Holding It Together (Kinda)

By Michael Mackniak, Esq

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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.


Episode Date
The Thin Line Between Care And Control
Oct 22, 2026
The Kidz Are Alright (Kinda) with My Kids
Oct 20, 2026
#8 Companion Caregiver Myths, Real Limits
Oct 20, 2026
Nesh Pillay: Be Kind To Little Man
Oct 15, 2026
#7 Companion Caregiver Burnout Is Information
Oct 13, 2026
Claude Racine: Postpartum Is Not The Baby Blues
Oct 08, 2026
#6 Companion Who Gets To Decide When Minds Are Unsteady
Oct 06, 2026
Allan Houston and Tamara Houston: What Does Radical Acceptance Look Like At Home
Oct 01, 2026
#5 Companion If You Say Calm Down, We Fight
Sep 29, 2026
Annette: A Mother Learns That Survival Is Not The Same As Living
Sep 24, 2026
Reclaim Calm in the Chaos: Time Mastery with Walt Hampton
Sep 17, 2026
# 3 Episode Companion Memory Is Not A Care Plan When Stress Hits
Sep 15, 2026
Kala Allen Omeiza: I Got Bullied In An Autism Lab
Sep 10, 2026
Episode 2 Care Companion: You Can Love Them And Still Feel Worn Out
Sep 08, 2026
Justin Ray: Hospitals Without Walls
Sep 03, 2026
Episode 1 Companion: Six Hospitals Later And Everyone Still Acts Surprised
Sep 02, 2026
Communication and the Cost of Silence
Aug 27, 2026
When The Doctor Becomes Family with Dr Mohamed Elziam
Aug 20, 2026
Elder Care Is A Life Plan with Shanika Batchelor
Aug 13, 2026
The Dilemmas of Addiction
Aug 06, 2026
The Great Earwax Contraband Caper with Jolene Breinig
Jul 30, 2026
The Future Proof Parent: Special Needs Planning Without Panic with Rebecca Iantuonni
Jul 23, 2026
Understanding Hoarding
Jul 16, 2026
All the Wrong Doors
Jul 09, 2026
Set Boundaries And Still Love Them with Dr Michelle Sherman author of Loving Someone with Mental Illness
Jul 02, 2026
Caregiver Stress Reset with Alicia Feller
Jun 25, 2026
Make The Strawberry Bunny Then Eat It with Kathy Micheel
Jun 18, 2026
Is This Mushroom Edible with Emerson Kerr
Jun 11, 2026
Why Your Brain Wants Jelly Beans with Dr Matthew Galati
Jun 04, 2026
A Daughter’s Guide To Dementia and Caregiver Burnout Recovery
May 28, 2026
The Cloak of Client Choice
May 21, 2026
An Off Switch For Neurospicy Brains with Danniel Worthen Cullumber
May 14, 2026
Caregiver Grief And The Pain Of Loving Someone Who Changed with Dr. Joann Schaeffer, Author of The Unspoken Side of Grief
Apr 30, 2026
6 Hospitals. 2 States. 9 Months
Apr 23, 2026
MIGMA: Make Involuntary Guardianship Mandatory Again!! With Rebecca Iantuonni
Apr 07, 2026