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Informationen zum Autor Penny grew up in Melbourne, Australia. After finishing a degree in film and creative writing at the University of Melbourne she got on a plane to London and twenty years later she is still here. After many years working as an Interiors and Lifestyle photographer, Penny began writing again. She has contributed to many popular parenting blogs, online newspapers, Red magazine and had an essay published in a travel anthology about traveling with kids. She lives in south London with her two children. Klappentext Penny Wincer has twice been a carer: first to her mother and now as a single mother to her austistic son. Tender weaves personal experience with research into resilience, perfectionism and self compassion to offer transformative tools and insights for navigating a situation many of us are either facing or will face in the future. The number of 'invisible' carers among us is rising all the time. These are the unpaid and underepresented who may find themselves caring for another, whether it's a parent, child or partner. And often while working, studying and looking after others too. What it means to care shows up in different guises and encounters varying challenges and expectations. But caring for a loved one calls for a crucial understanding: the need to look after oneself and to cultivate qualities that seek not to fix but rather to reframe what it means to live a good life. Whatever obstacles we face as we care, Tender provides an honest and hopeful perspective that leads the way to acceptance, compassion and, ultimately, joy. Vorwort A personal and essential guide for the many carers among us. Zusammenfassung 'Uplifting and honest, [ Tender is] about resilience and learning to look after oneself so as to be better able to care for others.' KATE MOSSE 'A beautiful and important book that is both deeply engaging and usefully practical. I loved it.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'An insightful and well-timed book ... forces us to confront the stereotypes - and prejudices - we hold.' SUNDAY TIMES 'profoundly important...full of wisdom and bright insights on what it really means to love someone, by a fearless and generous writer. ' CLOVER STROUD 'A beautiful and timely reminder that each and every one of us has the ability to care, the capacity for empathy, and the potential to grow.' ANDY PUDDICOMBE, FOUNDER OF HEADSPACE 'A wonderful book: compassionate, honest, carefully-reasoned and genuinely helpful... This will benefit many people.' KATHERINE MAY, author of WINTERING 'An invaluable tool for any invisible carers or anyone who wants to learn how to better support their loved ones... we ALL have many, many things to learn from Penny's beautiful, wise, charming, thoughtful words' - SCARLETT CURTIS, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Moving and beautifully written, nuanced and wise, alert to every paradox at the heart of love. A hugely important book not only for current or future carers, but anyone learning to accept that life tends to resist our control.' - OLIVIA SUDJIC, author of EXPOSURE 'Tender captures the powerful capacity of people to care for others, and all the heartbreaking and heartwarming complexity that this involves. Penny brings the crucial, yet often overlooked, role of caring into our collective consciousness and, in doing so, demonstrates what it means to be human.' -DR EMMA HEPBURN, author of A TOOLKIT FOR MODERN LIFE 'Penny Wincer's TENDER manages to combine both unromanticised honesty about the realities of care with a genuine uplifting hopefulness... is a must-read.'- RUTH WHIPPMAN, author of THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS We are all likely - at some point in our lives - to face the prospect of caring for another, whether it's a parent, ch...
