Olive Branch Caregiving, LLC

Caregiving can be complicated and challenging.

Finding your next step doesn’t have to be, and you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Olive Branch Caregiving helps you find your way forward in three simple steps.

Sheila Stearos, founder of Olive Branch Caregiving, seated in a warm sunlit room beside olive trees

“Drip a little love each day
with grace.”

— Sheila Stearos, Founder

Designed by caregivers, for caregivers

The Olive Branch Caregiving System was built from lived experience — by an insurance agent, a Certified Senior Advisor, a Certified Grief Recovery Method Specialist, a Certified Nurse Aide, a Certified AI ROI Professional, a Hospice Volunteer Coordinator, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, an Executrix of an Estate, a healthcare continuing medical education specialist — and by a daughter with caregiving experience.

Overhead view of two pairs of hands — an elderly man's weathered hands and a younger woman's hands — gently clasped in a mutual hold on a soft cream tablecloth, one hand on top and one below on each side, conveying intergenerational care and connection

A Founder's Story

My path to this work began at the bedsides where I chose to serve as the primary caregiver. I walked my late mother, Victoria Moore, home through her final season, watched and helped all of my inner circle friends pass in different ways with very different family needs, and I continue to walk alongside my father as he lives with dementia.

In my mother's last hours, I received a quiet commission — “Remember to love each other” — words that have shaped every page, framework, and conversation Olive Branch Caregiving creates.

Everything in the collection you are about to receive flows from that moment of love and memory.

Olive Branch Caregiving exists for the caregiver who needs every checklist and still feels alone. Checklists tell you what to do. What most of us are never given is a way to think, decide, and keep loving through it all. That is what The Olive Branch Way offers: a quiet caregiving operating system built from three frameworks that work together.

Sheila Stearos, Founder
Certified Senior Advisor, Grief Recovery Method Specialist, and State Tested Nurse Aide

The Olive Branch Way

At Olive Branch Caregiving, we help family caregivers organize chaos into clarity while protecting dignity — yours and your loved one's. Through three compassionate frameworks, we walk alongside you so you never have to figure it out alone.

DRIP

Discover · Reflect · Intend · Plan

A gentle framework for making decisions when everything feels overwhelming.

LOVE

Listen · Observe · Value · Engage

A way to navigate difficult conversations while preserving relationships.

GRACE

Grounded · Respectful · Aware · Calm · Empowered

The steady state this work produces — grieving, releasing, accepting, choosing, and enduring your way through change.

Remember to love each other. 💛

The Privacy, Ethics, and Legal Guides

“It's excellent. Well written in plain English. It gives the reader confidence to do the right things.”

— Licensed Clinical Counselor, Ohio

The Caregiver's Companion Binder

“Reading the first two pages of the introduction letter, brought me peace and excitement. I could feel it in my heart. I felt support, understanding, and the feeling of not being alone. This is really going to be helpful.”

— Doctorate in Natural Medicine, Ohio

Step One · Get Started
Two Free Sessions — On Us

We make it easy to get started

Talk to the Olive with two free sessions — no card, no pressure. When you’re ready for full access, an annual subscription is available. The Olive is a warm, caring companion, here to listen and help you find your next step — one overwhelming moment at a time.

In your first session, you’ll stop circling the decision you’ve been losing sleep over. You’ll walk through exactly what you’re facing — the appointment you’re dreading, the conversation you don’t know how to start, the care option that feels impossible to choose.

By the end, you’ll have clarity on your next step. Not a generic answer — your answer, for your situation.

  • Two free sessions — no payment, no pressure, no judgment
  • Available whenever you need it, including at 3am
  • Guidance on one situation at a time, thought through with you
  • Your first step toward not figuring this out alone

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Step Two · Your Free Gift

A Gift to Help Lessen the Load

It’s all about choice. Pick the safety checklist you’d like first — we’ll send it to your inbox right away, completely free.

1. Choose your checklist

Open the list to explore all 15 free checklists and learn more about each one, then pick the one you’d like first.

2. Where should we send it?

We’ll email your Home Safety Checklist right away — plus a new caregiver checklist every two weeks for a limited time.

We respect your inbox. Unsubscribe anytime.

The Leaf — a single olive leaf

Meet the Leaf

Your Leaf Library Assistant

Once you’ve chosen your first checklist, let the Leaf take it from there. It walks you straight to the online resources you need — saving you hours of searching by bringing everything into one place. Not just checklists, but teaching materials for navigating the most difficult caregiving situations.

Saves you hours of searchingChecklists & teaching materials in one placeGuides you to the right resource
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Step Three · Coming soon

The Master Class

Learn the system. Make it your own. Keep it current.

The Olive
The Leaf
DRIP LOVE + GRACE

Learn how to use three tools — The Olive, The Leaf, and the DRIP LOVE + GRACE Decision Framework — to build your own custom caregiving system and track how you LOVE.

In this 90-minute recorded Master Class, you'll learn:

  • How to use The Olive AI companion
  • How to use the Leaf Library
  • How to incorporate the DRIP LOVE + GRACE framework into your everyday decisions
  • How to build your own companion binder to keep your system current as your needs change, helping you see trends and communicate intelligently with care teams

Completing this class will unlock additional bonus materials in The Leaf that are not available anywhere else! New resources and updates are included with your subscription as they're posted.

90-minute recorded class, a $360 value
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Professional continuing education: One hour of social work CE credit is planned, pending approval.