SHELF‑Care: A Clinical Guide To Healing Through Reading
Field notes, research, and book‑based tools for real personal change.
Have you ever wondered about the life you might have lived if you had made a different choice?
Taken the job. Stayed in the relationship. Moved somew...
My book pitch is now sitting with my book coach, Andrew Griffiths.
Andrew is an entrepreneurial futurist, global speaker, business mentor and bestsel...
Is bibliotherapy a regulated profession in Australia? Can anyone call themselves a Bibliotherapist? Is bibliotherapy a regulated profession in Austral...
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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...