Caregiving Framework · Annie Wright, LMFT
The Seven Sources of Support
Annie’s seven-source map for caregiving sustainability: spousal redistribution, childcare help, workplace flexibility, family support, friends, professional services, community resources.
Annie’s seven-source map for caregiving sustainability: spousal redistribution, childcare help, workplace flexibility, family support, friends, professional services, community resources.
How The Seven Sources of Support Works
The Seven Sources of Support is Annie’s framework for sustainable caregiving. It maps the distribution of effort that makes caring for aging parents survivable while raising children and maintaining career.
- Spousal redistribution. renegotiate household and caregiving labor with a partner.
- Childcare help. paid or family support for parenting load.
- Workplace flexibility. explicit conversation with employer about caregiving constraints.
- Family support. siblings, in-laws, extended family who can take a defined role.
- Friends. social network that can carry specific tasks (meals, transport, sitting-with).
- Professional services. home health aides, geriatric care managers, hospice teams.
- Community resources. religious community, neighborhood, mutual aid networks.
Who The Seven Sources of Support Serves
driven women working with the proverbial house of life. Specifically, leaders, physicians, entrepreneurs, executives, and the women who have built impressive external lives but feel a heaviness internally.
Where The Seven Sources of Support Lives
The Seven Sources of Support appears in the following places in Annie’s clinical work:
- Individual therapy with Annie
- Executive coaching with Annie
- Annie’s forthcoming book, The Everything Years (W.W. Norton, 2027)
Citation
If you reference this framework in your work, please cite as:
Wright, Annie. (2026). The Seven Sources of Support. Annie Wright, LMFT. Retrieved from https://anniewright.com/seven-sources-of-support/
