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It Takes a Village: a Cancer Diagnosis and its Implication on the People Around Me
When you receive a diagnosis of cancer, it is not only you that receives it. There is a whole circle of people that are equally affected by the news. This was not something I realised ...
Saying Yes to Receiving Care
I recently became a client of a mental health service. The service is part of a charity that works with people ‘to end homelessness and tackle disadvantage’. Am I homeless, you may ask? Am I ...
Dignity – Nature’s Way
This morning, a beautiful bouquet of flowers on the breakfast table began to fade, flower petals dropped, leaves turned yellow and wilted. Did I love them any less? No. Did I weep at their passing? ...
Is Lack of Self-Care Self-Abuse?
Why is lack of self-care so prevalent and accepted as normal behaviour? In a support group for carers recently, one participant began sharing about their decades-long relationship of constant verbal and occasional physical abuse. During ...
The Quality of our Presence in care
Often, when I go to my client’s house after a day at work at the local school, if I arrive rushed and trying to just get the job done then I can feel this whilst ...
How My Work as a Carer Offered Reflections and Healing in my own life
Having just spent 14 days at my new job as a live-in carer, supporting a lady aged 94, whose earlier life would have been similar to mine, what I saw of the everyday normal was ...
Our Daily Rhythm and the Quality of Our Care
When I started working as a carer, I had no idea where it would lead. I had made a career change from working in education, management, and consultancy. Some would say I took a downward ...
Does Material Wealth Bring Joy? A Carer’s Observation.
In the business of live-in aged care work, we not only respond to the physical and mental ill-health conditions of clients. There is more. Yes, we have a job to do. We are also there ...
Working as a Carer – More than just a job
I have worked as a carer with my client for about 8 years now. We have built a beautiful friendship over this time to the point where really, we feel like family. Our client-carer relationship ...