Latest PostOctober 15, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
Take the Pause
On Angela Lee's podcast, I shared the one thing I most want parents to hear: you are allowed to pause, write your questions down, and ask before you decide.
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October 8, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
What It Means to Be Seen
A letter from my youngest's school got me thinking through a public health lens and as a mom. Being seen starts with someone noticing, and sometimes it starts with you saying, look at me.
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July 4, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
Letting myself be seen.
I spent years asking the world to truly see my children. Launch week was the moment I finally let it see me.
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June 3, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
The last few weeks before.
The book is almost here. It is finished, the proof is in my hands, but it is not in the world yet. I want to be honest about what is underneath the wait.
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June 2, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
The courage was never in the loving.
People keep calling me brave. For loving my son. For supporting him. Then I heard a line from Anne Hathaway that named something I had never been able to say out loud.
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May 29, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
Mental health is not a casserole disease.
Meg sat down at a lunch counter, opened this book, and almost broke down in tears on the first page. She's been navigating her family's mental health journey for years. What she said about this book stopped me.
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May 27, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
Hope and grief are not mutually exclusive.
Some weeks of this caregiving life have held more contradictions than I knew a person could hold.
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May 23, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
What early readers see.
Something I did not expect when I shared the manuscript of Fighting for Their Lives with early readers: how often someone would say back to me the thing I most needed to hear.
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May 20, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
When my child taught me something.
For years, I thought my job as my oldest's mom was to teach him how to navigate the world. What I missed was that the lessons were flowing in the other direction too.
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May 15, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes
Let people surprise you.
A little over a year ago, I left my last role to fight for my middle child's right to the educational supports and placement he needed.
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