GIVE CARE BACK INITIATIVE
An 8 -WEEK PROGRAM EXCLUSIVELY FOR CAREGIVERS
You've given everything.
Now it's your turn.
A structured, science-based transformation for Gen X and Baby Boomer women who have spent years caring for everyone else — and are ready to rebuild their strength, reclaim their identity, and design what comes next.
FOUNDING SPONSOR
Empowering women. Advancing change.
OUR MISSION
The Give Care Back Initiative exists to raise awareness about caregiver challenges and deliver vital wellness resources — exercise, nutrition, and personal development — to the women who need them most.
Give Care Back is built on our signature Healthy Women Rock program. Through the generous support of our sponsors and donors, we are able to offer this transformational experience affordably — making it accessible to the caregivers who need it most.
Does this sound familiar
You don't think of yourself
as a caregiver.
You think of yourself as a devoted wife. A loving daughter. A loyal friend. A dependable colleague.
You show up. You manage. You hold things together.
And somewhere in the middle of all of that showing up — you stopped showing up for yourself. Not all at once. Through a thousand small surrenders, so gradual you didn't notice until one day you looked up and couldn't remember the last time you did something just because you wanted to.
That is what caregiving does. And most people never give it that name.
"53 million Americans are unpaid family caregivers. Most of them never see themselves in that word — and that invisibility is exactly where the damage begins."
If you have cared for a spouse, a parent, a child, or a friend through illness, decline, or crisis — your body kept score. Your identity quietly contracted. Your health became the thing you'd get to eventually.
This program exists because eventually is now.
Before I knew the word caregiver, I experienced the consequences of self-neglect.
My soft spoken mother, Gertie, was a chronic asthmatic who carried the weight of providing for our family while managing her health silently — never asking for help, never letting on how serious things had become.
Mama, was alone when she died. A sudden heart attack, at 42. I didn't know she had a heart condition. Neither did anyone else. I discovered the hospital paperwork in a drawer while going through her things — she had been told she needed to be admitted, but she hadn't told a soul.
When I found her, she had collapsed on the edge of her bed. Her eyes were still open. I sat beside her for a long time. I was only 16. Eventually, I placed my hand over her eyes to close them. I have never forgotten that moment.
Looking back, I often wonder what might have been different if there had been more support for women like my mother. Give Care Back is my answer to that question. It is personal. It is an opportunity to make a difference for someone else — before it's too late.
What most people don't know
The losses no one warned you about
Identity
Caregivers lose their sense of self so gradually they don't notice until it's gone. By the time caregiving ends, many don't know who they are or what they want. The person they were before — their ambitions, their friendships, their sense of possibility — has disappeared through a thousand small surrenders.
Physical Health
Caregivers experience significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, weight gain, hypertension, and chronic illness. They delay their own medical care and skip their own medications. Researchers have a phrase for what happens when this goes unaddressed: "the caregiver dies first."
Financial Security
The average family caregiver loses $300,000+ in lifetime wages, Social Security benefits, and retirement savings — most without realizing the accumulation until it's too late. Without the vocabulary of caregiving, these losses go untracked, undocumented, and unrecovered.
You didn't cause any of this. But you can change what happens next.
The 12-Week Give Care Back Program
A complete restoration —
mind, body, and self.
Four integrated phases. One transformational arc. Exclusively for Caregivers
RESET
You've been in survival mode. Before anything can be rebuilt, the nervous system needs to be restored. Through guided meditation, breath-work, and daily reset practices, you'll begin to regulate, stabilize, and return to yourself.
- Bi-weekly Group Sharing Sessions
- Guided meditation and breath-work
- Daily reset practices and emotional regulation tools
Outcome: A calmer mind, improved focus, and renewed internal stability.
RECEIVE
This is the phase most caregivers have never experienced. Through curated self-care experiences, guided reflection, and tools for releasing the guilt of self-prioritization, you'll learn — perhaps for the first time — how to receive.
- Weekly Personal Growth Sessions
- Guided reflection and journaling
- Self-worth practices and permission tools
Outcome: Restored energy, emotional replenishment, and a shift in self-worth.
Rebuild
With a restored foundation, you rebuild physical and metabolic strength through science-based fitness training, nutrition guidance, and structured support for endurance and mobility.
- 8 semi-private in-studio personal training sessions
- Customized nutrition and meal plans
- 8-week virtual fitness membership — M–Sat
Outcome: Increased strength, improved energy, and a more resilient body.
Reclaim
Who were you before? Who are you becoming? Through identity coaching, exploration of personal desires and purpose, and action steps toward your next chapter — you reconnect with yourself and begin designing what comes next.
- Next Chapter Coaching Sessions
- Personal Evolution Method framework
- Action planning for your next life chapter
Outcome: Renewed confidence, clarity of direction, and reconnection to self.
Who leads this program
70+ years of combined experience —
lived and professional.
Madeline McCray
Actress | Creative Mindset Coach
Creator, Holistic Personal Evolution Method
Madeline, 72, didn't think of herself as a caregiver — until she lost her beloved husband Jerry to bladder cancer in 2018 while simultaneously serving as healthcare proxy for her dear friend Terrie, whose dementia advanced to Alzheimer's rapidly, requiring her to make impossible decisions while grieving two people she loved at once. With 50 years across the entertainment industry, holistic wellness, and character development, she helps women design and embody their next chapter. She built this program because she lived it. She knows what caregiving costs. She knows how to help you stay strong and evolve.
Terahshea "TJ" McCray
Medical Exercise Specialist | Holistic Lifestyle Coach Owner, Fit to Be Fab Studio for Women
Terahshea wasn't a bystander. He cared for his stepfather, carried Jerry when his legs could no longer hold him, and held his mother steady. With 30+ years of experience and advanced training in corrective and medical exercise, Terahshea designs science-based programs for women rebuilding strength, metabolism, and vitality in their 40s, 50s, up to clients in their 80s. He is the author of Reclaim Your Physical Power and owner of Fit to Be Fab Studio for Women in Scotch Plains, NJ. He has lived what his clients carry. He knows what caregiving does to the body. He knows how to rebuild it.
Read this slowly
This program is
for you if...
If you read that list and felt seen — you're exactly who this program was created for.
Enrollment by Application Only
This program was built
for you.
* Exclusively for Caregivers
Because this program is offered at a significant discount exclusively for caregivers, enrollment requires a brief application. This ensures every participant is in the right place — and that the community built around this experience is one of genuine mutual recognition and support.
Limited Spots Available
Fit to Be Fab Studio, Scotch Plains, NJ
To apply, email givecareback@mccrayfitness.com
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Qualified applicants will be contacted within 48 hours.
This program is made possible through the support of aligned brands and organizations committed to caregiver wellness. Your sponsorship directly underwrites access for women who have spent years giving — and are ready to receive. View the full sponsor proposal →
"You gave. Consistently. Completely. Often invisibly.
Now let us give something back."
— Madeline McCray, Founder, Give Care Back
–– Terahshea McCray, Owner, Fit to Be Fab Studio for Women
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