#33 The Language of Kindness with Christie Watson

<p>Today I want to introduce&nbsp;this pod with a quote from my guests latest book “ The Language of Kindness”</p><br /><p><em>'Come with me on the wards from birth to death, past the special care baby unit and the double doors to the medical ward.&nbsp;&nbsp;Run through the corridors to answer the crash bleep, past the pharmacy and staff kitchen and to the accident and emergency room.&nbsp;</em></p><br /><p><em>We explore the hospital itself as well as nursing and many other aspects.&nbsp;What I thought nursing involved when I started - chemistry, biology, physics, pharmacology and anatomy - and what I now know to be the truth of nursing - the loss of people, psychology , art, ethics and politics.&nbsp;</em></p><br /><p><em>We will meet people on the way, patients, relatives and staff - people you may&nbsp;recognise already - because we are all nursed at some point in our lives.&nbsp;We are all nurses'.</em></p><br /><p>Christie Watson</p><br /><p>I am speaking to the fantastic&nbsp;<strong>Christie Watson</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;- who is a bestselling writer with a special interest in nursing and mental health.&nbsp;Having spent twenty years working as a nurse, she also holds an&nbsp;<strong>honorary Doctor of Letters</strong>&nbsp;for her contribution to nursing and the arts. She is Patron of the Royal College of Nursing&nbsp;Foundation.</p><br /><p>Her non-fiction work, The Language of Kindness, published in 2018 was a number one&nbsp;<strong>Sunday Times Bestseller</strong>. It was a&nbsp;<strong>Book of the Year</strong>&nbsp;in The Evening Standard, New Statesman,&nbsp;The Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Is has been translated into 23 languages,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>spent five months in the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller lists</strong>.</p><br /><p>We’re taking a slight turn from our usual chat about nutrition and lifestyle to talk about an&nbsp;interesting and important topic that impacts our wellbeing to the very core; Kindness.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You’ll find the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDZaFKYtl18&amp;t=91s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>recipe video that I cooked with Christie and our super interesting conversation - on my youtube channel</strong></a>&nbsp;go check it out!</p><br /><p>All social media links and other information relating to this episode can be found over on <a href="https://thedoctorskitchen.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Doctor's Kitchen website.</a></p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>