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Once a week, Nurse Practitioner Bek Woodbine will unpack issues that impact all nurses from self care to growing professionally as a nurse. With over 35 years of nursing experience and with her raw and honest style, Bek aims to offer sage advice to all nurses with help from amazing guests each week. Ordinary people performing the extra ordinary in the field of health, leadership and self care.

A series of conversations between journalist Yvonne Gavan and a range of guests about the pivotal moments of tenderness that help shape the course of our lives. Because these experiences tell us about what it means to be human. And invite us into a new way of seeing the world and each other.The show is being produced by American journalist, Aisha Chowdhry. We would love to hear from you. Email us at thetendernessrevolution@gmail.com or follow us @thetendernessrevolution on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our culture has over-used (and mis-applied) the word "love" so much that it has lost a lot of its power and meaning. "Tenderness", though, with the breadth of its nuanced connotations—from fiercely protective parental love, the intimacy of a lover's touch, the presence of a friend in a time of crisis, an altruistic moment between strangers—offers us a fresh lens through which to approach caring for ourselves, each other, and the planet. When we talk about tenderness, we're not talking about watering down the truth or disregarding justice. We're not talking about being "nice", turning a ...