The Bibliotherapists

Toni Jones & Tanya Lynch•shelfhelpclub.substack.com

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. This weekly digital retreat features conversations with some of our favourite Substack writers and authors, sharing about the books that have shaped their lives, and also their relationships with themselves. Book nerds will love the long lists of recommendations - both fiction and non-fiction - as our guests also share what they're reading now, as well as ideas on how to get intentional about reading and writing as a path to health, happiness and personal growth.

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The Bibliotherapists Ep #10: Emma Gannon on the pressures of success, the power of self-help and that tricky 2nd novel

Welcome to our 10th and final episode of season one of The Bibliotherapists, a podcast hosted on and celebrating the people of Substack. And we are closing out in style 🥳🥳🥳 with a conversation with one of the platform’s big success stories and biggest evangelists, Emma Gannon . Emma, 35, is a bestselling and award-winning author of seven books: including The Multi-Hyphen Method, The Success Myth , and A Year of Nothing . On Substack she publishes the super successful The Hyphen by Emma Gannon...

Jan 24, 2025•43 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #9: Women Are Mad - Jen & Salima on reading for feeling & healing

This week’s podcast episode is a brilliant double date, with Tanya and Toni joined by Salima Saxton and Jennifer Cox aka the founders of the feminist mental health platform, Women Are Mad . Salima and Jen have been best friends since they met at Cambridge University, bonding over both being state school kids who didn’t quite fit. Today, Salima is a relationship dynamics coach and Jen is a Kleinian psychotherapist, and through Women Are Mad (WAM) they are on a mission to make feelings fashionable...

Jan 17, 2025•44 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #8: Tamu Thomas - OUT with toxic productivity and IN with gentle unfolding for 2025

Tamu Thomas , is a transformational and embodiment coach, workshop facilitator, podcaster and somatic movement practitioner. Tamu helps over-functioning, over-working, high-achieving women to establish boundaries, find their purpose AND make good money. Toni interviewed Tamu about her first book, Women Who Work Too Much : Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy , in April last year, and we think Tamu’s book - and this conversation - is the perfect antidote for ‘new year new you’ ove...

Jan 03, 2025•45 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #7: Anne Boyd - What happens when you quit your life aged 50?

Our seventh episode of the podcast is actually the first one we recorded. And I (TJ) secretly think that scoring an interview with this guest was my co-host Tanya’s main motivation for embarking on this whole podcast journey. Listen to the interview and you’ll hear her girlcrushing hard on the author, professor, and Substack’s poster girl for midlife adventures, Anne Boyd. SHOW NOTES: In this episode Anne references and recommends lots of books by inspiring female writers, including: The Outrun ...

Dec 27, 2024•48 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #6: Laura Pashby - An author's guide to the best writing guides

Our sixth episode of the pod is definitely one for our writers friends out here. Whether you’re a published author or have just started posting on Substack, today’s guest, the writer, photographer, book seller and fog lover, Laura Pashby has SO MANY gems to inspire and support your writing. Laura’s new book, Chasing Fog , is out now, and in this conversation she reveals how she manages her time between writing, researching, marketing and selling books, creating a hit Substack AND looking after h...

Dec 20, 2024•42 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #5: Lucy Pearson - How to read 100 books before breakfast

It’s time for the fifth episode of our chart-topping new podcast, and we're SO glad we’re sharing this episode ahead of the Christmas holidays, because you’re going to need some serious down time to make any kind of dent in this guest’s EPIC reading list. Professional reader and writer Lucy Pearson lives and works between Bondi (Australia) and London (UK), curating libraries and book collections for hotels, homes and airbnbs, as well as working as a freelance travel journalist and book blogging ...

Dec 13, 2024•46 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #4: Claire Venus - Investing in my Self is key to Substack success

It’s time for a new episode of The Bibliotherapists, and today’s conversation is a really rather special one, because it features Claire Venus, a huge inspiration to our hosts Tanya and Toni, and the reason this podcast exists. It’s also a total celebration of taking the time to get to know ourselves and what makes us happy on the inside, in order to be able to best serve and ultimately create success on the outside. As you’ll hear in this episode, our guest is a shining (sparkling!) example of ...

Dec 06, 2024•47 min

The Bibliotherapists Ep #3: Beth Kempton - The older you are, the more you have to say as a writer

We're so excited to introduce you to our third podcast episode, and our very first celebrity guest, the wonderful Beth Kempton . Today’s episode is a joyous and juicy conversation featuring personal stories and odes to poetry, piles of book recommendations and - of course - a lot of Substack love. Beth has written SIX non-fiction books, including several bestsellers and several focused on her love affair with Japan. She is also an award-winning entrepreneur and writing mentor who spends her time...

Nov 29, 2024•58 min

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

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 pivotal books that ha...

Nov 22, 2024•36 min

A new podcast for word nerds! Ep #1: Meet The Bibliotherapists (Toni interviews Tanya)

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. This weekly digital retreat features conversations with some of our favourite Substack writers and authors, sharing about the books that have shaped their lives, and also their relationships with themselves. Book nerds will love the long lists of recommendations - including fiction and non-fiction - as our guests also share what they're read...

Nov 22, 2024•33 min

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