Take Care Time - The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers

Send us Fan Mail 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 everything. Episode 1 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice? begins where all good stories do. At the end.

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Send us Fan Mail 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 when there is no one to take care of?

Send us Fan Mail 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 her life while it does.

Send us Fan Mail 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 Pour. Pause. Pay Attention. , we pull back the curtain on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma — the architects of an opioid crisis that d...

Send us Fan Mail 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 its second month, patterns are emerging that Cyndi can no longer file under variability. Épisode 2 of Pour. Pause. Pay Attention. expl...

Send us Fan Mail 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 caregiver overnight. She tracks the medications, attends the appointments, reads the discharge paperwork four times. She does everything right...

Send us Fan Mail Six hours isn’t enough—but what if it’s enough to begin? In this final episode of the 6-Hours series, we follow Trina as she steps into a new rhythm—one where her limited time is used with intention, not just obligation. Through small but powerful changes, she begins to reclaim pieces of herself that caregiving had quietly taken. But this episode goes deeper. With real reflections...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Take Care Time – The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers , Trina begins to experience something unfamiliar—space. After moving closer to her bakery, the six hours she has while her son attends his day program start to feel different… more usable, more intentional. As her son settles into their new home and finds comfort in his surroundings, Trina realizes she finall...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 of 6 Hours , Trina takes a deeper look at the small house behind her bakery, a decision that could reshape how she lives and works within the six hours she’s given each day. But as she weighs the possibilities, new clues about the recent break-in at the bakery begin to surface. What first seemed like a random crime reveals a surprising connection no one expected. As t...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 2, Trina’s story deepens. Set against the relentless pace of Miami, we learn how she and Sam Sr. built a life together — and how the strain of raising a son with severe autism slowly reshaped their marriage. As Trina fights to keep her bakery running after a suspicious break-in, a small house behind the shop suddenly presents a possibility she hadn’t considered: redesig...

Send us Fan Mail Season 3 begins with Trina, a Florida bakery owner and mother to her 21-year-old son, Sam Jr., who has aged out of school services. When illness cancels the six hours of the day program she depends on, Trina is forced to confront just how fragile her carefully balanced life really is. As burnout simmers and the pressure of running a small business mounts, she’s reminded that six h...

Send us Fan Mail Season 3 of Take Care Time – The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers is here. The new storytelling series, 6 Hours , explores what happens when caregivers are given a small window of relief — and what those six hours reveal about burnout, identity, and hope. The first full episode drops next Thursday and begins with a woman named Trina.

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Send us Fan Mail In the final chapter of The Cookie Jar , Marla Jewell takes a brave step forward as Care Time Fridays quietly launches in Salmon, Idaho. What began as a memory-filled attic discovery becomes a sustainable act of hope for caregivers who desperately need rest. As Marla learns to build without burning out, she also learns to release the weight of the past and choose a future that fin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Cookie Jar , Marla Jewell begins the real work of imagining what life after caregiving could look like. As she digs deeper into her aunt Judy’s notebooks, the abandoned Sacajawea Ridge center, and the stories of caregivers in her community, Marla learns the true cost — financial, emotional, and personal — of bringing respite back to Salmon, Idaho. With Danie...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 2 of The Cookie Jar , Marla Jewell is slowly finding her footing after the end of her caregiving season—until a certified letter, a hidden key, and an unexpected visitor reveal that her Aunt Judy was keeping far more than recipes in that gingerbread jar. As Marla uncovers a secret caregiving past, an abandoned respite center, and a “caretaker’s promise” meant just for h...