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AUGUST: The healing continues… ❤️‍🩹Coming up in the Shelf Help Club this month:• Weds 13th (12.30pm) - Lessons on Healin...
10/08/2025

AUGUST: The healing continues… ❤️‍🩹

Coming up in the Shelf Help Club this month:

• Weds 13th (12.30pm) - Lessons on Healing from a Wise Elder: a lunchtime live with spiritual mentor (all welcome, you’ll need to be following us on the SS app to access the livestream)

• Mon 18th (6pm) - Healing from Burnout: a Substack live with graceful productivity expert, (all welcome)

• Mon 18th (7pm) - Watch Party of Love(d), the documentary about Donna’s transformative healing retreat, The Bridge (members only)

• Tues 26th (7pm) - August Book Club for How We Heal by (members only)

Join us…?

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*NB these are UK times (the author lives will be recorded and shared with members)

Hoi Amsterdam! 👋 Celebrating a 7-yr friend-iversary with the brilliant by supporting her keynote talk at Mindvalley Uni...
06/08/2025

Hoi Amsterdam! 👋

Celebrating a 7-yr friend-iversary with the brilliant by supporting her keynote talk at Mindvalley University: Making Changes that Last (Thurs 7th, 11am on the Insights Stage). 🙌

Shahroo’s first book, The Kindness Method, changed my life, and was a SHC BOTM in August 2018 (BOTM #11… we’re now on #60!).

Then we fell in love over a mutual adoration of self-help, teaching self-compassion as a life skill… and Norwich city.

I am VERY excited to be here celebrating Shahroo aswell as all things personal development and self-discovery with the .events team. (It’s a Disneyland for self-help fans!).

Also managed to see .mental.fitness - another one of our featured authors - discussing visualisation and mental fitness on stage.

Feeling very inspired. And we’re only on Day #1!

Question of the day: Who is Your 2.0?

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🎧 I think summer is the perfect time to work on our spiritual health, and our next podcast guest is a favourite spiritua...
05/08/2025

🎧 I think summer is the perfect time to work on our spiritual health, and our next podcast guest is a favourite spiritual mentor… ✨

Hello episode FOUR of series two of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast all about the healing power of words that’s hosted on - and celebrates the people of - Substack.

For the next month my co-host and I will be sharing weekly conversations with writers and creatives whose work we love, asking them to share their VIBs (very important books) and how they use words to heal themselves, and others.

🎧 EPISODE 4: DONNA LANCASTER

For our next episode we’re joined by Donna Lancaster a life transitions coach, spiritual mentor and elder-in-training.

Donna, 58, has worked in the therapeutic space for more than 30 years, starting her career as a social worker. She was formerly the head of teaching at the Hoffman Institute UK, and co-created the renowned The Bridge Retreat, a six-day residential personal development experience.

(Our community will be watching Love(d), the documentary made about The Bridge, together on Monday 18th August so join us for that if you can).

This episode is a balm for anyone navigating loss, longing or big life transitions.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or access via our bios.

(And swipe left to have a look at a Donna Lancaster bookstack, as well as a behind-the-scenes snap of the interview. Our Substack subscribers also get access to the video interviews via the weekly email).

New episode every Friday. Enjoy!

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July Album 💛1. Read some books 2. Chose How We Heal by as SHC BOTM #603. Fritton Lake dips 4. No coffee (for a couple...
31/07/2025

July Album 💛

1. Read some books
2. Chose How We Heal by as SHC BOTM #60
3. Fritton Lake dips
4. No coffee (for a couple of weeks… missed it but my brain did stop fizzing!)
5. Spent a lot of time Zooming…
6. … and interviewed a host of amazing people for The Bibliotherapists Series 2
7. Wore a pink frilly b**b tube to work
8. Pilates on the deck
9/10. Mimosas and old friends in Brighton
11. Annie Mac pool party
12-16. South of France avec mon amour
17. Followed his majesty around Norfolk
18. New sauna vibes at the mill
19. Latitude with the boys
20. More sauna vibes with the girls

La vie est belle 💛

🎟️ TONIGHT! We have a double healing whammy for online Shelfies.6pm: I’ll be going Live on Substack with author to cele...
28/07/2025

🎟️ TONIGHT! We have a double healing whammy for online Shelfies.

6pm: I’ll be going Live on Substack with author to celebrate the launch of her latest book, Let Go (all welcome to that, you just need to be a free SHC subscriber).

7pm: It’s our monthly book club meet for members when we’ll be discussing insights and learnings so far from BOTM, How We Heal by

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A little bit about Natalie’s book (published by The Pound Project):

“It’s essentially what I learned about letting go and surrendering from what feels like a decade-long road of trials and is split into two parts: Family and Friction. Subjects I delve into include estrangement, grief, burnout, breaking up with my mother, chasing success, and my hysterectomy that led to a cancer diagnosis.”

Nat, author and host of the brilliant Baggage Reclaim podcast, will be discussing letting go as a path to healing, about family and friction, and we’ll learn all about The Pound Project and how they are shaking up the publishing world.

Join us!

