Caregiving Influencer Jacquelyn Joyce Revere’s Journey of Love and Resilience

With her mom still relatively healthy, Revere fully embraced her caregiving duties. Her main goal: bring joy to her loving mother. “I was just able to create a life that my mother and myself loved. But that only comes with extreme acceptance of the role that you are in.”

In 2020, Revere turned to social media as an outlet for fun and self-care. Her TikTok @MomofMyMom — named because her mother started calling her “Mommy” — started during the COVID shutdown to keep her mom socially engaged and “still make our days meaningful and fun.” And it kept growing.

The site includes short videos of Revere performing everyday caregiving tasks for her mom mixed with silly and playful shorts of the mother-daughter duo dancing, hugging and laughing. “I think we offered a fun, inclusive, joyful, loving way to learn what care is,” she says. “We talk about care. We show care. I also really hope to build the morale of the caregivers that follow me,” she says.

After six years of caregiving, Revere’s mom unexpectedly died in March 2022 of a heart attack. Still, through her lingering grief, she continues to raise awareness of the tireless work of caregivers to her 860K social media followers across all sites, including Instagram and Facebook.

“Caring for my mother has made me think about my own care nonstop,” she says. “I am very aware of the lack of social supports, the lack of societal understanding of the needs [and] the lack of funding.”

“There are 59 million unpaid family caregivers in our country right now, and these numbers are only going to increase,” she says. “And so, putting your time and efforts into understanding the future of care … will not only change the culture and the way we see each other as humans, because we realize the preciousness of life, but…. putting our time towards this will make us better people.”