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by Michael Mackniak, Esq
Holding It Together (Kinda) is for people who look like they have it handled on the outside while knowing damn well it’s messier underneath. Host Michael Mackniak has honest conversations with caregivers, clinicians, advocates, experts, authors, and people who have learned something worth sharing by actually living through it. We talk about caregiving, mental health, illness, loss, relationships, broken systems, difficult choices, and those moments when you find yourself wondering: What the hell do I do now? The conversations are direct, curious, occasionally irreverent, and willing to go beyond the polished advice and easy answers. No pretending everything happens for a reason. No seven easy steps to fixing your life. Just real conversations about the things that happen to us, the choices we make, what we can control, what we can’t—and what comes next. Because most of us are holding it together. Kinda.
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- 1 weeks ago3 min
#9 Companion A Brain Injury Survivor’s Guide To Pacing And Preemptive Rest
Send us Fan Mail Your brain can look “fine” on the outside while it fights a silent battle on the inside. I sit down with Matt Galati, a med student turned living proof of resilience after a serious car accident and severe brain injury, to talk about what recovery actually feels like when cognitive fatigue becomes the hidden driver of your day. We get specific about the moments people miss: how a short clinical appointment can fail to capture the real cost of ordinary tasks at home, why proc...
- 1 weeks ago57 min
The Thin Line Between Care And Control
Send us Fan Mail A conservator refuses to sign consent for a pregnancy termination because of personal religious beliefs, so a client’s medical decision gets pushed into probate court. That’s where we start, because it captures the core tension we keep running into as fiduciaries and clinicians: the line between protection and control is thin, and the stakes are painfully human. From there, we unpack a case that forces the hardest question in mental health caregiving and medical ethics: what...
- 2 weeks ago4 min
#8 Companion Caregiver Myths, Real Limits
Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to get stuck as a caregiver is to cling to “simple” legal lines that feel protective but turn out to be misleading. We are taking a short midweek pause to unpack a past conversation on caregiver misconceptions and to give you a practical tool you can use right away: a companion worksheet built for real life, not perfect timelines. We zoom back in on the big myths that routinely derail families, including misunderstandings about HIPAA, guardianship, capa...
- 3 weeks ago1h 3m
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 ...
- 3 weeks ago4 min
#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 weeks ago1h 5m
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...
- 4 weeks ago3 min
#6 Companion Who Gets To Decide When Minds Are Unsteady
Send us Fan Mail Client choice can feel like a clean principle right up until the moment symptoms surge, risk rises, and everyone around the person feels responsible for the outcome. I walk through why that moment becomes an ethical tightrope for legal advocates, clinicians, providers, peers, and family members and how quickly “help” can turn into control when we confuse disagreement with incapacity. If you care about mental health advocacy, disability rights, informed consent, and ethical cr...
- Oct 1, 202649 min
Allan Houston and Tamara Houston: What Does Radical Acceptance Look Like At Home
Send us Fan Mail A hospital discharge can look like “problem solved” on paper while a family is still staring at the real question: where does our loved one safely go next? We sit down with Allan and Tamara Houston for a candid, grounded conversation about opening their home to Tamara’s sister Jill during a crisis, while raising seven kids and trying to keep their household steady. What unfolds is a rare look at family caregiving that is both tender and practical. We talk about the moment th...
About Holding It Together (Kinda)
Holding It Together (Kinda) is for people who look like they have it handled on the outside while knowing damn well it’s messier underneath. Host Michael Mackniak has honest conversations with caregivers, clinicians, advocates, experts, authors, and people who have learned something worth sharing by actually living through it. We talk about caregiving, mental health, illness, loss, relationships, broken systems, difficult choices, and those moments when you find yourself wondering: What the hell do I do now? The conversations are direct, curious, occasionally irreverent, and willing to go beyond the polished advice and easy answers. No pretending everything happens for a reason. No seven easy steps to fixing your life. Just real conversations about the things that happen to us, the choices we make, what we can control, what we can’t—and what comes next. Because most of us are holding it together. Kinda.
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