Carers' Hearts CIC
Supporting the emotional wellbeing of unpaid carers throughout their caring journeyOur Support for You
Carers’ Hearts CIC is for every unpaid carer, wherever you are in the global caregiving family!.
Whether you think you may be taking on a caring role in the future; you have started your caring journey and are already caring for one or more loved ones or friends; you are an employer who wants to support their employees or whether your active caring has ended and beyond.
Unpaid carers come in all shapes and sizes! It doesn’t matter who you are caring for or for how long or how many loved ones you are caring for. Whether the role is full-time or part-time; whether you live with the cared-for-person or care remotely. Whether you even think of yourself as a carer or not, you are welcome.
Being an unpaid carer can make additional demands on you non-carers might not think about. When you take or took on a caring role, you may still wish or need to continue to work or run your business. Continuing in a job or role when you start caring is a significant part of your identity and who you are, as well as providing psychological and financial benefits. However, you may be reluctant to share this new responsibility with your colleagues or employers and that can be isolating and distressing.
As active or former carers ourselves we understand that you can experience often-conflicting emotions and feelings, sometimes overwhelming you like multiple waves crashing over you, without giving you time to take a breath in between.
We will support you with building emotional resilience and to understand and to work on your psychological wellbeing.
Carers’ Hearts CIC is here for you and those who support you; both now and the future, whether at home, in the workplace or if you just want to feel like you every now and again.
Services and Products
We understand that everyone has different learning styles and that, as a carer, the opportunities to develop your knowledge or learn new skills may be limited.
All videos will have captions and transcripts can be provided, if required and there will be a variety of downloadable worksheets, as well as notes, further reading resources and ebooks.
So, with that in mind, we will be creating:
- blog posts
- podcast episodes
- regular free webinars
- a variety of short, free workshops
- paid community with courses and group coaching sessions, if you would like more in-depth training, plus direct support through the community forum.
- provide practical advice and guidance to entrepreneurs and business owners to support their carer employees
About Lynne
Co-founder & Coaching Psychologist
After a long and rewarding career in two UK police services, Lynne retrained as a professional coach, completed an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology and took the challenging decision to leave her career to become a full-time caregiver for an elderly relative and co-founded Carers’ Hearts CIC with Lorna.
As an active caregiver, she now uses her research experience, adult education training and coaching knowledge and experience to support other carers throughout their caring journey, a career passion that enables her to continue to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
About Lorna
Co-founder & Coaching Psychologist
Building on decades of experience coaching, mentoring and assessing young adults, students and executives, Lorna complemented her degree in Behavioural Sciences by completing an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. Lorna has experience of the caring role in her family and using her knowledge is actively supporting other carers.
As an experienced coach and Positive Psychology Practitioner, Lorna is passionate about positive education and lifelong learning. She is a committee member for the North West branch of the British Psychological Society and co-founder of Carers’ Hearts CIC with Lynne.
About Esmee
Strategic Adviser
Esmee has a strong track record of developing, delivering and evaluating impactful campaigns which bring about long term and sustainable change. She is also a qualified coach (ACC), working with individuals and organisations making this world better, more just and more beautiful. She’s delighted to be bringing all her skills to support Carers’ Heart to have real impact.
Esmee has a brother with a learning disability and from a young age has, with her family, providing emotional support, and she knows that one day she will be her brother’s main family carer.
BONUS: The Selfish Pig’s Guide to Caring by Hugh Marriott – Book Review
This empathically and cleverly written book, will not only make you laugh, but will break the ice on topics that are difficult but need to talked about to remove the feeling of isolation and inadequacy carers can often feel.
Building emotional resilience as a carer series – Part 1 – Guilt
In this first part of a four-part series on building emotional resilience, I am talking about probably the most common emotion, ‘carers guilt’, how it can show up in our lives and provide exercises and activities to help reduce its power.
Introduction to the 4-part building emotional resilience as a carer series
In this post I discuss a forthcoming four-part series covering the four most prominent emotions carers experience: guilt, resentment, grief and anger and explore how Emotional Resilience can help manage difficult emotions.
“The meaning to life, the universe and everything” for carers! Part 2
In this second post of a two-part series, I introduce the ‘darker side’ of meaning; searching for meaning and creating meaning as a carer/caregiver and include some exercises and activities for you to complete.
“The meaning to life, the universe and everything” for carers! Part 1
In this first post of a two-part series, I will start with an introduction ‘meaning’ and its relationship to ‘purpose’. I will then explore some ‘sources’ of meaning as carers with examples of what those might look and feel like.
Carer’s identity – How important is it for carers to identify with the term ‘carer’?
In this post I am talking about the term or title of carer or caregiver. I ask the question how important is it to have a ‘carers’ identity or title in how people see us and how we view our own self-identity?
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