Holding It Together (Kinda)

About Holding It Together (Kinda)

Here we will get real in our conversations about Mental Illness and Caregiving, and the messy reality of keeping it all balanced. No sugar-coating, no clinical jargon—just real talk about the hospitalizations, the medication battles, and the toll it takes on a home This is for the parents, siblings, and partners who are doing the impossible every single day. Holding It Together is a home for the overthinkers, the multitaskers, and anyone who feels like they’re one spilled coffee away from a meltdown.

Publisher

Michael Mackniak, Esq

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Apr 2026

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Nesh Pillay: Be Kind To Little Man

   Send us Fan Mail A brain injury can steal your past without touching your personality, and that gap is where so many families get lost. I sit down with Nesh Pillay, known from Amazon Prime’s 50,000 First Dates, to talk about what amnesia and traumatic brain injury actually feel like from the inside, including the strange reality of knowing facts about your life while lacking the “video playback” most people assume memory is. We dig into Nesh’s “little man in the basement” analogy for memory ...

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   #7 Companion Caregiver Burnout Is Information

   Send us Fan Mail Dementia doesn’t just change memory. It changes family roles, daily math, and the emotional weather in your house. On this midweek unpack, I step back into one of our most downloaded conversations, the Daughter’s Guide to Dementia and Caregiver Burnout Recovery, and pull out the parts that land hardest for so many of us: the moment you realize you’ve become the coordinator, the financial helper, and the safety planner for the parent who once did that for you. I also share so...

3. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Claude Racine: Postpartum Is Not The Baby Blues

   Send us Fan Mail The postpartum period can look normal from the outside while it feels like a full-body emergency on the inside. After the headlines around the Lindsay Clancy case, I wanted a real conversation about what postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety can actually feel like, why people minimize it, and how fast a new parent can lose their sense of self. Claude Racine joins me with raw honesty. She’s a former professional dancer and choreographer turned wellness advocate, and sh...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

80 ratings

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