More Happier: Caregiving Roundtable: How Do We Embrace Elder Care Without Losing Ourselves?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this Roundtable Conversation, we discuss caregiving. With actress and podcast host Yvette Nicole Brown, author and podcaster Courtney Martin, and AARP’s senior director of caregiving Rita Choula, we talk about the challenges and satisfactions of caregiving, and how planning can help. Resources & links related to this episode: Yvette Nicole Brown, Squeezed Courtney Martin, The Wise Unknown Rita Choula Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.7	Today's episode is a special episode.
1:38.3	It is the next in our roundtable conversation series.
1:40.9	And today, the topic is caregiving.
1:46.2	For many of us, we spend years planning for a career or a new home, but we do not pre-plan for the moment we become caregivers. Whether we're caring for a parent or a spouse
1:52.0	now or looking ahead to the future, caregiving is an experience that often arrives with a shock,
1:58.1	but it is something we can prepare and plan for. I'm Gretchen
2:02.2	Rubin, a writer who studies happiness in human nature. I'm host of the Happier with Gretchen
2:06.4	Rubin podcast and the author of many books, including the books The Happiness Project and
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