Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. It's a podcast about making work better.

Well, what a strange time we're living through.

Clearly discussions about work in a normal capacity are a long way from anything that seems relevant at the moment.

A whole load of us are working from home and trying to sort of navigate the way that that's impacting.

Certainly I don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said.

So to some extent this episode's a distraction, just something really interesting to listen to from a profession

that's always in our highest regard in times like this but too easily forgotten in the good times.

Christy Watson is a trained nurse. forgotten in the good times.

Christie Watson is a trained nurse who spent 20 years working in hospitals across London. She's an incredible testament to never allowing your own creative spark to die.

She explains to me how she wrote her first

book an award-winning novel, whilst studying a course in creative writing and working as a nurse

and also being a single mother and I love it because I love the whole

story behind it because the novel won the immensely prestigious Costa book

award she didn't even know she'd been nominated for it and brilliantly

when the publisher phone to tell her she had to Google the prize to work out what

it actually was so incredible. Maybe at the moment you're wondering how to use some of your

untapped energy. Let Christy be your inspiration. Her book that we're talking about

here is The Language of Kind kindness and nurse's story.

It's a remarkable tale of a job right in the heart

of solving the challenges of anxious families

and really trying to retain a professional distance while so deeply

enmeshed in the most traumatic moments of people's lives.

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