Ep #2: Meet The Bibliotherapists Part 2 (Tanya interviews Toni)

Hello everybody,

The Bibliotherapists, is a new podcast from Substackers and community builders Tanya Lynch (EASE Retreats) and Toni Jones (The Shelf Help Club) exploring the healing power of words.

You can read all about how our story began in Episode #1 and our first post (in which host Toni interviews host Tanya).

And in this episode we continue the intros, with Tanya interviewing Toni, and we learn all about how and why, aged 40, Toni created the world’s first self-help book club, and the books that have supported her personal and professional growth since.

Show notes! In this episode Toni references these books (clockwise from top left): The Celestine Prophecy, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Money A Love Story, Self-Care for Winter, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Kindness Method, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Change Your Life in 7 days

SHOW NOTES:

In this episode Toni references and recommends 8 books, including:

1. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis

2. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

3. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

4. Money a Love Story by Kate Northrup

5. Self-care for Winter by Suzy Reading

6. Change Your life in 7 days by Paul McKenna - 

7. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

8. The Kindness Method by Shahroo Izadi

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Our DREAM line-up of Substack writers and authors for Series 1 includes (clockwise from top): Beth Kempton, Laura Pashby, Anne Boyd, Tamu Thomas, Emma Gannon, Jen and Salima (Women are Mad), Claire Venus and Lucy Pearson

ABOUT THE BIBLIOTHERAPISTS

This podcast is a love letter to reading and writing and storytelling.

This weekly digital retreat features conversations with some of our favourite Substack writers and authors, sharing about the the books that have shaped their lives and their relationships with themselves, the books they wish everyone would read, how they use reading and writing to support their mental health, and the books they are reading right now.

We’ve spent the last two months interviewing some incredible writers and creatives, including Beth Kempton, Claire Venus (she/her) ✨, Women Are Mad with Jen&Salima, Anne Boyd, Laura Pashby, Lucy Pearson, Tamu Thomas and Emma Gannon to close Series 1.

We can’t wait for you to listen. Please share with the people you love, let us know what you think, and - of course - what you are reading right now…

Toni (& Tanya)

xx

PS: You’ll be able to listen to these podcast episodes on all the usual outlets but we’ll only be sharing the video recordings here on Substack (see below)

PPS: Up next week - Beth Kempton!