SHELF‑Care: A Clinical Guide To Healing Through Reading
Field notes, research, and book‑based tools for real personal change.
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...
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...
Professional Supervision for Social Workers. Grow your confidence. Deepen your practice. Sustain your career.
Professional supervision is more than a...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
I submitted my PhD:Â Moving psychoeducation and bibliotherapy from self-help to SHELF-care: A consideration of Brene Brown's books through the lenses o...
Higher Degrees by Research can be both intellectually rewarding and personally demanding—especially within allied health fields where research often i...
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...
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 ...
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 ...