Take Care Time - The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers
Take Care Time: The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers," is a heartfelt and engaging exploration of the caregiving experience. It combines elements of laughter, mystery, and resilience to offer a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of those who dedicate their time to caring for others. Our stories are inspired by true events however the names and locations are changed to protect the privacy of caregivers.
Episodes
107 episodes
Out of Order 5 - The Exhale
Delores had her say. Sharon had hers. Now it's Beverly's turn again. In this Exhale for Out of Order, we step out from behind the story to talk honestly about protective concealment, the empty cup, and what it really takes to be someon...
Out of Order 4
Sharon finally hears the truth from her daughter: "That is not protection. That is isolation, dressed up as love." In the finale of Out of Order, Kimberly comes home, a family stops protecting each other into silence, and Sharon learns...
Out of Order 3
Six minutes from home, everything changed. Sharon's own heart finally gave the warning her doctor had just delivered an hour before. But this time, someone was watching. In Episode 3 of Out of Order, the pattern breaks — and whether Ma...
Out Of Order 2
She noticed the mail piling up. The car that never left the driveway. The porch light burning through the night. Gracie knows exactly what she's seeing — because six years ago, she was Sharon. In Episode 2 of Out of Order, one neighbor...
Out Of Order
Betsy Arakawa died first. Alone, searching her own symptoms online, while caring for her husband. Six days later, Gene Hackman's pacemaker recorded its last beat. In Episode 1 of Out of Order, we meet Sharon and Martin — and ask the qu...
Wait Did They Say Hospice 5 - The Exhale
Delores had her say. Now it's our turn. In the first-ever Exhale, we step out from behind the story to talk about what Wait, Did They Say Hospice? really meant — and answer your questions about hospice, grief, and the living piece.
Wait, Did They Say Hospice? 4
Delores has one more thing to say. And the pastor is only getting most the story right. In the finale of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, we learn what she got to keep, what she left behind in three unexpected places, and why she wants you...
Wait, Did They Say Hospice 3
Jerome, the social worker, arrived with no binder, no checklist, and one question nobody had thought to ask yet. Hannah. Who is taking care of you? In Episode 3 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, the furniture moves, the hospital bed arri...
Wait, Did They Say Hospice 2
She arrived with a canvas bag, a blood pressure cuff, and the good tissues — the soft kind with the lotion built in. Patricia Osei had knocked on eight hundred doors just like this one. In Episode 2 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, hosp...
Wait, Did They Say Hospice?
She is narrating from inside her own casket. And she has a lot to say. Meet Delores — a woman in her late sixties who gardened too aggressively, raised two very different daughters, and is now looking back on the day a single word changed every...
Pour Pause Pay Attention 5
The house is quiet now. Christopher is in treatment. And Cyndi is standing in her kitchen with no idea what to do with herself. Episode 5 of Pour. Pause. Pay Attention. asks the question every caregiver eventually faces — who are you w...
Pour Pause Pay Attention 4
He said he was going to the hardware store. He was gone for two and a half hours. The hardware store was eleven minutes away. In Episode 4 of Pour. Pause. Pay Attention., the double life begins — and Cyndi is making the best wine of he...
Pour Pause Pay Attention: The Third Pressing
Cyndi finally makes the call. And what happens in Dr. Reyes's office on that Friday afternoon is something neither she nor Christopher was fully prepared for — but both of them, somewhere deep down, already knew was coming. In Episode 3 of ...
The Second Pressing - Pour Pause Pay Attention 2
Cyndi Marlowe is a careful woman. She photographs the pill organizer every Sunday. She logs every observation. She tracks everything. But tracking everything and understanding everything are not the same thing. As Christopher's recovery enters ...
Pour Pause Pay Attention
Cyndi Marlowe names every batch of wine she makes. Not for anyone else — just for herself. It is the one thing in her life that asks nothing of her. When her husband Christopher survives a traumatic fall at work, Cyndi becomes his full-time car...