Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

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From grief to trauma to writing, I learnt so much about how we can view the positive in the every day and how we shouldn’t take our lives so seriously as they can be taken from us in the blink of a moment. With top guests including Stephen Fry, Jack Whitehall, Michael Rosen, Susie Dent, Alex Horne, Paul Sinha, Robin Ince, Josh Widdecombe, Natalie Haynes, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Ed Byrne, Jenny Eclair and Milton Jones. He has faced so many struggles during this period and his journey is an inspiration to those suffering from long term illness. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. You don't come out of a coma, what happens is that you go through various stages in which you are 90 percent unconscious, 80 percent unconscious, 50 percent, 30 percent … so you taper into consciousness.

But also the kind of love we must have for each other if we are to survive the terrible divisions and hate we are seeing now.One thing I say to kids is, ‘If you think of a thought as a ping-pong ball in your head – your head’s empty, and there’s a ping-pong ball bouncing around in there like it’s in a bottle, bing-bong, bing-bong – well, can you get the ping-pong ball outside your head so that it’s not making all of that noise?

He takes challenging experiences - death, illness - and discusses different ways people manage, and how he has managed in those different situations. Michael Rosen is one of the UK's national treasures, a prolific children's author, former Children's Laureate, a man who came to wider prominence when he was hospitalised and spent 40 days in an induced coma at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

He adds, “For people who lose somebody, with very long days to get through and very little to do, I think that’s difficult.