Love, Loss & Caregiving with Bruce Willis’ Wife, Emma Heming Willis

Love, Loss & Caregiving with Bruce Willis’ Wife, Emma Heming Willis

What happens when the person you love most slowly begins to disappear before your eyes? In this deeply emotional and inspiring conversation, Emma Heming Willis opens up about life with Bruce Willis following his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and how she turned heartbreak into purpose.


Joined by Helen Christoni, co-founder of Make Time Wellness, the two reveal why women’s brain health is so often ignored, what every caregiver needs to hear, and how to rediscover joy even in the hardest seasons of life.


👉 Watch now and learn how making time for yourself might just be the most powerful act of care there is.


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:54 How Helen and Emma created Make Time Wellness

04:47 Hormones, estrogen loss, and dementia risk

06:03 Helen’s personal connection to dementia

08:04 Starting Make Time as Bruce’s symptoms appeared

08:51 How Emma met Bruce Willis and first signs of FTD

12:05 Understanding anosognosia and early dementia signs

15:29 The meaning of ambiguous loss for caregivers

18:45 Practical tools and exercises for caregivers

20:37 Redefining self-care and “making time”

21:20 How others can help caregivers in real ways

24:09 The caregiving crisis and policy change needed

28:43 Gender roles and men’s perspective on caregiving

31:00 Make Time Wellness mission and products

34:49 Bruce Willis’s current condition and progression

38:20 How their daughters are coping and family life

39:24 Emma’s and Helen’s advice for caregivers

40:57 Wisdom bumper sticker

44:57 Closing reflections and gratitude


Learn more about MEA at ⁠https://www.meawisdom.com/


#EmmaHemingWillis #HelenChristoni #MidlifeCaregiving #WomensBrainHealth #CaregiverSupport #FrontotemporalDementia #DementiaAwareness #MakeTimeWellness #MidlifeResilience #SelfCareReimagined #MidlifeWisdom #WomenSupportingWomen #CaregivingJourney #FindingJoyAgain #ModernElderAcademy

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