Róisín Ingle

I was much older, but I was interviewing her.

She was very kind to me at the time and actually has been a massive influence on me, especially when I got my diagnosis.

The idea that you can choose how to react to things was her and Viktor Frankl's big kind of philosophy, you know, the man's search for meaning.

And he was a big influence on Edith.

He was a big mentor for her.

And her point is that you can choose to be miserable or happy.

You can't change the past.

She said to me in one interview, but you can choose to be free and escape the concentration camp of your own mind.

And when I was dealing with my things and when I deal with them, it's it's so I hadn't realized how much I had to thank Edith for it, actually, for that state of mind.

Because I read Man's Search for Meaning just around when I got diagnosed and I have the choice at home.

I have a signed copy that she gave me.

And that idea that we have so much more power and that what we put inside our heads, we have control over and nobody can change that.

Nobody can take that out of our heads and we can decide how we react to things is really important.

And she really gave me that.

And I remember her talking, I remember when I met her that time, uh,

basically she got really deep very quickly I told her about my father dying and stuff like that and she you know what you need to do Roisin you need to go to I told her I'd never been to his grave you know and she said you need to go and you need to lie on that grave and you need to heal from your father's death and I have to say Edith if you're there if you're in heaven or wherever I still haven't done it but it was a really funny powerful moment where she was like very adamant so maybe I'll go and do that actually to honour her to sort of release that whatever that is that I still have going on

But ultimately, what a powerful woman who, like you say, went on to help an awful lot of people.

Yes, yeah.

I think she was 98.

She was absolutely incredible.