Alison Spittle ‘The compulsion to eat was stronger than wanting to live’
4/27/20261 hr 13 min
What does it mean when your coping mechanism stops working for you?
John speaks to comedian, podcaster, writer and actor Alison Spittle about using food as protection, and how it shaped her sense of self.
After a serious health scare forced a change, Alison found herself confronting feelings she had numbed with food. She reflects on being treated differently since her weight change, how it feels to address emotions she had previously buried, and the complexity of labels.
On Thursday in our bonus episode The Gratitude List, Alison shares the 5 things that she is currently grateful for.
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First 90 secondsJohn Robins· Host0:00
Hello, everyone. It's John here, just letting you know that I've written a book. It's called Thirst: 12 Drinks That Changed My Life, and it's available to pre-order now. In many episodes of How Do You Cope?, you'll have heard me talk about my relationship with alcohol, and in writing Thirst, I wanted to explore what alcohol means. Why did it mean more to me than other people? Why did it mean some things felt better, and why did it mean so many things went wrong? I also talk about lots of other things you'll have heard me and my guests discuss on How Do You Cope?: meditation, physical pain, gratitude, trauma, and therapy. There's even a chapter about my bum and its relationship with Buddhism. So if that piques your interest, Thirst is available to pre-order now, and the audiobook, read by me, is available to save or pre-order wherever you get audiobooks from.
Speaker 10:43
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