SHELF‑Care: A Clinical Guide To Healing Through Reading

Field notes, research, and book‑based tools for real personal change.

Books for Grief: How Bibliotherapy Helps Children and Adults Heal bibliotherapy grief Aug 04, 2026

Books for Grief: How Stories Help Children and Adults Heal

A gentle guide to using books and bibliotherapy to support grief, loss, connection and emo...

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Books for Grief: Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten bibliotherapy grief Aug 04, 2026

Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten by Bob Graham is an excellent children's picture book for the SHELF-Care framework because it gently explores fear, assumpt...

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Evidence-informed social work supervision that helps you think, grow and thrive cubic knowledge shelf-care Jul 28, 2026

Professional Supervision for Social Workers. Grow your confidence. Deepen your practice. Sustain your career.

Professional supervision is more than a...

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Blissfully Slipping into Cognitive Decline (Post‑PhD Edition) phd Jul 20, 2026

I have slipped blissfully into cognitive decline. I fought it at first, but now I’ve accepted it as a normal part of the post‑PhD adjustment.

Alongsi...

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The Intimacy of Being Read To: When Was the Last Time It Happened to You? bibliotherapy Jul 16, 2026

Does anybody read to you? I don’t mean at a public event or a poetry night. I mean the way someone read to you as a child: in bed, on the couch, just ...

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The hidden codes inside Bambi and Mary Poppins. bibliotherapy shelf-care Jul 06, 2026

Bambi and Mary Poppins are two childhood classics many of us adore. The innocence, the heart‑tugging scenes, the emotional release from the music – th...

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Bullied, Shamed, Misunderstood: The Hidden Power of Lived Experience at Work my book shelf-care Jul 05, 2026

Have you ever been stereotyped and labelled? Called names like the "working wounded" because at work you show emotion or talk about past harms?

It hu...

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PhD Brain Is Real. Recovery Matters. bibliotherapy phd Jul 03, 2026

I submitted my PhD: Moving psychoeducation and bibliotherapy from self-help to SHELF-care: A consideration of Brene Brown's books through the lenses o...

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Peer Support for Allied Health HDR Students – Thursday Sessions Restarting peer support research Jun 30, 2026

Higher Degrees by Research can be both intellectually rewarding and personally demanding—especially within allied health fields where research often i...

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ZERO word swap for allied health professionals in research phd research social work Jul 27, 2025

Allied Health professionals, if you are doing a higher degree by research or are researching as part of your job then join our ZERO word swap as a way...

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Click with Your Audience: Build Confidence & Impact in Online & Conference Presentations speaker gigs speaking Jul 18, 2025

Do you remember that time I got caught on a live international stream with my pants down? Oh boy, for 15 minutes I was so embarrassed and just wanted ...

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Announcing a time and place change without changing my PhD focus phd research social work Jul 14, 2025

Life happens while you are doing a PhD. I was to hand in at the end of the 2025 financial year, but I was nowhere near ready. We had a serious family ...

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