Brain Health and Caregiving: What Every Family Needs to Know with Emma Heming Willis & Helen Christoni
About this episode
This episode discusses brain health and caregiving, highlighting the experiences of Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni in navigating these critical issues.
Brain health is one of the most overlooked parts of women’s wellness — and that needs to change. In this episode of HEAL with Kelly, I sit down with Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni, co-founders of Make Time Wellness, to talk about brain health, caregiving, and the early signs of cognitive change that are so often overlooked or explained away. We also dive into Emma’s powerful book, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path, which offers a deeply personal and practical guide for anyone navigating the caregiving path. Her reflections on love, resilience, and the invisible weight caregivers carry are both eye-opening and profoundly human. We explore how dementia can show up in unexpected ways, why women are disproportionately affected, and what happens when families are left without clear answers or guidance. Emma opens up about navigating her husband Bruce’s diagnosis, learning how to speak honestly with her children, and what caregiving really looks like behind the scenes. Helen shares what led them to create Make Time Wellness — and why women’s brain health has been missing from the wellness conversation for far too long. We also…
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