This is Your Brain on Mom
Episodes
When Dementia Doesn’t Look Like Alzheimer’s: FTD, Language Loss & Behavioral Changes”
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if it’s not Alzheimer’s? In this powerful and deeply relatable conversation, we sit down with Alma Valencia — sandwich generation caregive...
Memory Miles: Alzheimer’s, Mental Health & The Grief That Starts Before Goodbye
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When someone you love is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the grief doesn’t wait for the end. It begins immediately — and it repeats. In this powerf...
The Signs We Missed: Early Alzheimer’s, Long-Distance Caregiving & Fighting for a Diagnosis
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What are the early signs of Alzheimer’s and dementia that families often miss? In this deeply personal episode, we sit down with Madeline, a long-di...
Living on a Closed Dementia Ward at 21 | A Conversation with Teun Toebes
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if dementia isn’t a care crisis — but a societal one? In this powerful episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we sit down with Teun Toebes,...
Do You Want to Know? Living Out Loud After an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is different — and deeply important. We sit down with David Uhlfelder, an advocate & podcast host living with dementia. David w...
There Is No Roadmap for Aging (So Here’s How to Build One)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we’re joined by Kelly Baarley, a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) with over a decade of experience i...
She Still Knows the Words: Music and Dementia
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Music has a way of reaching places that words — and even memory — sometimes can’t. In this episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we explore th...
Raising Kids While Caring for Parents: A Lifetime of Caregiving
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by Edina, a lifelong caregiver whose story spans generations, diagnoses, and deeply personal responsibility. Adina fo...
Yes, and...
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Caregiving for a loved one living with Alzheimer’s often feels like trying to follow a script that keeps changing — sometimes minute by minute. I...
Sibling Dynamics in Caregiving
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when siblings aren’t just siblings—but part parents, part roommates, part emotional support systems? In this episode, Wendy & Barry ...
Holding the Holidays While Letting Go
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The holidays are supposed to be magical — but when you’re caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s, they can be anything but.In this heartfelt an...
When Humor Is the Only Thing Holding Us Together
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode opens with a family classic: Barry admits (for the second time) to leaving Mom at the airport — “like a matzo ball” — setting t...
Running on Empty
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, “Running on Empty,” Wendy and Barry check in from a place many dementia caregivers quietly live in: emotional depletion, constant...
Caregiver-Approved Gift Guide for Dementia
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we dive into the top gift ideas for people living with dementia — curated from real-life experience...
Finding Balance When Life Won’t Slow Down
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we sit down with caregiver advocate and podcast host Mikayla Cluxton for a funny, honest, and deeply ...
“You Should Visit More” and Other Things We Don’t Need to Hear
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on This Is Your Brain On Mom, things take a hilarious turn — because apparently our mom has become… a joiner. Bingo champion. Artist. ...
The Ripple Effect
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when Alzheimer’s doesn’t just affect the person living with it—but everyone connected to them? In this episode of This Is Your Br...
Meet Mom: An Interview Before Alzheimer’s Took the Stage
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, Barry sits down with our mom — the woman who started it all. Before memory loss became part o...
Grieving Before Goodbye — Loving Through Alzheimer’s “Pre-Grief”
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this milestone 10th episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, siblings Wendy and Barry open up about one of the hardest and least-talked-about parts o...
Why Is Mom So Angry?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9 of This Is Your Brain on Mom, siblings Barry and Wendy dive deep into one of the hardest — and most confusing — parts of caring fo...
Wendy is Mom's Favorite Color
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the doctor asked our mom what her favorite color was, she didn’t say blue, green, or pink. She said, “My daughter.”So… apparently, I’...
Meet Barry – The Brother, The Caregiver, The Comedian
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the sibling in the background finally takes the mic?In this week’s episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, Wendy puts her brother B...
Back to the Hospital
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mom had just received the word “Alzheimer’s” — and that very same night, she fell. In this episode of This Is Your Brain on Mom, we dive in...
The Diagnosis (sort of)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We finally had the CT scan results. We had a “diagnosis.” We had a caregiving schedule that seemed to work. And we were exhausted — did we real...
The Move
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mom’s move into semi-assisted living in Quebec turned out to be far more complicated than expected. From the impossible caregiving schedule it c...
March 14th
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We thought we were simply taking Mom out for a celebratory family dinner. Instead, we witnessed the first unmistakable signs that something deeper was...
The Gut Feeling
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the carefully planned rehab routines to the subtle cognitive changes that didn’t feel like Mom, this chapter of our dementia journey is w...
She Broke Her Ankle and Forgot How To Use a Phone
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Your Brain on Mom, sibling co-hosts open up about the unexpected beginning of their mother’s dementia journey — a journey that didn’t st...
Welcome to "This is your brain on Mom"
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Your Brain on Mom, sibling co-hosts share the unexpected beginning of their mother’s dementia journey — a journey that didn’t start with...