I have some more exciting news to share! After the success of Season One of ‘Bibliotherapy with State Library Victoria’, with 20,000 listens, I’ve created Season Two.

Each episode focuses on a different feeling or experience and uses the healing power of literature to nourish and comfort us during this challenging time. In Season Two, a six-part series, I will read and speak to selected literary texts and poems that focus on various aspects of wellbeing, using a facilitated self-reflective approach. Again, you can find it on podcast apps or just goggle search ‘Bibliotherapy with State Library Victoria’.

For more information visit https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/bibliotherapy

Another chapter in a recent UK publication ‘Reading and mental health’, this time published by Palgrave UK, provides cutting-edge research and best-practice examples to demonstrate how reading benefits health and wellbeing.

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030217617

I have another chapter in a recent UK publication ‘Reading and mental health’, this time published by Palgrave UK, provides cutting-edge research and best-practice examples to demonstrate how reading benefits health and wellbeing.

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030217617

I have some exciting news to share! I have been working on a series of free bibliotherapy podcasts for State Library Victoria.

On Saturday State Library Victoria launch a new podcast series, Bibliotherapy with State Library Victoria. Each episode will focus on a different feeling or experience to use the healing power of literature to nourish and comfort us during this challenging time. In this 9-part series, I will read and speak to selected literary texts and poems that focus on different aspects of wellbeing, using a facilitated self-reflective approach. If you have friends or family you think would benefit from these free podcasts, please invite them to subscribe and, of course, I do hope you will listen for yourself.

https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/bibliotherapy

You can find it on podcast apps – just search ‘Bibliotherapy with State Library Victoria’ and links are provided below.

Spotify

Apple Podcasts

TuneIn

Stitcher

Launching our chapter in ‘Bibliotherapy ‘ the new bibliotherapy guide to support the health and wellbeing of communities published by Facet UK. Thank you Dr Sue Reynolds for launching.

“Reading is more than a distraction; it is an active engaging of the imagination, which causes you to enter what psychologists describe as an altered state of consciousness.”

Aurora article July 2018

I have a new article, Looking Beyond Traditional Bibliotherapy: A New View, recently published on Taylor & Francis Online and is in the latest issue of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, Issue 3.

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SYN9BFpHXY9EfaHeMuqS/full

During 774 ABC Melbourne recent Radio-in-Residence in the community at State Library Victoria, I was grateful to have the opportunity to talk bibliotherapy with the lovely Clare Bowditch

https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/peW3ZJa9a3?play=true