When the Cup Spills: A Preview of What’s Ahead in Season 3

Caregiving asks a lot of you…
 your time, your energy, your heart.

And sometimes… your cup spills.

Not just a little—but in ways that leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering where those emotions even came from.

If you’ve ever felt burnout, frustration, or even resentment in your caregiving journey… you are not alone. And more importantly—you’re not doing anything wrong.

In this preview of Season 3: When the Cup Spills, we’re opening the door to the real, honest side of caregiving that doesn’t always get talked about.

This season is all about:
 ☕️ Recognizing when your cup is overflowing
 ☕️ Understanding the emotions that come with caregiving
 ☕️ Giving yourself grace and compassion in those moments
 ☕️ And finding simple ways to move through it—without guilt

As you listen, I invite you to gently ask yourself:
 What is my cup telling me today?

Because those moments when things feel like too much…
 they’re not something to ignore.

They’re something to understand.

💛 Season 3 is here to walk with you through it.

Transcript

Welcome Back To Caregiver Cup

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Well, hello, my friend. It's Kathy here, and welcome to the Caregiver Cup podcast. I am so happy to be back and being back into a new season of the Caregiver Cup podcast. So let me start out by asking you something. Have you ever felt like you're holding it all together? Until suddenly you're not. Your patience is gone, your energy is gone, and all those emotions didn't you didn't expect started rising to the surface. Here's the truth. We don't talk about this enough. And that is the topic your cup will spill. It's just part of this journey in caregiving. You will feel burnt out, you will feel resentment, you will feel all these emotions that make you stop and think and ask yourself, where did that come from? Not because you're doing anything wrong, but because you're human and you're caring a lot. And honestly, that's why I wanted to create this season. Yes, season three. So welcome to season three of the Caregiver Cup podcast. It's going to be all about when the cup spills. This season is for you. In those moments when it feels too much, we're not going to ignore the hard parts. We're going to walk through them together. And as you're listening to this season, I just want you to gently ask yourself these two questions. And I'll keep reminding you in the 11 episodes coming up. This first question is Am I noticing the spill right now? Whether that spill be an emotion, a you know, you meltdown, whatever it would be. Are you noticing the spill right now? The second question, what is my what is my cup trying to tell me? What is it telling you? Those are going to be the two important questions. Because those moments, they're not something you have to judge or push away. They're actually trying to tell you something. In other words, there's nothing wrong with you in those moments. They're actually trying to, again, tell you something. They're trying to hint at something. They're trying to go ahead and like your brain is protecting yourself and your body is is going into uh survival mode. So if your cup has been feeling a little too heavy or too full right now, or maybe like it's already spilling over, you're in the right place. Season three actually starts next week. And if you're following me just in time, that's April 28th, 2026. And my friend, you don't have to figure this out on your own. This is going to be the season where we begin to understand what our what our cup is trying to tell us. I can't tell you how excited I am to go through these. Now, this is something I've not already talked about in previous episodes, but we're going to hone in all season long on that cup and how full it is, or how it's overflowing, or how we drop that cup or we spill that cup. We're going to talk about everything from resentment to anger to burning out and being fatigued and all of the other pieces in between. And not only are we going to talk about them, we're going to talk about the whys and the hows and the ways that we can go ahead and improve on those and embrace. I like to say embrace the suck or embrace the hard, but then learn from those so that we don't have as many or we can eliminate some of those as well. So buckle up, join me each and every Tuesday as we go through season three, which will go through June, which I cannot believe I'm talking about April, May, and June already, but I am so excited to go ahead and start. So I can't wait for you to go ahead and feel this the impacts these episodes will have and enjoy those. And as always, there's a text button in the comments section. So if you have any questions or comments or want to share your thoughts, I love getting them. I call them fan mail. And that's you, the caregiver, giving me your bits and pieces and stories so that we can go ahead and continue to walk this journey together. So until next week, my friend, bye for now.