Press and Writing Portfolio
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Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading (The book)
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Rami Library Event (Istanbul, Turkey)) (Bibliotherapy Workshop)
British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) University and College Counselling Journal November 2024 Issue (The Power of Words Headline Article p10 - p15)
Cheltenham Literature Festival (Bibliotherapy Talk)
Bibliotherapy Interview with Latvian Libraries Portal
Books That Can Heal (Good Housekeeping)
My Fiction Prescription (Woman's Own)
Did You Know Reading Can Reignite A Romance (The Irish Times' Gloss Magazine)
Book Announcement of Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading in the Bookseller (The Bookseller)
The healing power of storytelling (Therapist.com)
How to survive the 'post-book blues' (BBC Culture)
Why There's Healing Power in A Good Book (PS Magazine)
A Reading Retreat Helped Me Start A New Chapter (Daily Express)
A Literary Buff's Odyssey (SEEMA Network)
Meet the Book Doctor (Bookish Magazine)
Here's Why Escapist Fiction Shouldn't Be Looked Down Upon (Free Press Journal)
Book Box: Seven Powerful Books on Mental Health
Bored of books just catching dust? Let this service revive your reading list (The Independent)
Amity School of Languages Annual Magazine (Zenith, p53 - 57)
VICE's Refinery 29 Review of our Personalised Book Prescription Service
Reader's Digest article on How to Make Reading a Regular Habit
Buzzfeed's Review of our Personalised Book Prescription Service
Bibliotherapy and Confidence on Tania Cutari's Coaching IG Live
On Mara Girone's Empowering Voices podcast talking discussing Bibliotherapy
Talking All Things Bibliotherapy with Radio Free Brooklyn's Truth to Power Show
Bibliotherapy Feature (Mumbai Mid-day)
What I've Learned After Finally Reading the Hobbit (The Daily Telegraph)
HealthOMind interview Bijal Shah on Bibliotherapy
Lost the Motivation to Read for Pleasure? Here's How to Get It Back (HelloGiggles)
The Kelly Diane Report (Father's Day Gift Guide)
The best products to help children’s mental health during lockdown (My Anxious Life)
On Mental Health, Literature and Entrepreneurship on The Elevator (City Hindu Network)
Losing the plot? Ditch the phone and grab a classic (The Sunday Telegraph)
The Best Products to Help Children's Mental Health During A Lockdown
Why books can stop you losing the plot (Marie Claire)
A Slummy Mummy's Four For Teens Christmas Gift Guide
Women with Gifts International - Business Feature
Momma Reviews Valentine's Day Gift Guide
Blogs by FA - Personalised Reading List
Kate on Thin Ice - Book Review
Emma Stokes' Mother's Day Food & Lifestyle Gift Guide 2019
Kiddycharts Mother's Day Gift Guide
Asian Women Mean Business - Inspiration
Why Poetry is One of the Most Powerful Forms of Therapy (Asian Voice)
Literature and Therapeutic Word Art
5 Books on Finding Connection to People and Life (Asian Voice)
The Guardian Book Clinic - Therapists in Fiction
Our Daily Read - Incisive novels from the psychiatrists chair and beyond
Pirjo Suvilehto's Literature and Therapeutic Vocabulary
Crazy Carney's Parenting Podcast on How to Get your Child Reading
A 2-Step Guide to Getting Out of Toxic Friendships
Bibliotherapy Seminars
Radio Appearances
Podcast Appearances
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading Podcast - Multitudes Podcast
The Power of Bibliotherapy - Penny Wincer's Not Too Bust to Write Podcast
Bibliotherapy - The Power of Stories to Heal (on the Untriggered Parenting Podcast
Stephanie Affinito's Get Lit(erate) Podcast - The Healing Power of Books with Bijal Shah
Talking Creativity Books and Wellbeing with BiblioTherapist Bijal Shah
The Forgot Podcast - Book Therapy with Bijal Shah
Therapeutic Benefits of Reading & Journaling with Bibliotherapist Bijal Shah
Bibliotherapy and Confidence on Tania Cutari's Coaching IG Live
On Mara Girone's Empowering Voices podcast talking discussing Bibliotherapy
Talking All Things Bibliotherapy with Radio Free Brooklyn's Truth to Power Show
Video Appearances
Bibliotherapy and Grief with Author Julia Lee Barclay-Morton on her Virtual Author Chat series
Bibliotherapy and Confidence on Life Coach Tania Cutari's Coaching IG Live
HealthOMind interview Bijal Shah on Bibliotherapy
Independent Reviews
Rick Macdonnell's independent review of our Personalised Book Prescription service titled "A Book Therapist Prescribed Me 9 Books"
Other work published by Bijal
Therapeutic Fiction on Prescription — A Haitian Bibliotherapy Collection on Love, Loss and Grief
Two Dystopian Fiction Books to Read if You're Wondering How the Coronavirus Plays Out
Mamta Saha on the Therapeutic Power of Written Affirmations
One of the Best Books on Family and Relationships You’ll Read
The Therapeutic Power of Stories (PESI UK)
40 Books from 2019 You Need to Read in 2020
Neha Hiranandani’s 50 Indian Female Mavericks You’ve Never Heard About
Girl Power! 50 Extraordinary Indian Women that Smashed Status Quo
Who Am I, the Identity Crisis Faced by Millennials Today
4 Gorgeous Picture Books for Children Celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights
Philly & Friends, An Exciting New Publishing House for Diverse Children's Books
A Fabulous New Book on Mastering Your Own PR
Matt Zurbo: 365 kids books in 365 days
2019's Best Summer Nonfiction Reads So Far
French for Kids and Some Fabulous Bilingual Children's Books
Interview with Pirjo Suvilehto, Finnish Bibliotherapist and Doctor of Philosophy & Literature
Love Fiction? 6 Delightfully Anticipated Summer Reads from Around the World
The Power of Self-love and Book to Get You Started
The Therapeutic Power of Voice Journaling
Michelle Obama's "Becoming"- A Book Review
Three Fabulous Books for Two Year Olds
Why audiobooks are perfect for parents and four great ones to start the year.
