This 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 term I use in most posts, Emotional Resilience. So, I will explain why this is an important and useful skill to understand, provide some exercises for you to start practising and then build on this discussion, as I explore guilt, resentment, grief and anger over the following four blog posts. 

I will start by unpicking some of the different definitions for ‘resilience’, then discuss how ‘Emotional Resilience’ fits into helping us to manage difficult emotions, make a positive contribution to our mental wellbeing and provide us with tools to help us to support ourselves in the weeks, months and years of caring we provide for our loved ones.