Latest Carers Podcast Episodes
Part 2- Insight Into Two Care Leavers Education Experience
Education Untapped - September 15, 2020 16:00 - 1 hourHosted by Sasha-Gay Brown Saira Jones and Yusef McCormack- established entrepreneurs and professionals who defined the odds and stereotypes of the care system. In this episode, they share with us their experiences at school particularly around confidentiality, relationships, bullying, creativit...
Introduction to a 4-part series building emotional resilience as a carer.
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - September 02, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week is an introduction to a four-part series covering the four most prominent emotions carers experience throughout their caring journey: guilt, resentment, grief and anger. However, before I started this thought-provoking series, I thought it would be useful to provide some clarity of a ...
The Answer to “The meaning to life, the universe and everything” for carers! Part 2
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - August 26, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to this second episode about finding meaning and purpose as a carer. Last week I explored the meaning of ‘meaning’ and its importance in our wellbeing as carers. I shared some definitions to help to explain the concept of meaning and then discussed some ways you can find sources of meani...
The Answer to “The meaning to life, the universe and everything” for carers! Part 1
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - August 19, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFirst off, the short answer to the question in the title is…42! If you have seen or heard of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, then you probably already knew that answer! In this episode and next week, I will be discussing ‘meaning in life’ in the caregiving context. I will start with an ...
Carer's identity - Is it important to identify as a carer to others, such as employers and friends?
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - August 05, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, I talk about some of the reasons why people who care for friends and loved ones, do and do not refer to themselves as cares/caregivers. I discuss what the advantages can be in identifying yourself as a carer/caregiver and why. I also summaries the benefits for employers in supp...
BONUS: Keeping in touch with a friend or colleague who is a carer
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - July 30, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIf you have a friend, family member or work colleague who you know or think is a carer/caregiver, in this bonus episode, I talk about some of the barriers that they might have with staying in touch with you and discuss some suggestions for different communications styles to support them and deve...
Club sandwich anyone? When you are caring for more than one generation
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - July 15, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThriving 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.
Feeling lonely, even when you are not on your own
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - July 01, 2020 06:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt doesn’t matter who you are caring for a partner, a parent or child, loneliness can affect us all at any time. In this episode, I talk about how we can feel more isolated and lonely, as our lifestyle changes as carers. It can result from having to withdraw from usual activities such as the ro...
Episode Schedule Change: "Walking my own talk"!
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - June 29, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to A Care's Heart podcast. In this very short extra episode, I am letting you know that the schedule of the podcasts is going to change. They were originally every Wednesday, so four a month, possibly five. However, I am going to have to change that down to two episodes, the 1st and 3rd...
"A goal without a plan, is just a wish" - Ideas to help you achieve your dreams
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - June 24, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we're talking about planning, but not planning in terms of your role as a carer but planning for YOU. For a lot of us, we have to plan for things like medication or having an emergency plan, the essential things to actually make our lives work as carers, to run families and to work,...
S3 Ep1 - Penny
Who Cares Wins - June 17, 2020 20:43 - 32 minutesKyro sits down with Penny Wincer, some time carer to both her mother and her son, to talk about her new book - Tender.
COVID & Caring: 5 Practical activities to support you in a crisis
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - June 17, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode goes through the additional challenges we have face and will continue to face as carers/caregivers, during the COVID 19 pandemic. I go through the three phases of coping, starting with the first weeks as we went into lockdown, to where the world is now, emerging from isolation to t...
A Carer's Heart Podcast - More indepth details about episodes
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - June 10, 2020 06:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEpisodes will be published every Wednesday morning at 7 am (UK Time) and will last between 15- 30 mins. At the end of each episode, I will discuss further reading and research, exercises and activities. Some of the topics may be sensitive, such as talking about grief or bereavement. Although th...
Welcome to A Carer's Heart Podcast
Thriving Carer: A Podcast for Unpaid Carers - June 01, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this welcome episode, I explain that I set up my social enterprise, A Carer’s Heart, for all caregivers, regardless of who you are caring for and whether you are at the beginning of your caring journey, actively caring for a loved one or friend or if active caring has ended, and beyond. In...
Bonus Research Episode - Dr Warren Donnellan
Who Cares Wins - March 31, 2020 14:31 - 16 minutesJames dropped in to catch up with Dr Warren Donnellan to learn more about his research into resilience in carers.
S2 Ep5 - Tricia
Who Cares Wins - January 01, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutesThe brand new podcast from Kyro and James at Mobilise. We're sharing the stories, wisdom and experience of people who have been caring for a loved one.
S2 Ep4 - Laura
Who Cares Wins - December 10, 2019 16:15 - 31 minutesOur good friend Laura talks about looking after her Nan while she was growing up.
S2 Ep3 - David
Who Cares Wins - November 26, 2019 16:30 - 28 minutesDavid Grayson, Chair of Carers UK, swings by the studio to share his own story of being cared for and caring.
S2 Ep2 - Gordon
Who Cares Wins - November 19, 2019 16:45 - 31 minutesGordon Southern is an international comedian. In 2016 Gordon wrote a comedy show about his father's Dementia. He took it to the Edinburgh festival and spoke to Kyro about how it went.
S2 Ep 1 - Emma
Who Cares Wins - November 06, 2019 16:00 - 33 minutesEmma, author of the Maud & Mum blog, drops into our fancy new studio to talk to us about her caring journey.
Ep 5 - Kate
Who Cares Wins - July 24, 2019 16:30 - 33 minutesAn old friend of Kyro's comes in to talk about her experience of looking after her mum whilst in her 20s.
Ep 4 - John & Emily
Who Cares Wins - June 12, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutesJohn & Emily welcome us into their home while they disagree about who cares for who in their relationship.
Ep 3 - Allegra
Who Cares Wins - June 11, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutesAllegra and her team at the Camden Carers' Centre works with thousands of carers in the borough. She came in for a giggle, a cuppa and a chat about the things she's learned from carers.
Ep 2 - Tina
Who Cares Wins - June 10, 2019 09:56 - 26 minutesJames & Kyro talk to Tina about her experience caring for her husband, David.
Ep 1 - Dawn gives us a song and tells her story
Who Cares Wins - April 16, 2019 16:03 - 26 minutesKyro and James hear from Dawn, who finds singing a great way to cope with the stresses of a caring role.
*tap* *tap* Is this working?
Who Cares Wins - April 10, 2019 09:41 - 6 minutesKyro Brooks and James Townsend are entrepreneurs with a passion for supporting people who care for somebody they love. This is a short trailer for 'Who Cares Wins' - the podcast that will be sharing stories about the amazing work people do in a caring role.
Caring: a family affair
Caring: a family affair - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:32 - application/epub+zip ★ - 1 ratingCare is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (car...
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