content including mini pep talks and journaling prompts between episodes. We'll kick off with "Refilled and Reimagined: What's in Your Cup Today," setting the foundation for your journey back to yourself. Whether you're new here or have been listening since day one, this season is your invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what makes you whole. Because when you show up as your best self, you become a stronger caregiver, advocate, and healthier human being. Mark your calendar, grab your favorite drink, and let's rediscover what belongs in your cup—together.
Welcome to the Caregiver Cup Podcast, season 1, what's in your Cup. We're helping you discover your unique caregiving rhythm because your cup matters. Well, hey there, my friend, it's Kathy Vanden Heuvel and welcome, or welcome back to the Caregiver Cup podcast. You may have noticed things look a little different around here, and that's intentional. After more than 260 episodes and walking through some of the most personal caregiving seasons of my life, I took a much needed pause and now I'm back with a renewed rhythm and purpose. I'm calling each of my blocks of episodes called seasons. Season one is going to be called what's in your Cup, and it's all about you, your health, your identity, your energy, your emotional well-being your identity, your energy, your emotional well-being Because caregiving is not just about what you give. It's about how you refill, protect and care for your own cup.
Speaker 1:I love the new book from Emma Hemming Willis and that's Bruce Willis' wife. She writes in her new book, which is called the Unexpected Journey. She says caregiving asks everything of us, and yet we must find ways to keep something for ourselves. That's exactly what this season is all about keeping something for you. And did you know that, according to the National Alliance of Caregiving, nearly six to 10 caregivers report their own health has worsened because of caregiving. I think that's actually low, but 60%. That's why this season is an invitation to pause, to reflect and to discover what you need in your cup to stay strong and whole. To stay strong and whole In this new season format, I'm bringing you six core episodes filled with real talk, self-discovery and practical tools, and I'm going to throw in some bonuses and mini pep talks and journaling prompts in between those six core episodes to keep you grounded and encouraged.
Speaker 1:So season one runs every Tuesday from October 7th 2025 through December 8th 2025. So October until early December. So, whether you're brand new here or you've been listening from the very beginning, this is your season of episodes to pause, reflect, breathe and reconnect with yourself. Season one kicks off with episode one called Refilled and Reimagine what's in your Cup Today. So that's a good one and that's going to be next week. So grab your coffee or whatever you drink, mark your calendar and plan to go ahead and listen each and every Tuesday from, again, october 7th till December 8th. And each week is your chance to pause, refill your cup and step back into your caregiving with more strength and clarity. And again, I am so glad to be back and I'm so glad to go ahead and take all of my thoughts in my head for the last four plus years and put them into seasons and really get into how I can help each and every one of you as a caregiver. So until next week, my friend, take care and get ready because we're coming in hot in season one. Bye for now.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for listening to today's episode of the Caregiver Cup Podcast and, hey, commend yourself for taking this time today just for you. That's something worth celebrating. If you've enjoyed this episode, can I ask a favor of you? Hit that follow button or write a review or, better yet, send me a text. Hearing from you means the world to me. Remember, you are not alone and here in season one, we're focusing on what's in your cup, so don't forget to refill it, protect it and strengthen yours, because when you show up as your best self, you could be a stronger caregiver, advocate and healthier you. Until next time, my friend, take care of you.