Welcome to The Shelf Help Club 💛
Helping you to read more and feel better
Hello and welcome to the Shelf Help Clubhouse, a membership space for the Shelf Help Club (SHC) designed to support your healing, happiness and growth.
I’m Toni, a journalist-turned-bibliotherapist and the founder of SHC, which is the world’s first dedicated self-help book club and platform.
What began eight years ago as a hobby book club on my own journey to better mental and emotional health has grown into a global community of 25,000+ readers and seekers. Together we’ve read 60+ self-help books, spoken with hundreds of bestselling authors, and supported thousands of people to make real, positive change.
Along the way, promoting and supporting self-help and self-discovery has become my passion, my purpose and my business, and, most importantly, I’ve transformed my own life — proof that The Work works!
Self-help can be life-changing. Self-help with friends? Pure magic.
And this is your invitation to join our private online Book Club, an intentionally positive space where we celebrate self-help 🥳 and working on our inner selves and our mental health, and I share tools, structure and community to help you to be your healthiest and happiest Self.
WHY JOIN THE SHELF HELP CLUBHOUSE COMMUNITY?
What to expect when you subscribe…
Free Subscriber = Stay in the loop. Great for dipping your toe into Shelf Help.
Paid Subscriber = Real transformation. Structure, accountability, and community to support your self-health journey (and you can try us out with a free 30-day trial)
FREE SUBSCRIBERS GET:
💌 Regular emails from me with book recommendations and info on our latest author events and workshops
👫 Basic community access, so you can start connecting with like-minded folk
🍿 Access to occasional live author events
PAID SUBSCRIBERS GET:
📚 Full Book Club Membership (structured read-alongs + deep discussions)
🎤 LIVE self-help author Q&As (ask your burning questions!)
💡 Guided discussions & prompts to turn insights into action
💬 Private Growth-Minded Community (a safe space for self-improvement)
📖 Full Community Access (meet other Bookworms online and offline)
IS THE SHELF HELP CLUB RIGHT FOR ME? YES, IF…
You want to actively support or improve your mental health, whether that’s to manage anxiety, stress, burnout, self-doubt, limiting beliefs or imposter syndrome.
You’re fed up of being a lone self-improvement wolf and your immediate circle just don’t seem to get it.
You LOVE reading the books, watching the TED talks and listening to he podcasts but you find it hard to take action and apply your learnings.
You’re overwhelmed by self-help options (too many books, not enough time).
You’re looking for a safe, non-judgmental space to have important conversations.
You feel stuck and are ready to make real change but you run out of motivation and struggle with consistency & accountability.
As gift for getting to the end of this post - you can claim a 50% discount on annual digital membership for LIFE if you join with at least one friend today…
Thanks for reading.
See you in the Club!
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