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The Carers' Meditation Podcast

The Carers' Meditation Podcast

By: Alison Watson-Shields
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This is your space to unwind. The Carers’ Meditation Podcast offers short guided meditations designed for those caring for someone living with dementia. Take a few quiet moments for yourself — to rest, reconnect, and restore your energy.

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Episodes
  • I Create Space for Rest and Renewal Meditation | For Dementia Carers
    Jun 8 2026

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    "I Create Space for Rest and Renewal" is a gentle affirmation meditation for unpaid carers — and the final episode of Season 1 of the Carers Meditation Podcast.

    Using breath awareness, guided visualisation, and quiet affirmation, this meditation offers something every carer deserves and rarely receives — genuine, unhurried permission to rest.

    This episode marks the end of a year that began during Carers Week 2025 and closes during Carers Week 2026. In that time, hundreds of carers have pressed play, paused, breathed, and taken a few moments entirely for themselves. This final episode of Season 1 is for every one of them.

    After this episode, the Carers Meditation Podcast is taking a short summer break — resting and renewing, just as we ask you to do. We will return in August with Season 2, shaped by everything we have learned and listened to along the way.

    The full library of Season 1 episodes remains available throughout the break, free and accessible, whenever you need them.

    Press play, find somewhere quiet, and allow yourself to rest. You have earned it.

    Suitable for anyone supporting someone living with dementia, whether at home or in a professional care role.

    If you've found this podcast helpful and would like to support the Carers Meditation Podcast, you can make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most — especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and come back in August ready to offer even more.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm








    If you’ve found this meditation helpful and would like to support the Carers’ Meditation Podcast, you can now make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most—especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and continue offering calm, connection, and care to those who give so much of themselves.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm

    Support the show

    Take this time to breathe. To pause. To simply be.

    You give so much to the person you support. You deserve care too.

    If this meditation helped, please subscribe and share it with other carers who might need a moment of calm. New episodes are added regularly — all free, all created for unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Further support, resources, and training for carers: www.youngatheartulo.org.uk

    Stay connected: Facebook | Twitter (X) | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | LinkedIn

    The Carers' Meditation Podcast is produced by Young at Heart ULO CIC, Stockton-on-Tees. Supporting unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Attribution for Sound Effects This episode includes the following sound effects to enhance the meditation space:

    • Three Bells with Night Sounds by firstsounder — https://freesound.org/s/727984/ — License: Creative Commons 0
    • Meditation Hall at Night.wav by chris5s — https://freesound.org/s/478005/ — License: Creative Commons 0
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    10 mins
  • Shut Off the Noise Meditation | For Dementia Carers
    Jun 1 2026

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    Shut Off the Noise is a calming guided meditation for unpaid carers and anyone whose mind simply won't stop — designed to gently quiet mental chatter and create a little space in an overcrowded head.

    Using slow breathing, visualisation, and mindfulness, this practice helps you step back from the noise rather than fight it. Not forcing silence, but softening everything just enough to breathe.

    For carers supporting someone living with dementia, the mental load rarely switches off. The lists, the worries, the replaying of conversations, the planning for what comes next. This meditation doesn't ask you to solve any of it. It simply offers a moment where you don't have to.

    When your brain feels full and you need somewhere quiet to land, this one is for you.

    Press play, take a breath, and allow the noise to soften.

    Suitable for anyone supporting someone living with dementia, whether at home or in a professional care role.

    If you've found this meditation helpful and would like to support the Carers' Meditation Podcast, you can now make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most — especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and continue offering calm, connection, and care to those who give so much of themselves.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm

    If you’ve found this meditation helpful and would like to support the Carers’ Meditation Podcast, you can now make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most—especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and continue offering calm, connection, and care to those who give so much of themselves.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm

    Support the show

    Take this time to breathe. To pause. To simply be.

    You give so much to the person you support. You deserve care too.

    If this meditation helped, please subscribe and share it with other carers who might need a moment of calm. New episodes are added regularly — all free, all created for unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Further support, resources, and training for carers: www.youngatheartulo.org.uk

    Stay connected: Facebook | Twitter (X) | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | LinkedIn

    The Carers' Meditation Podcast is produced by Young at Heart ULO CIC, Stockton-on-Tees. Supporting unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Attribution for Sound Effects This episode includes the following sound effects to enhance the meditation space:

    • Three Bells with Night Sounds by firstsounder — https://freesound.org/s/727984/ — License: Creative Commons 0
    • Meditation Hall at Night.wav by chris5s — https://freesound.org/s/478005/ — License: Creative Commons 0
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    7 mins
  • Calm Before the Storm Meditation | For Dementia Carers
    May 25 2026

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    The Calm Before the Storm is a short guided meditation for unpaid carers and anyone facing a demanding moment — designed to help you steady your mind and settle your nervous system before whatever comes next.

    Using gentle breathing, grounding, and relaxation, this practice creates a quiet pause between where you are now and what you're about to face. Not to make it disappear, but to help you meet it from a calmer, more centred place.

    For carers supporting someone living with dementia, difficult moments rarely announce themselves. This meditation is for the times when you can feel one coming — and you need just a few minutes to find your footing before you step forward.

    Short enough to fit into the spaces between. Powerful enough to make a difference.

    Press play, take a breath, and find your calm before whatever comes next.

    Suitable for anyone supporting someone living with dementia, whether at home or in a professional care role.

    If you've found this meditation helpful and would like to support the Carers' Meditation Podcast, you can now make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most — especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and continue offering calm, connection, and care to those who give so much of themselves.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm

    If you’ve found this meditation helpful and would like to support the Carers’ Meditation Podcast, you can now make a small donation through our GoodHub page. Your support helps us keep this space free and accessible for those who need it most—especially unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Every contribution helps us grow this project and continue offering calm, connection, and care to those who give so much of themselves.

    Visit https://www.goodhub.com/go/giftofcalm

    Support the show

    Take this time to breathe. To pause. To simply be.

    You give so much to the person you support. You deserve care too.

    If this meditation helped, please subscribe and share it with other carers who might need a moment of calm. New episodes are added regularly — all free, all created for unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Further support, resources, and training for carers: www.youngatheartulo.org.uk

    Stay connected: Facebook | Twitter (X) | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | LinkedIn

    The Carers' Meditation Podcast is produced by Young at Heart ULO CIC, Stockton-on-Tees. Supporting unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

    Attribution for Sound Effects This episode includes the following sound effects to enhance the meditation space:

    • Three Bells with Night Sounds by firstsounder — https://freesound.org/s/727984/ — License: Creative Commons 0
    • Meditation Hall at Night.wav by chris5s — https://freesound.org/s/478005/ — License: Creative Commons 0
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    7 mins
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