Whether you’re supporting someone at home or working in a busy care role, it’s easy to feel cut off from the rest of the world. Your friends might be kind and well-meaning, but they don’t always get it.

Whether you’re supporting someone at home or working in a busy care role, it’s easy to feel cut off from the rest of the world. Your friends might be kind and well-meaning, but they don’t always get it.

Whether you work in a care home, hospital, community setting, or support a loved one at home, some days hit harder than others.

When you care for others, professionally or at home, time becomes your most valuable (and most limited) resource.
You’re always thinking of someone else’s needs, schedules, and comfort… and your own wellbeing often slips to the bottom of the list.

Caring people are naturally generous. You give your time, your energy, and your heart to others, often without stopping to think about your own limits.

Let’s be honest, caring people are often brilliant at looking after everyone except themselves.

Caring for others is one of the most meaningful things you can do, but it’s also emotionally and physically demanding.

Working in care is deeply rewarding, but let’s be honest, it’s not easy.

The emotional load, long hours, and ever-changing challenges mean resilience isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential.

For care providers, there’s a limited budget to work with. You do the best you can with the funding available, stretching every pound to support your teams and the people you care for.

If you care for others, whether as a professional or unpaid carer, you already know it’s one of the most meaningful things you can do. But you also know it’s hard.

When we talk about storytelling in care, we don’t mean the dramatic undercover exposés or the negative headlines that roll out every few months when something goes wrong in one setting, somewhere.

Whether you’re supporting someone at home or working in a busy care role, it’s easy to feel cut off from the rest of the world. Your friends might be kind and well-meaning, but they don’t always get it.

So many carers tell us the same thing: “I love what I do, but sometimes it feels like no one else sees it.”

Empathy is what makes care human. However, when you spend your days caring deeply for others, you can start to carry more than you can hold.

Making friends as an adult… harder than it sounds.

The latest State of Care report from the CQC states the vacancy rate in adult social care is around three times higher than the average across other sectors. Why?

Between shifts, paperwork, personal caring responsibilities and long days, it’s easy to feel disconnected from others who truly understand what you do.

For too long, the care conversation has been dominated by stories of crisis, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.