Alison Spittle: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode, comedian, podcaster, writer and actor Alison Spittle shares the things she’s grateful for. Podcasting, the TV show Pointless, and late-90s pop bands such as the Spice Girls and S Club 7 all feature, along with Mounjaro and the freedom that comes from not constantly thinking about food.
Head to the main episode to hear Alison speak about using food as protection, how it shaped her sense of self, and her journey through weight change.
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:24.5 | and my guests discuss on how do you cope. Meditation, physical pain, gratitude, trauma and therapy. |
| 0:30.8 | There's even a chapter about my bum and its relationship with Buddhism. So if that piques your |
| 0:35.1 | interest, thirst is available to pre-order now. And the |
| 0:38.3 | audiobook, read by me, is available to save or pre-order wherever you get audiobooks from. |
| 0:53.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to The Gratitude List, I'm still joined by Alison Spittle after our epic chat. |
| 1:00.7 | So we're going to talk about gratitude and we ended, well you ended our discussion. |
| 1:08.6 | Crying. |
| 1:09.2 | Crying, but also talking about how you really like the person you were. |
| 1:18.6 | You still are that person. |
| 1:19.6 | Yes. |
| 1:20.0 | But, you know, you're fond of you when you weighed more, which is a form of like gratitude. It's a very lived sense of gratitude |
| 1:30.9 | in that you're not like, I'm so glad I've lost weight now because I feel better about myself. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah. It's like I've always been myself. Yeah. It's weird how like I didn't realize that |
| 1:43.4 | I didn't hate myself until I started losing weight. |
| 1:47.2 | Because I presumed I must have because I should. |
| 1:51.3 | But I didn't think about it. |
| 1:53.4 | So like there's this weird thing of like, yeah, it's this. |
| 1:57.2 | Because I didn't feel like when I got smaller, wasn't like wow thank God but I was like oh great |
| 2:03.0 | because I am paying money for these injections and I don't want to get sick again but like even |
| 2:08.7 | though that will not caveat will not prevent butter whatever but yeah I'm thankful yeah like I'm writing |
| 2:17.0 | stuff at the moment about my life and I'm like, I've been through like quite a lot of shit, but I do like my life, you know? I'm happy generally all the time. I don't know why I am. I just, I just enjoy what I enjoy and I try and do as much of what I enjoy as possible, even though |
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