 Stories of Hope for living content, loving well, and caring with no regrets!
About A Season of Caring Podcast
 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!
About A Season of Caring Podcast
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!
Meet Your Host
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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.
This podcast is wonderful!
I have been listening for a few years when I can and it always encourages me as I am a caregiver! Rayna does an excellent job. She is kind, compassionate, encouraging and wise.
I feel in part this podcast was an answer to prayer some years back when late one night I felt exhausted Svc discouraged. I had prayed to the a Lord to send help, and shortly after the thought popped into my mind. “why don’t you look for a podcast on caregiving”. I thought, that can’t be an answer to the prayer I just prayed, it is way too easy! 😂 Anyway, when I searched for a podcast this one came up, and I really am thankful!
Sincerely, Andy Hubbard
Past Episodes
Avoid Disputes: Have the Tough Conversations
Rayna Neises, your host, interviews Carolyn Miller Parr. The author of Love’s Way: Living Peacefully With Your Family As Your Parents Age, a valuable tool for seniors and their adult children. Her hope is that it helps families navigate the journey without disputes that end up in the courts or mediation.
Thinking More About Advanced Directives
Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets!Episode 33 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Aly Neises, RN, cohost, further discuss the topic of Advanced Directives which was started last week during the conversation with Kira Reginaldo. Additional thoughts/learnings:...
Advanced Directives – Everyone Needs One Now!
Rayna Neises, your host, interviews Kira Reginato. Kira is a geriatric care manager who has helped the elderly and their families in a variety of settings. Her vast experience coupled with her entrepreneurial nature has allowed her to develop an app for family caregivers and to author a book that she recently updated and rereleased, Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents: (without Losing Your Mind). She has so many tools to help caregivers, but focuses in this interview on tips regarding Healthcare/Medical Directives.
Thinking About the End of the Journey
Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Aly Neises, RN, cohost, reflect on the conversation with Karen Hafner who, along with her sister, cared for their father. Their family, like many, had a caregiving journey that lasted over several years, but then ended after a quick decline. Guidance for this final part of the caregiving journey is provided in this episode.
A Family Caring Together
Rayna Neises, your host, interviews Karen Hafner. Karen’s father died just over a year ago and she shares insights regarding her caregiving journey with him and her sister.
Wearing the Advocacy Hat
Rayna and Aly reflect on the conversation with Kelly and how important the advocacy hat is in caregiving.