Book Therapy's Best Books of 2018
Life is Too Short for the Wrong Books and Why We All Need a Book Curator
7 Books on finding greater connection to people and life
3 Non-fiction reads that are going to be huge this fall
A Child-hugging Robot for the Nuclear Family
Four fiction books you need to read this Autumn
The best books of 2018 so far…
Why Literary Fiction is My Favourite Form of Therapy
A Novel Literary Advice Service: introducing Book Therapy
Weekend Reads — 29 June to 6 July 2018
Literature’s 13 most unusual books
Weekend Reads — June 22 to June 29 2018
The Japanese books that are making loneliness popular
A Book Prescription for a trip to New York
A Book Prescription for Meghan Markle
Don't chase happiness, chase this instead.
Bibliotherapy is everywhere I look
Four invaluable books to help you transform your writing from good to great
Help your child become a lifelong reader
Why we need to adopt these words for happiness in other languages
Poems published by Bijal
Letting your children go (A Poem)
Life's A Series of Journeys (A Poem)
My Favourite Book Therapy Quotes
Transactional Relationship (A Poem)
Short Life Advice for my Kids (A Poem)
It's Ok Not to be Happy All The Time (A Poem)
No, I Don't Want to Pursue YOur Dream (A Poem)
The Corporate Bully vs The People (A Poem)
My Heaven and My Hell (A Poem)
Books Published by Bijal
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading
The Happiness Mindset: 12 Strategies for Happiness and Success I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Younger
Literary Guides
Literary Travel Guide to New York: What to Read and Where to Visit
Meditations on Khalil Gibran's The Prophet: What Gibran's Poetry Fables Teaches Us About Life
Writing Therapy: A Self-Therapy Literary Guide
The Power of Poetry as Therapy: Reading and Writing Poetry As Therapy
Literary Travel Guide to London: What to Read and Where to Visit
A Literary Guide on Dealing with Friendship Break Ups
15 Minute Shorts
Say Hello to Happier, More Resilient Kids
A Short History of Warren Buffett
Eudaimonia, The Art of Flourishing
A big hello and thank you for reading! Passionate about literature, psychology, and life I launched Book Therapy as an alternative form of therapy using the power of literature. I train mental health professionals, librarians, teachers as well as readers on using bibliotherapy in their own work through our online Bibliotherapy, Literature and Mental Health course. We also curate reading lists/personalised book prescriptions for clients based on their individual needs. This is our signature personalised reading service.
You can also check out Book Therapy’s other free reading lists and A- Z of book prescriptions (covering both fiction and non-fiction). These suggest books based on your existing life situation (e.g. anxiety, job change, relationship heartache) as well as interests (e.g memoir, historical fiction, non-fiction, crime etc). There’s also a Children’s A — Z of Book Prescriptions. Feel free to check out the blog for more literary gems. There’s also a post on my personal story of how I entered the world of bibliotherapy and book curation.
In this role, I have had the opportunity to publish two books, Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading and The Happiness Mindset, and write various literary essays and pieces for newspapers and magazines. I have undertaken bibliotherapy workshops for The United Nations, various libraries in New York and corporate organisations in the UK and US. My book recommendations have featured in the Guardian, Marie Claire, NBC News, Asian Voice, New York Observer, Sydney Telegraph and various other publications. If you are a parent you might enjoy a podcast I’ve recorded with speech and language therapist Sunita Shah on Raising A Reader & Storyteller. And if you’d like to connect, email me at bijal@booktherapy.io or www.booktherapy.io.
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