DiscoverWellness: Rebranded - Intuitive eating, diet culture, mental health, weight training, food freedom, food relationship163. Inside a Caregiver’s Heart: Finding Rest, Grace, and Strength When Life Hurts with Andy Schindling
163. Inside a Caregiver’s Heart: Finding Rest, Grace, and Strength When Life Hurts with Andy Schindling

163. Inside a Caregiver’s Heart: Finding Rest, Grace, and Strength When Life Hurts with Andy Schindling

Update: 2025-11-12
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What happens when the one holding everything together starts to fall apart?

In this episode we’re having a powerful conversation about what it really means to care for others without losing yourself in the process.


We’re joined by Andy Schindling, founder and CEO of TCP (The Complete Player) Youth Empowerment and one of our incredible podcast sponsors. Andy opens up about his personal experience as a caregiver while his wife undergoes breast cancer treatment, and what it’s taught him about emotional resilience, asking for help, and redefining achievement through rest and grace.


This episode is sponsored by TCP Youth Empowerment. We’re proud to partner with a team leading with heart on the court, in classrooms, and in the community.


In this episode:

  • The overlooked reality of caregivers: stress, sleep loss, and feeling unseen

  • Andy’s biggest lessons: put the phone down, ask for help, take time off

  • Why rest isn’t lazy, it’s leadership

  • How self-compassion helps you show up stronger for others

  • The healing power of nature, prayer, and reflection

  • “Self-care snacks”: small, doable acts that recharge your energy

  • Redefining achievement beyond hustle culture

  • Letting go of control and finding peace in uncertainty


About our guest & how to support TCP

TCP Youth Empowerment (The Complete Player) provides after-school, in-school, and summer programs designed to help youth build confidence, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence—fostering lifelong growth in and out of the classroom.


Website: tcpyouthempowerment.org


Instagram/Facebook: @tcpYouthEmpowerment


X: @tcpYE


LinkedIn: The Complete Player Charity or Andy Schindling


 


Tune into My Entrepreneurial Life hosted by Jen Hawat for a behind the scenes look at building, launching and growing your online business! https://www.jenhowat.com/podcast


This episode was brought to you by Leading Lady Coaching. Learn more here: https://leadinglady-coaching.com/


 


Connect with us! 


 


The Ultimate Self Care Planner: https://elizabethharrisnutrition.ck.page/9e817ab37e


 


Elizabeth Harris, MS, RDN, LDN


FB: Health and Healing with Intuitive Eating community


https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthandhealingwithintuitiveeating


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ElizabethHarrisNutrition


Free download to break up with diet culture: https://elizabethharrisnutrition.com/invisible-diet


 


Tara De Leon, Master Personal Trainer


Email: FitnessTrainer19@hotmail.com


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tara_de_leon_fitness

Join Tara’s Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/5290e3f13e08/email-signup


 


Maria Winters, LCPC, NCC


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coaching_therapist/


FB: https://www.facebook.com/MWcoachingtherapy


Website: www.thecoachingtherapist.com

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163. Inside a Caregiver’s Heart: Finding Rest, Grace, and Strength When Life Hurts with Andy Schindling

163. Inside a Caregiver’s Heart: Finding Rest, Grace, and Strength When Life Hurts with Andy Schindling

Elizabeth Harris, Tara De Leon, Maria Winters