Caffeinated Caregivers
Erica Stearns & Alyssa Nutile
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About This Podcast
Welcome to Caffeinated Caregivers, with your hosts Erica Stearns and Alyssa Nutile, two caregivers and parents to medically complex children who are out here, ready to build a community of caregivers to empower each other and advocate for better support — for themselves and those they care for.
Each month, we'll bringing you stories, research, resources, and hopefully a few laughs too as we chat with medical professionals, disabled adults, AND other caregivers who are laugh-crying their way through life.
To stay up to date with episode releases and to join our community of caregivers, follow us on Instagram @caffeinated_caregivers or visit our website www.caffeinatedcaregivers.com.
We're so glad you're here.
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Recent Episodes
Ep 13: The Caregivers Are (Bleeping) Overwhelmed
We’re back with coffee, chaos, and maybe a few choice words, and diving straight into what feels like the collective caregiver mood of 2025: utter overwhelm.Between policy threats, service cuts, and…
Ep 12: From Hospital to Home: What They Don't Tell You (and what we've been doing the last six months!)
We’re back and ready to dive into the community complaint department! In this episode, we catch you up on our six-month hiatus (spoiler: it’s been a mix of zero-fun medical stuff and a few bright…
Ep 11: Tricky Feelings Around Disability Pride and Where Caregivers Fit In
It's the last day of Disability Pride Month, which is appropriate considering that we at Caffeinated Caregivers have been avoiding talking about this topic all month. To be honest, Disability Pride…
Ep 10: Mental Health Breaking Points & Overcoming Fear Around Asking for Support with Karley Henderson
This week, we're not bringing you stats or data or research... we're just bringing ourselves and our friend Karley. Because the truth is, data can only tell you so much, but for the three of us, some…
Ep 9: Mental Health Vibe Check: The State of Caregiver Mental Health & the Supports That Keep Us Going in 2024
Hey caregiver. How are you doing? No, we mean, how are you *really* doing?Because according to the research (both our informal research and the many published academic studies), mental health for…
Ep 8: Facing Uncertainty in Caregiving: IEPs, Social Security, and In-Home Nursing, Oh My!
When it comes to being a caregiver to a medically complex and/or disabled child especially in 2024, life can feel.... uncertain. Covid-era legislation that helped caregivers in many states is now…
Ep 7: The State of Caregivers and Careers & Why That Matters For Our Medically Complex Kids
When it comes to the careers of caregivers… things are complicated. While some caregivers are able to maintain a wide variety of careers with the help of flexible work, home health nursing,…
Ep 6: The Caregiver Continuum: This Is Why We’re Always Tired
The Caregiver Continuum. The continuum on which we as caregivers find ourselves looping around and around… and around again. We’ve gone through it. We’ve watched our fellow caregivers go through it.…
Ep 5: Surviving Thanksgiving (literally), Holiday Hot Takes, and an Idea-versary
Today’s conversation is a little lighter than usual becaaaaaaaause Erica and Alyssa are both still recovering from the holidays. Alyssa, because she always travels on holidays, and Erica, because she…
Ep 4: Did we invent a new term?! (Or why are so few professionals disability-informed?)
Disability-informed… If you’ve been following us, you’ve heard us use this phrase non-stop in the last month. So, you would expect that to be a common phrase, right? After all, the idea seems…
Ep 3: Disability-Informed Caregiving and a couple of really good moms (and no, we're not talking about ourselves)
In their last introductory episode, Erica and Alyssa share how their own experiences as disabled children shaped the way they navigate caregiving now. They touch on the examples that their own…
Ep 2: Cared For to Caregiver: How two disabled kids grew up to parent their own disabled children
Erica and Alyssa get super vulnerable and share their own experiences of growing up as disabled children. We talk about our disabilities, the many feelings that come with growing up in a noticably…
Ep 1: Caregiving, coffee, and maybe too much information: an introduction to Caffeinated Caregivers
It's our very first episode, and we promise we talk about way more than just coffee! Erica and Alyssa get into everything including how they first met, their own parenting and caregiving experiences,…
Welcome to Caffeinated Caregivers!
Welcome to Caffeinated Caregivers, with your hosts Erica Stearns and Alyssa Nutile, two caregivers and parents to medically complex children who are out here, ready to build a community of caregivers…
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Caffeinated Caregivers has published 14 episodes since September 2023, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Kids & Family.
Caffeinated Caregivers is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 51m.
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