SHELF‑Care: A Clinical Guide To Healing Through Reading

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

Change of island for me as I complete my data collection norfolk island phd May 27, 2024

I've moved back to the big island, West Norfolk (mainland Australia). I am living in SEQld for the duration of my data collection and analysis. The ti...

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Interpretations of the written word brene brown phd Apr 27, 2024

I am motivated by a discussion facilitated by Professor Tara Brabazon at Digital Office Hours on the 26.4.24 (see 47.49). The peer led discussion on i...

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Death and dashes: Observations of PhD disruptions. phd Apr 26, 2024

Life can be so confronting. Hurtful. Fleeting. Hard. Doing a PhD does not make you immune. Life still gets in the way and needs dealing with....and li...

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Use your debriefing skills / raise your profile book club brene brown phd Apr 20, 2024

Calling Mental Health students and professionals. I need a few volunteer colleagues to attend my PhD data collection online Brene Brown book clubs inc...

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Contribute to PhD research: make a difference by discussing a Brene Brown book you read.  bibliotherapy book club brene brown phd popular culture psychoeducation Apr 15, 2024

Have you ever: 

  1. faced a life-changing experience that created a mental well-being challenge for you, AND  
  2. read one of Brene Brown’s books, AND 
  3. ...
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E.P Thompson. Writing by Candlelight dissenting intellectual marxism phd Apr 03, 2024

I am capturing this seminal dissenting intellectal's text here as it is not available as a downloadable Pdf or in ebook format...and I really want to ...

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Resisting the urge to run and hide equals vulnerability phd read resistance to the staus quo Mar 27, 2024

Today as I vulnerably await an outcome on my research ethics application that uses online book clubs as both methodology and method, I have read a cou...

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Observations of Lead with Courage workshop in Brisbane brene brown industry partnership phd Mar 24, 2024

A long held intention to attend a Dare to Lead training came to fruition, albeit for different reasons than originally intended. I initially came to l...

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The PhD Imposter Syndrome phd Mar 15, 2024

I post this as a confession, a reckoning, and an encouragement to other PhD students. I often feel overwhelmed, scared and dumb! I stumble my words, I...

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The differences between intellectuals: organic, public and traditional. gramsci phd Mar 14, 2024

Following up on an earlier blog on the difference between a traditional and organic intellectual today I went searching for information on how a publi...

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A reflection on evolution, resistance, and revolution phd Mar 04, 2024

Re-reading Daring Greatly (Brown 2012) to write a book review for Typeface Books, I was struck with how close the term evolution is to revolution and ...

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