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. What you are doing is not only difficult, and often overwhelming, but it's also one of the most important and rewarding things you can do.
The guests featured are both everyday family members who are caregiver survivors and those who are still in the middle of their caring season. At times, you will meet professionals who bring their experience and compassion for you to our conversations.
I want you to feel encouraged and hopeful after our time together, so you can spend this season with no regrets, living content, and loving well.
Episodes
239 episodes
What If The Miracle Is Already Here
You can pray for healing and still feel stuck in the long middle of caregiving. I get it, because I have lived those moments where I’m waiting for God to change the situation and all I can see is what’s missing. But what if the “miracle” you’re...
Tender Strength in the Valley: Stories of Hope with Carol Evans
Caregiving can start with a few check-ins, then turn into a full-time reality before you even have words for it. We sit down with Carol Evans, a mom, business owner, and fellow podcast host, as she shares the tender and difficult story of carin...
How To Keep Caring When You Feel Alone
You can love your family and still feel crushed when no one shows up to help. When you are the one making the calls, managing the appointments, handling the emergencies, and carrying the emotional load, loneliness can turn into resentment fast....
Dirty Dishes and Holy Moments: Stories of Hope with Mia Godfrey
Caregiving can look brave on the outside while you quietly fall apart on the inside. We sit down with Mia Godfrey, a certified life coach, speaker, and author, to talk about the 11 month season she spent caring for her sister after an ovarian c...
Caregiving After Stroke: Stories of Hope with Lana Wilhelm
A sudden stroke can upend a life in minutes, but the real story unfolds in the long, uneven days that follow. We sit down with Lana Wilhelm—retired nurse, author of Stroke and the Spouse and Stroke and the Caregiver—to explore the hard truths a...
Grief, Pressure, And Unexpected Growth
Caregiving can feel like carrying a secret storm—so many decisions, so much love, and a kind of grief that doesn’t wait for goodbye. We open up about the real weight caregivers hold and how faith, practical wisdom, and honest reflection can tur...
From Genetic Risk To Grace: Stories of Hope with Lori Jones
What if the behavior that broke your heart was actually the brain asking for help?In this episode Rayna sat down with author and advocate Lori Jones to explore the hidden contours of Huntington’s disease, where genetics, uncertainty, and...
When Doing Becomes Being: A Caregiver’s Quiet Shift
Caregiving can arrive gently maybe even without noticing or like a storm: sudden, disorienting, and unplanned. We explore how to find steadiness inside that swirl by remembering your why—not as pressure to push harder, but as an anchor that kee...
Encore Episode #1: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett
Caregiving doesn’t wait for perfect plans or tidy feelings. Pat invites us into the real work of loving a spouse through frontotemporal dementia—spotting the first behavior changes, pushing for a doctor who actually listens, and choosing calm c...
Best of 2025: Stories of Hope with Jackie Freeman
What if the hardest part of caregiving isn’t the tasks, but letting go of control? We sit down with writer and caregiver advocate Jackie Freeman, who walked a rare dual path: caring for her father through Alzheimer’s while supporting her husban...
Encore Episode #3: Stories of Hope with Joy Kats
Enjoy the 3rd most listened to episode of 2025 with Joy Kats: What if the door you begged to open was actually protecting you for the work only you could do? That’s the tension we walk through with author and speaker Joy Kott as she traces the ...
Jesus & Autism: Stories of Hope with Mandy Horne
Caregiving rarely color‑codes itself on our calendars. One day you’re navigating an adoption that looks nothing like the tidy plans you imagined; the next day, you’re juggling a teen’s complex needs alongside aging parents in the hospital. Mand...
Life Continues; Love Expands; Hope Holds: Stories of Hope with Pat Burkett
A small change in behavior can rewrite a life. When Pat began noticing Don’s unusual decisions, lost words, and shifting patterns, the search for answers led to a Frontotemporal Dementia diagnosis—and a decade-long lesson in love, agency, and f...
Finding Dignity and Grace in Caregiving Decisions: Stories of Hope with Catherine Fitzhugh
Caregiving rarely unfolds the way we imagine. Catherine joins us to trace a decades-long journey that started in childhood waiting rooms and led to the moment her father was diagnosed with Huntington’s at 80, long after her mother’s dementia an...
From Closet Floor Prayers to a Waymaker Testimony: Stories of Hope with Shelli Strickland
What happens when the child you love suddenly can’t face the day—and the usual fixes don’t work? We open up about a mother’s unseen caregiving: guiding her son through anxiety and depression after a cross-country move collided with the uncertai...
ALS, Marriage and a Deeper Faith: Stories of Hope with Cathy Bennett
What if the hardest season of your life became the place where wonder returned, marriage deepened, and purpose took root? That’s the heart of our conversation with caregiver and author Cathy Bennett, who spent nine years walking alongside her h...
Faith Over Guilt: Finding Peace in Your Caregiving Journey
Do you ever feel weighed down by guilt as a caregiver—second-guessing your choices, comparing yourself to others, or wondering if you’ve done enough? In this heartfelt episode of A Season of Caring Podcast, Rayna Neises gently reminds ...
Rhythms of Wellness: Stories of Hope with Manjeet Singh
What happens when a healthcare professional becomes the patient, then becomes a family caregiver? Manjeet Singh's remarkable journey offers a powerful perspective on caregiving that few can provide.Manjeet joins us to share his transfor...
From Fixer to Faithful Companion: Stories of Hope with Jackie Freeman
What happens when a self-described "overachiever" and "fixer" faces the uncontrollable challenges of caring for multiple loved ones with serious illnesses? Jackie Freeman's powerful story reveals the beautiful transformation that can occur when...
Love's Last Healing Chapters: Stories of Hope with Susie Lewis
What happens when caregiving forces you to confront your most painful memories? For Susie Lewis, caring for her parents became an unexpected journey toward freedom and healing.Susie shares the contrasting experiences of caring for her m...
Beyond the Caregiver Role: Reclaiming Your Identity and Dreams
"Who am I outside of caregiving?" This question haunts many family caregivers as they navigate the all-consuming journey of caring for a loved one. Drawing from my personal experience of caring for my father with Alzheimer's for 14 years, I unp...
Changing Mindset, Not Circumstances: Stories of Hope with Rick Henkin
Your loved one's behavior isn't the source of your stress—your reaction to it is." This powerful insight forms the foundation of Rick Henkin's transformative approach to dementia caregiving, which he shares in this deeply moving episode....
Breaking Free and Caring Well: Stories of Hope with Christine Trimpe
What happens when a personal health transformation becomes the unexpected preparation for a life-altering caregiving journey? Christine Trimpe's story powerfully demonstrates how God works ahead of our awareness to equip us for challenges we ca...
Faith and Letting Go the Heart of Caregiving: Stories of Hope with Susan Stern
What happens when caregiving transforms you so completely that it redirects your life's purpose? Susan Stern's remarkable journey takes us through two decades of caring for both parents—first as a long-distance caregiver for her father during h...
Grace for the Season: Quieting the Inner Critic and Embracing Growth
Grace transforms the caregiver journey from a pursuit of perfection to a path of authentic love and service. When our inner critic shouts that we've fallen short - that we should be more patient, more organized, more everything - grace gently r...