We’re not even halfway through the year and we need to debrief. It’s been tough.
But back to help is The Well. It’s like a therapy session, in podcast format.
The hosts of the show Rebecca Sparrow and Robin Bailey, plus their producer Ruth De Glas, share the times this year that have punched them in the gut, and how they bounced back.
Their coping strategies. Their advice. And the book you need to read if your 2017 isn’t exactly going swimmingly either.
Rebecca Sparrow – author and columnist
“It’s May and I feel like this year is kicking my arse. I feel like this year is not going how I expected.”
“So this is my 2017: dengue fever. Then I’ve had one of our extended family members has been very, very ill, in and out of hospital. Then my beautiful babysitter Emma Betts passed away after three years of dealing with her melanoma diagnoses. It hasn’t been great. I feel like the rug has been pulled out from under me.”
Bec went to Vanuatu with her husband Brad and their three kids. The parents and eldest child Finn all contracted dengue fever, also known as break-bone fever (ouch) and Brad was hospitalised. And to make matters worse, their younger two kids also managed to pick something up on the South Pacific island.
“It was horrendous,” Bec says.
“It’s a thousand times worse than the actual flu… and it takes three to four months to actually recover from.”