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🎧 Hello episode three of series two of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast all about the healing power of words that’s hoste...
27/07/2025

🎧 Hello episode three of series two of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast all about the healing power of words that’s hosted on - and celebrates the people of - Substack.

Across summer my co-host and I will be sharing weekly conversations with writers and creatives whose work we love, asking them to share their VIBs (very important books) and how they use words to heal themselves, and others.

🎧 EPISODE 3: DAISY BUCHANAN

For this episode we are joined by an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster.

Daisy is a writer of fiction and non-fiction; her latest book, Read Yourself Happy, is a gorgeous guide for using books to reduce your anxiety and her most recent novel, Pity Party, just came out in paperback 🥳.

Daisy, 40, also hosts the chart-topping podcast, You’re Booked, interviewing legendary writers from all over the world AND supports new writers via her Substack publication, The Creative Confidence Clinic.

In other words, she’s a total and utter word nerd.

And a total delight to interview.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or access via our bios.

(Swipe left to have a look at a Daisy B bookstack, as well as a behind-the-scenes snap of the interview. And our Substack subscribers also get access to the video interviews via the Friday email).

New episode every Friday.

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Our latest podcast guest, Sam Baker, is a recovering magazine editor now using her writing and broadcasting skills to gi...
24/07/2025

Our latest podcast guest, Sam Baker, is a recovering magazine editor now using her writing and broadcasting skills to give voice to midlife women through her chart-topping podcast, online community and book of the same name, The Shift.

Sam writes about the stuff that 40+ women are all talking about, or at least *want* to be talking about (her latest post is all about midlife libido and atrophy).

And this book is THE guide to navigating midlife, and beyond.

Also it’s so good it has two subtitles, depending on when you picked up your copy:
1. (OG) How I (lost and) found myself after 40
2. (New) Join the menopause revolution
Both of which I’m sure lots of us here can relate to.

In our podcast Sam, a professional bookworm, shares her epic reading lists as well as the books that have shaped her life to date.

She also gets candid about her previous life in media, and how she has achieved more peace and better mental health in midlife.

(And you can swipe left for her Bibliotherapists book stack)

• Nights at The Circus by Angela Carter
• How to End a Story by Helen Garner
• Slow Horses by Mick Herron
• The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
• How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin

🎧 New episode every Friday.

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📣 London! Want to come and talk about how we (you) heal over Virgin palomas this week? ❤️‍🩹 As we prepare to relaunch ou...
20/07/2025

📣 London! Want to come and talk about how we (you) heal over Virgin palomas this week? ❤️‍🩹

As we prepare to relaunch our global local hosting programme at the end of summer I’m planning a series of IRL meetups in Shelf Help’s OG town, starting this week - Thurs July 24th.

Powered by the delicious AF drinks brand I’ll be hosting a monthly event at the v chic - and v central - Brityard venue.

This is a chance to meet like-minded self-help lovers in a beautiful space and talk about the things that matter.

Open to SHC members and friends. Limited ticket numbers left. All the info in Stories/at Shelfhelp.club.

(Reading the BOTM, How We Heal, optional but encouraged).

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On a long weekend in the south of France and am very impressed with my Airbnb library.Here’s the selection of English fi...
20/07/2025

On a long weekend in the south of France and am very impressed with my Airbnb library.

Here’s the selection of English fiction books available (fiction because… holidays!)

Where would you start?

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🎧 It’s time for the second episode of series two of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast all about the healing power of words...
18/07/2025

🎧 It’s time for the second episode of series two of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast all about the healing power of words that’s hosted on - and celebrates the people of - Substack.

For July & August my co-host and I will be sharing weekly conversations with writers and creatives whose work we love, asking them to share their VIBs (very important books) and how they use words to heal themselves, and others.

🎧 EPISODE 2: SAM BAKER

For this episode we are joined by sam baker, a journalist, broadcaster, author, midlife mentor and professional bookworm.

Having spent decades in magazine land, today Sam, 59, is known for ‘endlessly banging the drum for women in midlife and beyond’ as the creator of the podcast and substack, The Shift with Sam Baker.

In this conversation she talks to us about menopause, burnout and the transformational powerful of midlife, sharing her journey from glossy magazine editor to fierce advocate for women over 40.

She says: “Midlife is not a crisis. It’s a chance to ask: who am I now?”

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or access via our bios.

(Swipe left to have a look at a Sam Baker bookstack as well as a behind-the-scenes snap of the interview. And our Substack subscribers also get access to the video interview in today’s email).

New episode every Friday.

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✨ Ready for a reset? ✨Retreat Yourself, the shiny new book by is a beautifully practical guide to creating your own hea...
16/07/2025

✨ Ready for a reset? ✨

Retreat Yourself, the shiny new book by is a beautifully practical guide to creating your own healing retreat—wherever you are, and whatever you have going on in life. 🌿

No flights, no fancy spas, just time, space and intention.

This book is your invitation to slow down, tune in and reconnect—with nature, with ritual, and most importantly, with yourself.

📖 A must-read for anyone craving rest, clarity or a little sacred solitude.

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