Bryony Gordon: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode journalist, author and broadcaster Bryony Gordon shares the things she’s grateful for. Books, free coffees and Arsenal football club feature, along with discussions of the vital importance of rightsizing.
Head to the main episode to hear about Bryony’s difficult journey from alcohol and drug addiction to sobriety, her coping mechanisms for quieting the negative voice in her head, and the role that moving and exercise now play in her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the gratitude list here on how do you cope. I'm delighted to say that I'm still |
| 0:20.7 | joined by |
| 0:21.3 | Brian E Gordon. And we're going to talk about gratitude and things you're grateful for. Is gratitude |
| 0:26.5 | a big part of your life? Oh, John. Is it ever? I do, I do a gratitude list every day. |
| 0:33.0 | Do you? Yeah, at the end of each day, even when I don't want to, especially when I don't want to. I think they're really good at shifting your perspective over time. Yes, absolutely. I've been doing for about four years. Every day for four years. Yeah. Amazing. And how many items do you list on your graduate list? As many as possible. Yeah, some people are like only three, five, ten. I'm like, just go for it. |
| 0:54.8 | Because also someone said to me, when I first started doing them, it's very much a kind of 12-step |
| 1:02.8 | program habit. And someone, my sort of mentor, my sponsor said to me, do a gratitude list. |
| 1:10.6 | And I was like, I'm grateful for. |
| 1:12.6 | And they said, well, every day on your gratitude list, you can have that you get to flush your toilet with drinking water. |
| 1:19.2 | And that kind of put me in my place. |
| 1:20.8 | There's loads of shit that you can pour on your gratitude list on daily basis. |
| 1:25.6 | Absolutely, there is. |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.6 | And it's interesting that world of sort of 12-step adjacent stuff. |
| 1:33.3 | Like I don't know when gratitude lists crept in, but they're a big part of recovery for a lot of people from a lot of different addictions is I think ending or addressing what was for me a big |
| 1:47.4 | problem which was like self-pity yeah and also that feeling that no one else no one else has ever |
| 1:53.1 | felt this bad you know yeah there's a great there's a great recording of um someone doing a talk and |
| 2:00.1 | they say that one of the central features of the addict is feeling that my case is different. |
| 2:08.6 | Special and different. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah, and you sit in a room of 100 people, and you're either thinking, I got this reading your book actually, glorious rock bottom, because it's an |
| 2:21.1 | example of how alcohol especially can hide itself as a disease. They say it's the only |
| 2:28.2 | disease that tells you you don't have it. And I flipped reading your book from being like, |
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