Your Correspondence #5
6/29/202654 min
In this correspondence special, John reads a selection of your emails and feedback. Recorded at home, he responds to listener reflections on food addiction, the difficult relationship between shame and compulsive behaviour, therapy and 12-step programmes. John also shares five things he is currently grateful for.
John's book references include Healing The Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw, I Thought It Was Just Me and The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown and Embracing Shame by Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin.
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First 90 secondsJohn Robins· Host0:00
Hello everyone, it's John here. Just letting you know that I have written a book. It's called Thirst: 12 Drinks That Changed My Life, and it's out 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 out now, and the audiobook, read by me, is available wherever you get audiobooks from. [upbeat music] Hello everyone, and welcome to How Do You Cope? This is a correspondence episode, where I'm going to read out some of your emails and share your reflections and answer some questions you've put to me. Uh, I should say that I'm recording this from home, so if you hear the sound of a van door slamming, that's just, uh, a plumber helping a neighbor out. And if someone starts mowing the lawn, I apologize in advance. Um, but I just want to say, before we get into your fantastic emails and questions, um, firstly, I have edited out