09/06/2026
This Carers Week, I’m thinking about the people who rarely call themselves carers.
The partners, parents, adult children, friends and relatives who are quietly holding everything together for someone with a cancer diagnosis.
The ones remembering appointments, chasing results, managing medication, doing the school run, the food shop, having difficult conversations. Staying strong in public, but falling apart in the car park.
Caring for someone with cancer can change your life too. And yet many carers feel they have to keep going because “it’s not about me.”
But it is about you too.
That’s why I created my group coaching programme for unpaid carers of someone with a cancer diagnosis. It gives carers space to stop, breathe, reflect and reconnect with themselves, not as an afterthought, but as people who matter too.
I’m currently recruiting for a PLANETS Charity funded course for unpaid carers connected to the PLANETS community. This course is specifically for their carers, and I’m delighted they recognise the importance of supporting the people behind the person with cancer.
I’d love to see more cancer charities offering this kind of support too.
If your charity supports people with cancer, who is supporting their carers?
The programme can be commissioned by charities, support organisations and community groups who want to offer meaningful, reflective and practical support to unpaid carers.
Across five group coaching sessions, carers explore the reality of caring, mindset, energy, boundaries, identity, and what might need to change so they are not just surviving the role.
Carers deserve more than praise.
They deserve support.
If you’re connected to PLANETS and caring for someone with cancer, please get in touch about the current course.
And if you work for a charity or organisation that wants to better support carers, I’d be very happy to talk.