Esther Ghey: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode, campaigner Esther Ghey shares what she is grateful for. John and Esther reflect on silent retreats, time with friends, morning walks and the tulips in Postman’s Park, as well as the work of the Brianna Ghey Legacy project team.
Head to the main episode to hear Esther speak about how her own past has shaped her capacity for compassion, and how mindfulness became a lifeline in the aftermath of her daughter’s death.
Esther’s book Under a Pink Sky is available now.
You can find out more about Esther’s campaigning work via Phone Free Education and Brianna Ghey Legacy Project
If you need support, you can find advice and someone to talk to by visiting Mind or Samaritans.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's John here. Just letting you know that I have written a book. It's called Thirst, |
| 0:05.0 | 12 drinks that changed my life, and it's out now. In many episodes of How Do You Cope, |
| 0:09.7 | you'll have heard me talk about my relationship with alcohol, and in writing Thirst, I wanted to |
| 0:13.9 | explore what alcohol means. Why did it mean more to me than other people? Why did it mean some |
| 0:19.3 | things felt better, and why did it mean so many |
| 0:21.5 | things went wrong? I also talk about lots of other things you'll have heard me and my guests |
| 0:26.1 | discuss on how do you cope. Meditation, physical pain, gratitude, trauma and therapy. There's even |
| 0:32.0 | a chapter about my bum and its relationship with Buddhism. So if that piques your interest, |
| 0:36.6 | thirst is out now, |
| 0:37.9 | and the audiobook, read by me, is available wherever you get audiobooks from. |
| 0:53.8 | Welcome to The Gratute List, and I'm delighted to say that Esther Jai is still with me |
| 0:59.6 | and before we get into your Gratitude List I mean you gave a fantastic very moving |
| 1:06.3 | description of how gratitude helped you in the you know the worst moment in your life. I want to know about your |
| 1:14.0 | silent retreat because I went on one about two years ago and I still think about it all the time. |
| 1:20.3 | So you've been on one recently. What was your experience? Mine was a solo silent retreat. |
| 1:26.1 | So I decided to... |
| 1:27.7 | That's the dream. |
| 1:29.0 | Not sat next to 80 people sniffing and doing up their coats. |
| 1:33.5 | No, no. |
| 1:35.1 | I've never been on an actual silent retreat. |
| 1:38.9 | But I decided to, I booked a lodge in the late district, which had a hot tub. |
| 1:44.5 | And I had a complete digital detox. |
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