359: How Chronic Caregiving Stress Alters Parent Physical Health, with Andrea Jones

Beautifully Complex · May 21, 2026 · 31m · transcript

Your body has been keeping score, and it may be time to listen.

So many of us are living in a state of constant caregiving stress, navigating the endless layers of raising a differently wired child. We are managing meltdowns, fighting for accommodations, fielding calls from school, and pouring ourselves out day after day. But here is what we do not talk about nearly enough: what all of that stress is quietly doing to our physical health.

In this episode, I sit down with Andrea Jones, a registered nurse, functional health practitioner, and fellow special needs parent, to have the honest…