For family caregivers
Built for the person holding everything together.
Lupine Care is a nonprofit for family caregivers navigating serious illness, anticipatory grief, and bereavement. We offer a free app, support groups, daily meditation, and a growing community of people who understand what you're carrying.
What we offer
Four ways to find what you need.
The exhaustion of caregiving deserves more than one kind of support. Lupine Care offers tools, community, and rest. Depending on what you need today.
The app, free
A free app for the medical chaos.
Organize your loved one's medical life so the next crisis doesn't catch you off guard. ER profile, medication list, care team contacts, visit log, family sharing. Shareable as a PDF when you walk into the hospital.
Support groups
Groups led by people who get it.
Weekly virtual groups for caregivers, facilitated by trained mental health professionals. Not therapy. Something more sustained. A place where what you're carrying doesn't need to be explained.
Caregiver dharma
A daily lunchtime sit.
Forty minutes of meditation on Zoom, every day at lunch. A contemplative practice shaped around what caregivers carry. Drop in any day. No experience needed.
Weekly notes
Words for people doing this work.
Somebody Has To, our weekly Substack, writes plainly about caregiving, grief, and the parts that don't make it into self-care articles. Free. No advice. Just honesty.
The framework
This isn't burnout. Something deeper is happening.
The exhaustion you feel isn't a failure of willpower. It's a biological signal. Caring for someone you love over months and years depletes the body's repair systems. The chemistry of connection, attunement, and rest. Your nervous system, doing its job, has been doing too much of it for too long.
The standard advice (ask for help, practice self-care) isn't wrong. It's just incomplete. You can't care for a self that has gradually disappeared into someone else's needs.
Our work is grounded in what we call the Compassionate Presence framework. A way of understanding caregiver depletion as a depletion of the body's connection chemistry, and a way of slowly restoring what's been spent. It informs the groups, the meditations, and everything we write.
You might recognize yourself here.
Who this is for
You already know you need support.
You're not here because someone made you come. You're here because what you're carrying deserves more than endurance.
- Adult children caring for an aging or ill parent, especially when the relationship is complicated
- Spouses and partners watching someone they love change under the weight of illness
- Cancer caregivers navigating the before, during, and after of a diagnosis
- Chosen family caregivers whose grief and labor goes unrecognized
- People who have been the strong one their whole life and are finally breaking
- Anyone who recognizes that what they're experiencing is grief, and needs a space where that grief is allowed to exist
About
On building what wasn't here.
Mimi Newman, AMFT
I came to this work through two paths that turned out to be the same path. As a therapist-in-training at Cancer Support Community Los Angeles, I began sitting with caregivers, and recognizing in them something I understood from the inside. The exhaustion. The guilt. The way love and resentment can sit side by side.
I started Lupine Care because I lived the problem, and because the support I wanted for myself didn't quite exist anywhere. Before clinical work, I spent a decade leading product design at companies including Microsoft, Shopify, and Hopper. Lupine Care is what happens when those two paths meet: care that's clinically grounded, technologically accessible, and built by someone who has been the person in the room holding everything.
- AMFT, California Board of Behavioral Sciences
- MA, Applied Psychology, Antioch University Los Angeles
- Clinical Practicum, Cancer Support Community Los Angeles
Partner with us
For clinicians, organizations, and partners.
Lupine Care collaborates with hospitals, hospice organizations, clinicians in private practice, and community partners who serve families navigating serious illness. We're a referral destination for caregivers whose needs fall outside what individual therapy or medical care can hold.
If you're a clinician interested in referring caregivers, joining a Lupine Care group as a facilitator, or partnering with us in another way, we'd love to hear from you.
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Lupine Care is a nonprofit.
Our programs are free or sliding-scale because caregivers shouldn't have to be able to afford support to receive it. Lupine Care is funded by foundations, individual donors, and partner organizations who believe the same.
If you'd like to support this work, or learn more about how Lupine Care is funded and governed, we'd be glad to be in conversation.
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