Osher Günsberg: ‘The worst thing is being told the pain is all in your head. But holy moly, was it empowering!’
From hard-partying TV star to mindfulness-practising family guy, Gunsberg says he got really lucky in life. But he also got osteoarthritis in his 30s
Osher Gunsberg keeps stopping to smell the flowers. As we walk along Sydney's eastern coastline, he cuts himself off mid-sentence to point out warrigal greens (cook them like kale or spinach, they're really good") and ginger (someone will pinch it soon, he says, given those things are $20 a kilo"). We pause to touch the soft fronds of a woolly bush, which he uses at home in place of a Christmas tree, and admire the seed pods and bottle brushes growing wild.
The TV host is not launching a new career as a botanist but trying to impart a lesson about the value of mindfulness - and how all it takes is slowing down to notice the things around us.
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