VIRTUAL: The Caregiving Layer: When Your Parents Need You, Too
Motherhood has a way of revealing the layers no one fully prepares you for.
One day, you are managing nap schedules, preschool forms, and the thousand invisible tasks that shape daily life with little kids. The next, you are also navigating a parent’s surgery, health scare, decline, or the quiet realization that the people who have always been your safety net may need support from you now, too.
It is a shift many women are living through, but not nearly enough are talking about.
Join us for a thoughtful virtual conversation with Caroline Schrank, Founder of Ripple and a licensed funeral director, for an honest look at what it means to mother young children while also beginning to navigate the realities of aging parents, family logistics, anticipatory grief, and the emotional load that comes with holding both.
This conversation is designed to feel grounding, practical, and deeply human. We will talk about the things that often go unspoken, from how to begin hard conversations with parents and siblings, to the practical documents and decisions that can make a difficult season less chaotic, to the very real experience of parenting while carrying concern, uncertainty, or loss in the background.
Whether you are actively in it, quietly sensing it, or simply want to feel more prepared for what may come, this is an opportunity to learn, reflect, and be in conversation with other women navigating a similar layer of life.
Caroline is a licensed funeral director and AAMI graduate who has spent years walking alongside families through their hardest days. Time and again, she saw people struggling not just with grief, but with everything that comes after: meals no one coordinates, yard work that piles up, paperwork that overwhelms, isolation that sets in when casseroles stop coming. Caroline knew families needed more than a funeral service - they needed community, ongoing support, and practical help.
What we’ll explore:
✨ The emotional reality of caring for young children while supporting aging parents
✨ How to start the conversations most families avoid, before urgency makes them harder
✨ The practical pieces that matter, from medical proxies to shared family clarity
✨ The hidden load of anticipatory grief, shifting family roles, and “holding it together”
✨ How to think about legacy, memory, and preserving connection across generations
✨ Ways a community can show up with real support when someone is in the thick of it
What to expect:
✨ A candid, intelligently guided conversation with Caroline
✨ Practical perspective you can apply now, not just later
✨ Space for reflection, questions, and connection with other women
✨ A fresh way into a conversation that is often avoided, but deeply needed