This week on Soul Thursdays, we sit down with Dr. Carrie Rosario, Public Health Scholar, Caregiver Advocate, and Founder of The Loving Well Podcast.
Dr. Rosario’s academic work centers on health equity — examining the systems and structures that shape who thrives and who struggles. She studies how environments, policy, and structural targeting impact community health.
But caregiving isn’t just a research topic for her.
It is lived.
Her perspective reframes caregiving from an individual burden to a systemic issue.
When caregivers burn out, families destabilize.
When caregivers are unsupported, health outcomes decline.
When caregivers neglect their own well-being, the ripple effects extend across generations.
Caregiver health is public health.
And yet, we rarely build policy, workplace structures, or community systems that treat it that way.
Join the Live Conversation
📅 Thursday, February 26
🕗 8 PM ET
🔗 SoulThursdays.com
If you are caring for an aging parent…
If you are supporting a loved one through illness…
If you have quietly become “the strong one”…
If you recognize yourself in the slow disappearance of hobbies and rest…
There’s a particular tone caregivers develop.
It sounds steady. Efficient. Matter-of-fact.
“Yeah, I’ve got it.”
“It’s fine.”
“That’s just what you do.”
No drama. No spotlight. No request for help.
Just quiet endurance.
The Caregiver Generation
We are living through a demographic shift.
Healthcare systems are stretched. Families are smaller. Geographic mobility has scattered siblings across states. And many adults in their 40s, 50s, and even 30s now find themselves in a dual role:
Full-time employee.
Full-time caregiver.
The data confirms what many quietly feel:
Family caregivers provide the majority of long-term care in the United States.
Many experience chronic stress, sleep disruption, and elevated risk for anxiety and depression.
Caregivers often delay their own medical care.
Financial strain is common — even among middle-class households.
And yet, culturally, caregiving is framed as duty. As love. As expectation.
Why This Conversation Matters
This isn’t about guilt.
It’s about awareness.
It’s about naming what many feel but rarely articulate.
It’s about shifting from heroic endurance to sustainable care.
Dr. Rosario created The Loving Well Podcast as a space for caregivers to reflect, reconnect, and refill — not because they are failing, but because they are carrying.
And carrying alone was never meant to be permanent.
Join the Live Conversation
📅 Thursday, February 26
🕗 8 PM ET
🔗 SoulThursdays.com
If you are caring for an aging parent…
If you are supporting a loved one through illness…
If you have quietly become “the strong one”…
If you recognize yourself in the slow disappearance of hobbies and rest…
This conversation is for you.
You can be responsible
and supported.
You can be strong
and sustained.
You can care for others
without burning yourself out.
Sometimes the first step is simply admitting:
I’m carrying more than I realized.
We’ll see you Thursday.