The dictionary definition of ‘respite’ is “a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant”. New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Respite #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2026/02/07/r...

*New blog post* Words that make me go hmmm: Carer rewritingsocialcare.blog/2026/01/24/c... #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare #UsNotThemAndUs

New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Person-centred rewritingsocialcare.blog/2026/01/17/p... #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs

Book launch next week ⬇️⬇️ Book tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...?

Come and join me and Beverley Ward chatting about #RewritingSocialCare in London on Thursday 23 October #BookLaunch www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book launch! #RewritingSocialCare Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

It's past time to change the narrative about later life... #socialwork #socialcare #IDOP2025

It’s UN International Day of Older Persons so I’ve teamed up with Gerry Nosowska to share some thoughts about the language of ageing. *New*: ‘The elderly’ and ‘the wellderly’: why the language of ageing makes us go hmmm… rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/10/01/t... #RewritingSocialCare

*New blog post:* Letter to Bryony S #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/09/21/l...

Publication day!! 🌸 Info about the book and book launches at rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/07/26/b... #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs

New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Professional #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/professional/

Tickets are now available for the Sheffield and London launches of my book, Rewriting Social Care: Challenging and Changing Language and Practice for a Better, Brighter Future 🌸 Find out more and book tickets here: rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/07/26/b... Hope to see you there! #RewritingSocialCare

One month until publication! 🌸 #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs #PreOrder

We are all ‘people with lived experience’. But this phrase is fast becoming yet another a label to mean ‘them’. *New blog post* - People with lived experience #UsNotThemAndUs #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/08/02/p...

Save the date(s)! #BookLauch #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/07/26/b...

A not to be missed conversation with @bryonyshannon.bsky.social on the power of language in social care. @nicksinclair.bsky.social and @clentonf.bsky.social host a fascinating and fun conversation on our podcast series. Thanks for taking part Bryony! open.spotify.com/episode/4xqV...

Service users. Customers. Clients. Cases. People we Support (PwS). People who draw on social care. Why is it so hard for us just to talk about people? We? Us? *New blog post* - What do we call them? #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare #UsNotThemAndUs rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/07/06/t...

‘Signposting’ is about process and efficiency, not people and efficacy. If we really want to ‘transform’ social care, we need to focus connection, not redirection. *New blog post* Words that make me go hmmm: signposting #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/06/07/s...

Rewriting Social Care THE BOOK now officially has a cover, and isn’t it fabulous!? It’s due to be published in September and is available to pre-order now.. more info including reviews at www.hachette.co.uk/titles/bryon... 🌼🩷

Instead of all the conversations about ‘demand’, it’s time to demand a different conversation. New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Demand #RewritingSocialCare #UsNotThemAndUs #LanguageMatters rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/05/17/d...

Pathways belong in a world which says ‘this is what we do to people like you’. Where the labels we apply determine the course of our ‘interventions’, and the decisions we make are about you without you… Words that make me go hmmm: pathway #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/pathway

While we may talk too much about beds in relation to social care, I don’t think we talk anything like enough about dreams. New blog: Dreams #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/04/05/d...

While we may talk too much about beds in relation to social care, I don’t think we talk anything like enough about dreams. New blog: Dreams #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/04/05/d...

Such a powerful quote from the wonderful Mark Neary yesterday, about the fragility of your life when you or the people you love have social care needs. He said “we are always one new worker, one new decision from having our lives turned upside down”.

Happy March! 🌸🌱 Not long to go til Social Work Week. During the week I’m running two half-day workshops exploring why language matters in social work and social care. More info and bookings here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gloriously...

Happy March! 🌸🌱 Not long to go til Social Work Week. During the week I’m running two half-day workshops exploring why language matters in social work and social care. More info and bookings here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gloriously...

Have you set any measurable outcomes for your weekend? Planned any meaningful activities? Let’s stop using language that gets in the way of people living #GloriouslyOrdinaryLives #LanguageMatters #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7T_...

Heading home after a fab weekend in Birmingham with @tricianicoll.bsky.social, planning more of our #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage programme. We still have some places left on the next round of the programme starting in May. Find out more at www.gloriouslyordinarylanguage.co.uk

I’ve just seen that today is ‘random acts of kindness day’, which has prompted me to reshare this post from four years ago about the little things that aren’t really little at all… #LanguageMatters #KindnessMatters rewritingsocialcare.blog/2021/02/17/t...

