Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!

About A Season of Caring Podcast

mother and daughter

 A Season of Caring Podcast is a place to find hope for your Season of Caring.  Pointing listeners to the hope they can find in God even in the busyness and loneliness of caregiving.

I want you to know that I see you and God sees you.  There is no doubt what you are doing is not only difficult, and often overwhelming but it’s also important and one of the most rewarding things you can do.

I feature both everyday family members who are caregiver survivors and those who are still in the middle of their caring season.  I also bring you professionals who bring their experience and compassion for you to our conversations.

My goal is for you to walk away from our time together feeling encouraged and hopeful that you can spend this season living content, loving well and caring with no regrets!

Pat Burkett

Best of 2025: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 232 A small change in behavior can rewrite a life....
Jackie Freeman

Encore Episode #2 2025: Stories of Hope with Jackie Freeman

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 231 What happens when a self-described “overachiever”...
Encore Episode #3 Joy Kats

Encore Episode #3 2025: Stories of Hope with Joy Kats

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 230 What happens when God orchestrates seemingly...
Mandy Horne

Jesus & Autism: Stories of Hope with Mandy Horne

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 229 Caregiving rarely color‑codes itself on our...

Life Continues; Love Expands; Hope Holds: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 229 A small change in behavior can rewrite a life....

About A Season of Caring Podcast

mother and daughter

A Season of Caring Podcast is a place to find hope for your Season of Caring.  Pointing you to the hope that can be found in God even in the busyness and loneliness of caregiving.

I want you to know that I see you and God sees you.  There is no doubt what you are doing is not only difficult, and often overwhelming but it’s also important and one of the most rewarding things you can do.

I feature both everyday family members who are caregiver survivors and those who are still in the middle of their caring season.  I also bring you professionals who bring their experience and compassion for you to our conversations.

My goal is for you to walk away from our time together feeling encouraged and hopeful that you can spend this season living content, loving well and caring with no regrets!

 

Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!

Pat Burkett

Best of 2025: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 232 A small change in behavior can rewrite a life....
Jackie Freeman

Encore Episode #2 2025: Stories of Hope with Jackie Freeman

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 231 What happens when a self-described “overachiever”...
Encore Episode #3 Joy Kats

Encore Episode #3 2025: Stories of Hope with Joy Kats

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 230 What happens when God orchestrates seemingly...
Mandy Horne

Jesus & Autism: Stories of Hope with Mandy Horne

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 229 Caregiving rarely color‑codes itself on our...

Life Continues; Love Expands; Hope Holds: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett

A podcast where we share stories of hope for family caregivers breaking through loneliness to see God even in this season of life.Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!Episode 229 A small change in behavior can rewrite a life....

Meet Your Host

Rayna Neises, ACC

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Rayna Neises, ACC

Author of No Regrets: Hope for Your Caregiving Season, Editor of Content Magazine, ICF Certified Coach, Speaker, Podcast Host, & Positive Approach to Care® Independent Trainer offering encouragement, support, and resources to those who are in a Season of Caring for Aging Parents.

Her passion is for those caring and their parents, so that both might be seen, not forgotten & cared for, not neglected.

A Season of Caring Podcast

Past Episodes

Relationships Require Boundaries

Relationships Require Boundaries

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets!Episode 106Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on the topics shared during last week’s interview with Debra Hallisey. She revisits the concepts around relationships that Debra shared from her book, The Caregiver’s...

Relationship Contract

Relationship Contract

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets!Episode 105This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Debra Hallisey. Debra lost her job due to her caregiving responsibilities with her mother and, as a result, founded Advocate for Mom and Dad, LLC. In addition,...

Advocating as Caregivers

Advocating as Caregivers

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets!Episode 104This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Carlos Olivas III.  Carlos was a guest last year on the podcast and immediately comes to mind when thinking about advocacy.  Since 2016, he has been the...

Caregiver Support – Advocacy and On-Line Communities

Caregiver Support – Advocacy and On-Line Communities

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets!Episode 103This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Usha Tewari.  Usha is a first-generation Indian American, passionate advocate, and congressional ambassador.  She worked full time at her government job and...

Alzheimer’s- Just Some of the basics

Alzheimer’s- Just Some of the basics

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 102Rayna Neises, ACC, host, expands on the concepts Lauren Dykovitz shared regarding her journey in caring for her mother with Early Onset Alzheimer’s.  In addition, Rayna shares information on the basics of...

Alzheimer’s Daughter, You Are Not Alone

Alzheimer’s Daughter, You Are Not Alone

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 101This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Lauren Dykovitz.  Lauren is a writer, author, wife, and dog mom.  She became a family caregiver when her mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in...

Rayna Neises: A Season of Caring