S3 Katy Wix: ‘Finding meaning in all this pain has been really helpful for me’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Elis and John chat to actor, comedian and writer Katy Wix about some of the topics covered in her book Delicacy, including eating disorders, grief and issues around body image. Details of organisations that can provide help and support on some of the issues raised in this episode or the rest of the series are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	BBC Five Live.
0:06.5	How do you cope with Ellison John?
0:10.3	Hello and welcome to How Do You Cop with Ellison John.
0:13.0	This is a series where we speak to different guests
0:15.2	of our challenges they face throughout their lives
0:17.5	and what they've done to overcome them.
0:19.8	We've got an absolutely cracking guest in Katie Wicks.
0:23.6	But before we come on to Katie in the best How Do You Cop
0:27.7	tradition, I'm going to ask John, John, how's your shame?
0:30.6	Oh, good, good, up and down and all around.
0:38.7	Still crazy after all these years, rocking a roll in,
0:43.4	just busting it up, going to go to Ireland to frown
0:49.3	at the ocean for two weeks.
0:51.8	Oh, that's what all the great poets did, isn't it?
0:54.1	It is what all the great poets did, mate.
0:56.6	They went to Ireland to frown at the ocean,
0:59.8	to grimace at the sea, to intimidate the cliffs,
1:05.5	and to caress the beach, and to really get inside the head
1:10.1	of some goals, I'm really going to get in their heads.
1:14.5	I'm going to be doing some wistful sort of wandering.
1:19.0	Combined with some swearing?
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