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Can You Truly Take Good Care of Another, if You don’t First Care for Yourself?
Over the past 18 years, I have observed colleagues that were exhausted, struggled with being overweight, and were ill with all kinds of ailments. They were often careless and made mistakes at work. Central Bureau ...
Opening Up to Receiving Help
I was at the supermarket, enjoying the chance to look around and feel into what foods I wanted to buy and appreciating what I had in my trolley. At the checkout, I was asked to ...
Nothing Is As It Seems
During one of my agency nursing periods, I was sent to a rest home in a town I knew well. During the medication round in which I was giving medication to a lot of people ...
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 ...