John Robins
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2,358 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
John Robins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it works so well as a device, reading it, because...
we're able to understand reading what's going on in perhaps language you might not have used about your own situation.
And we can all like tune into the way families talk about things or perhaps try to put on a brave face
which in a weird way like reveals the severity even more.
Because we know how mums might talk about our difficulties to other family members.
And something your mum writes is especially moving where she's sort of writing to you in the book and she says, your mind is going to be your best weapon.
And I wondered if you could maybe speak to your experience of that.
I know that's quite a big question.
But I guess that weapon can work for you and against you.
Yeah.
And that really is the experience you document is you can be your own best friend and your own worst enemy because you're going through something so extreme.
So maybe you could tell us a bit about what that phrase means to you.
Your mind is going to be your best weapon.
Just to take you back to the physical healing.
And I'm almost like hesitant to call it healing
because I didn't understand what recovery from severe burns is like.
And it's not a linear process of I'm burned, I'm healing, I'm healing, I'm healing, I'm healed.
I mean, the skin grafts, the pain, the setbacks, the grafts not taking, the sort of moving the wrong way in the shower and setting yourself back two weeks and two operations and that kind of thing.
And at one point you say, I'm sick of healing.
Could you talk about recovery fatigue?
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