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Thriving podcast is a twice-monthly evidence-based resource to support unpaid and working caregivers with understanding the emotions they experience and help them to develop emotional resilience and psychological flexibility.
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This week I am exploring the term “Toxic Positivity”; why it is important to recognise when this might be happening to you OR if you are doing it to others. Then lastly, how to reframe your thinking if this is something that is negatively impacting your life.
This week I am exploring the term “Carer or Caregiver Addition” and how it can be possible to become addicted to caring for others but for your own emotional benefit; why it is important to recognise when this might be happening and how you can refocus on building a meaningful life, outside of unpaid caring, to meet those emotional needs.
This week I am exploring 'Controlling the controllable and let the rest go'. In the first section, I am talking about what control is and what is the difference between control and influence. Then I will be looking at why it is important to recognise the impact trying to control events can have on your psychological wellbeing and then finally I explore how you can change the way you approach situations, that can be better for your own mental and physical wellbeing.
In this article, I will briefly outline some of the reasons for the change and provide an overview of the new approach we will taking and how these will be delivered.
This is the second of a two-part series in May, exploring and celebrating the power of music. In this week’s article I share my interview with Laura Atyeo, Founder of Open Harmony, as we discuss how different elements of music can help different people to find joy, support and friendship.
This is the first of a two-part series in May, exploring and celebrating the power of music. In this week’s article, I am exploring how music can be a free, simple but very effective tool for helping you to reduce the psychological and physical effects of prolonged stress; how you can experience positive emotions such as flow and some questions to help you discover how much music could support you as an unpaid or working caregiver.
This week I am exploring the emotional and psychological elements of caring for a friend or loved one from a distance and provide some activities to manage and reduce the guilt and stress that can be associated with being a carer or caregivers in these circumstances.
This week, we are very fortunate to have with us as a guest, Michele Grant. Michele is a very experienced trainer and coach and she will be explaining more about vicarious trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue, this builds on the overview I did in the podcast on the 17th of February. Then Michele will go through three key things that we can think about and consider as to whether or not we are experiencing compassion fatigue, and what we can do to become aware of it and to take positive action. So, I really hope you enjoyed this interview, it is really insightful and very interesting.
If you would like to read the blog overview version of this interview please click hereThis is the third and final interview in the series for March Male Carers Month and we are really lucky to have Brian Day with us today. Brian is a husband, father, and a working carer and campaigner supporting working carers in his workplace and across lots of different government departments.
If you would like to read the blog overview version of this interview please click hereWARNING TRIGGERING CONTENT: I will be referring to death by suicide in this podcastThis week I am exploring why it matters to recognise and support men’s mental wellbeing; how we are doing this in “March Male Carers Month 2021” and how we would like to continue with this in the future, by collaborating with carers support groups and organisations supporting men’s mental health.
If you would like to read the blog overview version of this interview please click here March Male Carers Month - Interview with David and RicharWelcome to the second interview in our March Male Carers Month series of interviews and workshops supporting the mental wellbeing of male carers. Today's interview is with David and Richard. David is Richard's carer, but Richard himself has also been a carer, both as a young carer and as an adult. They share very honest and open experiences about being carers and also being a cared-for-person, which is very insightful and helpful to understand how it can be different for male carers when interacting with social care, and professional bodies, say nurses and doctors, and professions like that, but also as male gay carers. It's a different dynamic again, and it's a very interesting interview. So, please do listen, and I hope you enjoy...
If you would like to read the blog overview version of this interview please click hereMarch Male Carers Month - Interview with Greg Smith, Founder of Men Care TooWelcome to the first interview in Carers’ Hearts series ‘March Male Carers Month’. We are fortunate to have Greg Smith the founder of Men Care Too in Australia, join us today, so let’s go…
This week I am so pleased to be able to share the launch of our first focus month, “March Male Carers Month”. We have a whole month of interviews and workshops, supporting the mental wellbeing of male carers. In the UK male unpaid carers represent nearly 50% of individuals providing care for a loved one or friend. However, they are less likely to self-identify as an unpaid or working carer, there is very little research into the emotional and psychological challenges experienced by male carers and there few groups specifically to support them. So, for our inaugural focus month, we want to shine a light on the mental wellbeing of male carers and have created a series of interviews with male unpaid and working carers and will be hosting two free one-hour workshops, specifically for male carers, discussing mental health first aid and mental fitness, run by two very experienced male coaches who specialise in male mental wellbeing.
This week I am exploring what the term ‘Compassion Fatigue’ means in the caring context, why it is important to recognise its effect on your physical and psychological wellbeing and provide some activities to manage and reduce it.
This week I am exploring what the phrase ‘Carers or Caregivers Stress Syndrome’ means, why it is important to recognise its effect on your physical and psychological wellbeing and provide some activities and exercises to manage it.
This week I am exploring how you can start or continue a conversation with your line manager or employer about being a working carer; why it is important to have that conversation for both of you, even if it might seem daunting, and some suggestions and resources to prepare, which will help to reduce negative thoughts and feelings, give you more confidence and hopefully, result in a positive outcome for you and them.
This week I am sharing an overview of the three phases of the caring journey, what aspects of caring each one is likely to cover, why it is useful to know what challenges each phase might bring and finally, some resources, activities and exercises, to support you as you enter and transition between them.
Happy New Year. This is the first day of my personal challenge, RESET 2021 and fundraising year for Thanet Disabled Riding Centre.
If you would like to read the version of this blog, please click hereThis is the fourth, and last day in the four-day countdown to launching RESET 2021 tomorrow, and today I will be very honest in sharing why this personal challenge is so important to me and how I am going to add in an extra layer of accountability, transforming my personal challenge, into one that will help to support others. That is the four-day countdown done, phew and now everything is in place for what I know will be an amazing year of personal discovery, challenges and triumphs. Along the way, I hope to make some new friends and hope you will want to join me on this journey and that I can support you to achieve your goals and dreams as well.So, 2021, bring it on!
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