Find helpful resources for protecting your mental health while caregiving, including a quiz, books, blog posts, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Quiz
Books
Blog Posts
- “Parental Guilt”: How to Navigate Guilt as a Parent or Caregiver?
- Top 9 Caregiver Personality Traits
- Caretaking vs Caregiving – What’s The Difference?
- Caregiver Burnout vs Compassion Fatigue
Caregiving Mental Health Podcasts
- The Caregiver Cup Podcast — Cathy VandenHeuvel
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Focuses specifically on the emotional side of caregiving. Episodes address burnout, overwhelm, anger, resentment, guilt, negative self-talk, boundaries, and maintaining an identity outside the caregiving role. - From Guilt to Good — Jeanette Yates
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A caregiver-focused podcast about burnout, boundaries, guilt, difficult family dynamics, and preserving a life outside caregiving responsibilities. - Daughterhood The Podcast: For Caregivers
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Discusses the emotional and practical realities of caring for aging parents and other family members, including boundaries, healthcare decisions, family relationships, and caregiver well-being.
Specific Caregiving Mental Health Podcast Episodes
- Caregiver Burnout & Mental Health: Expert Advice From Therapist Marcie Hanna
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Licensed clinical social worker Marcie Hanna discusses warning signs of caregiver burnout, managing overwhelm and guilt, setting boundaries, asking for help, and balancing caregiving with your own mental and physical health. - Caregiver Guilt and Shame: Why We Feel It and How to Cope — Caregiver Chats
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Explores why caregivers can feel guilty about needing breaks, feeling frustrated, doing “too little,” or making difficult decisions. The episode also discusses ways to challenge guilt and shame rather than allowing them to dictate every caregiving choice. - Boundaries in Caregiving With Loren Gelberg-Goff — Daughterhood
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Psychotherapist Loren Gelberg-Goff explains how caregivers can identify, communicate, and maintain boundaries without treating every limit as selfish or abandoning the person they care for. - Michelle Melendez: Caregivers — Burnout, Guilt, and Mental Health — FRIED
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Licensed clinical social worker and family caregiver Michelle Melendez discusses burnout, delegating care, guilt about bringing in outside help, and why personally doing every caregiving task is not the only way to care for someone. - Releasing the Guilt of Taking Care of Yourself — The Caregiver Cup Podcast
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Focuses specifically on the guilt caregivers may experience when resting, seeing friends, taking time away, or asking someone else to help. It examines the thoughts that drive this guilt and offers a structured way to question them.
TED & TEDx Talks About Caregiving Mental Health
- Who Cares for the Caregivers? — Toine Heijmans
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A personal account of caring for a father with Alzheimer’s disease and the effect it had on the entire family. Heijmans highlights the stress, uncertainty, emotional labor, and lack of preparation experienced by family caregivers. - How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts — Jacqueline Kerr
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Discusses caregiver, parental, and workplace burnout and makes an important point: burnout cannot always be solved by asking an overloaded person to cope better. Sometimes responsibilities, expectations, workplaces, or family systems also need to change. - Caregiving Is Real Work — Let’s Treat It That Way — Sharmi Surianarain
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Examines the enormous amount of unpaid caregiving performed around the world and why it needs to be recognized as real work. Particularly useful for caregivers who minimize how much they are actually carrying because the work happens inside a family. - How Grief Helped Me Become a Better Caregiver — Hui-wen Sato
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Pediatric nurse Hui-wen Sato explores the grief that can come with prolonged caregiving and how unaddressed loss can affect the person providing care. Useful for understanding why caregivers can grieve even while the person they care for is still alive. - Caring for Our Caregivers: Stronger Community, Healthy Nation — Britnee Kinard
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Focuses on the need for stronger programs and community support for family caregivers, particularly caregivers in military families. The talk shifts attention from what individual caregivers should endure to what support systems need to provide.
