Gary Lightbody: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode, Snow Patrol lead singer Gary Lightbody shares the 5 things he is currently grateful for.
Gratitude plays a big part in Gary’s life, and he describes a transcendental experience he had whilst swimming in Belfast Lough.
Head to the main episode to hear about Gary’s experiences of grief after the death of his father, how he felt guilt and shame in the wake of his passing, and the importance of finding stillness and calm in his everyday life.
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| 0:49.0 | One hundred. |
| 0:49.4 | Music Welcome to the Gratitude List with my guest this week, Gary Lightbody. |
| 1:05.7 | Gary, thank you for sticking around to fulfill a little bit of bonus content. |
| 1:12.1 | No problem, John. |
| 1:13.4 | But often it can be really enlightening as to, you know, the practical things or the sort of |
| 1:19.3 | day-to-day stuff that helps people get through. |
| 1:21.8 | And I've found gratitude always to be a useful island to come to when when things are difficult or where I'm |
| 1:30.4 | struggling to make sense of the world and I wondered what part gratitude plays in your in your life |
| 1:36.0 | massive I'm very very grateful and I try and make all the people in my life very aware of that |
| 1:43.1 | as much as possible. You know, |
| 1:46.0 | they're definitely not in the dark about how I feel about them. I think it's important. |
| 1:53.3 | I guess it's one thing to feel it, but it is actually important to communicate it. I think that's |
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