Dancing With Dementia™
Welcome to Dancing With Dementia™—the go-to podcast for young and atypical caregivers navigating the challenges of caring for a loved one with a chronic illness.
I’m Kama Newbry, a nurse, coach, educator, advocate, and daughter turned caregiver after my mom was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s in my early 30s. Like so many, I struggled to find support tailored to young caregivers—those of us balancing careers, identity, family dynamics, and deep soul shifts… all while caregiving.
This podcast is your compassionate resource for:
- Caregiver wellness tips
- Emotional and energetic tools
- Practical strategies for caregiving of all kinds, including dementia
- Mind-body healing and burnout prevention
- Community connection for young caregivers, AKA, "Caregivers on the Dancefloor of Life™"
Whether your loved one is at home, in assisted living, or in a care facility, this space is for you.
We explore everything from self-care and intuitive caregiving to grief, advocacy, spirituality, energy medicine, and the very real ups and downs of showing up for someone you love.
Our mission? To infuse love, light, levity, and joy into the caregiver journey—while offering grounded support, powerful conversations, and actionable tips, tricks, tools, and resources you can use right away!
Because you’re not just surviving—you’re rising.
Join us on the Caregiver Dancefloor of Life, where together, WE RISE!
Dancing With Dementia™
Michelle Obama Arms & SoulFish Self-Love: Brain Health & Blood Sugar! The Booty & Brains Origin Story (Part 1 of 3)
Hey hey, beautiful caregiver souls!
Did you know research shows that the effects of dementia can begin in the brain 20+ years before symptoms appear? Today’s guest is about to light up your mind, your heart, and your soul!
Meet Rachel Daugherty from Booty & Brains—a vibrant, radiant voice in the wellness world who turned her mother’s Alzheimer's diagnosis into a mission for brain-first, soul-aligned living. In this powerful kickoff to our 3-part series, Rachel shares how caregiving cracked her open, changed her life, and taught her the deep connection between metabolic health and the mind.
🧠✨WE TALK:✨🧠
- Preventative self-care is a love letter to your future self. What you do now matters!
- Alzheimer’s isn’t all genetics—it’s metabolic too. Lifestyle, stress, and daily choices play a huge role. The cascade can start decades before symptoms.
- Reparenting while caregiving is real—and it's powerful. Kama shares how caring for her mom gave her the chance to reparent the self.
- Laughter, levity, and weirdness are medicine. Rachel brings science with sparkle and proves self-love can be fun, weird, and wildly effective.
- Young caregivers and feeling “too young” for the weight of it all.
- Why squats, self-love lemonade, and Michelle Obama arms matter.
- How our future self is always watching, cheering, and waiting!
This is a story of resilience, realness, and radiant transformation. Thank you for dancing with us today!
🧠✨JOIN RACHEL for MORE!✨🧠
- From Stuck to Strong: The Metabolic Rebuild for Brain & Body is open for registration!
- Learn how to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s while creating sustainable practices that transform your body and brain.
- Class begins April 27th — and if you’re listening after that, don’t worry! Doors stay open just a little longer.
🧠 Register at bootyandbrains.co or @bootyandbrains.co on Instagram🧠
Until Part 2:
💖 Be kind to your past self.💖
🥂 Toast your future self. 🥂
💃🏻 And keep dancing with all the light & love you’ve got.💃🏻
💖SHARE THE LOVE!💖 If DWD touches your heart, please share it with another caregiver! And subscribe, rate, and review to help others find this community of light, love, and advocacy.
💃🏻Have topic requests, want to nominate a guest, or book a 1:1 consultation with me? Connect with us at SynergyRising.Life!💃🏻
🎧 Available on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts 🎧
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💃🏻✨💃🏻 Special Announcement:💃🏻✨💃🏻
Enrollment opens soon for Caregivers Rising—The Program for Caregivers who want to THRIVE, not just survive! Join us at SynergyRising.Life to be notified with the Priority List Opens!