BEDS rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/02/15/b... I think this might be my favourite @bryonyshannon.bsky.social language blog so far. Best line imho 'We focus our attention on whether people require assistance to get in and out of bed and forget to consider whether people have a reason to get up.'

Another great blog from @bryonyshannon.bsky.social - I never thought of the word "beds" in these terms, but she's right how the language of beds and social care have become intertwined, I even used the term bed bound to describe my mum, oh, & read the end story about Clive at the end! #socialcare

New blog: Beds rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/02/15/b... #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare

From the #RewritingSocialCare archive🩷 Love rewritingsocialcare.blog/love Joining the dots… letting love (back) in to social care rewritingsocialcare.blog/joining-the-... And equally for healthcare 💟 rewritingsocialcare.blog/equally-for-... Love shows up rewritingsocialcare.blog/love-shows-up

Our new #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage website is live 🎉 It includes a video of @tricianicoll.bsky.social & me introducing ourselves & our language programme,& new course dates for Spring 2025. Exciting! And huge thanks to Rosina Sharrock for making it look gorgeous www.gloriouslyordinarylanguage.co.uk

Fantastic opportunity to make a difference @philholmes.bsky.social @bryonyshannon.bsky.social 👇

This is my old post in Donny ⬇️ -here’s a bit about why its ace. www.linkedin.com/posts/bryony...? If you want to put your principles into practice, and work with creativity & autonomy alongside brilliant people with lived experience of social care who will teach you so much - make sure you apply! 👩🏼‍💻🤩

Would you use this language around your kitchen table? Love this brilliant graphic by the fabulous @penmendonca.bsky.social, illustrating the 'five categories of hmmm words' @tricianicoll.bsky.social and I will be discussing in our #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage programme. What words would you add?

“Really good & enjoyed it a lot. Feel real motivated to get some positive changes made” “Lots to reflect on-thank you for a fab session” “Put some fire in my belly post Xmas” Just some of the fab feedback from session one of our #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage programme today @tricianicoll.bsky.social

Me & @tricianicoll.bsky.social are really looking forward to our first #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage session for councils on Friday, with Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, North Yorks & Hull Councils. In session 1 we’ll focus on ‘purpose’ & how we communicate about what adult social care is all about.

“And we rush to ‘do something’ – to fix and to solve – overlooking the importance of being present. Being there. Being kind.” Thank you @bryonyshannon.bsky.social great blog as always ❤️

Another excellent blog post. No word irritates me more than “doing”.

This puts how I feel into beautiful words. Being human, curious and simply "with" someone is unfortunately not valued by services pushing for results, progress and a near constant state of activity. We need to slow down and walk alongside the people we are working with 💚

"There’s no KPI for being with. No measure for being alongside. No time for being curious. No space for being human." Essential new year reading from @bryonyshannon.bsky.social rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/01/04/d...

‘Doing personal care.’ ‘Doing an assessment.’ ‘Doing co-production.’ A new blog post for a new year, reflecting on ‘doing’ and ‘being’ – and getting the balance right. #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters rewritingsocialcare.blog/doing-and-be...

🔴My 'Expat' Is Your 'Migrant': How Language Is Used to Poison the Migration Debate The words used to describe human beings who choose to move to the UK reveals where power really lies in our politics and media, says @bearlypolitics.co.uk www.bylinesupplement.com/p/my-expat-i...

Pre orders for ‘The Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science Guide to Rights Based Practice’ here. With all author profits to Stay Up Late at @gigbuddies.bsky.social www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Vari...

Have updated starter packs today, will thread here in case of interest. Shout if you'd like added to any of them and please share so I can find others Currently I've one on #learningdisability one on #OpenJustice and one of people writing/reporting about #health / #socialcare go.bsky.app/J6k8Rsr

Did this social work starter pack less than a week ago and it's already tripled in size. Lots of lovely people doing interesting things in the social work world. Shout me if you'd like an add!

This all sounds wearingly familiar so here's a shortish thread (1/9) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The NHS saves lives but it's #SocialCare that gives many of us a life worth living. Framing care as a problem often misses the possibilities that could be unlocked. Good care is about autonomy, freedom & love & it's at the centre of my life & our TV pilot #Biscuitland www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsW...