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31Jul

Women's Hormones and Mental Health: Hormonal by Eleanor Morgan

Julia Bueno

body, books, women

Therapists

Eleanor Morgan's new book Hormonal explores how medicine and society have misunderstood women's health and the connection between hormones and mental health
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20Jun

How Reading Fiction Can Heal

Christina Moutsou

books, therapy, wellbeing

Therapists

Reading books, particularly fiction, can help us understand our experience and our mental health, says Dr Christina Moutsou
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02May

Why I Wrote a Book About Miscarriage

Julia Bueno

books, grief, miscarriage, parenthood, trauma, women

Therapists

After losing her twins at 22 weeks, Julia Bueno has written a book about miscarriage, The Brink of Being, to support others
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13Feb

Ask Me About My Uterus: Memoir Highlights How Women's Pain is Ignored

Julia Bueno

books, health, society, women

Therapists

Abby Norman's memoir, Ask Me About My Uterus, details her experience of endometriosis and the challenge women face ensuring their pain is acknowledged
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05Feb

Rachel Kelly’s New Book Urges Action

Welldoing

books, cbt, self-help

Mind

Best-selling author Rachel Kelly has created a new workbook, Singing in the Rain, which focuses on practical tips for dealing with life's problems and low points
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29Nov

When Breath Becomes Air: Why We Should All Read More About Death

Clare Simmonds

books, death, illness, mortality

Therapists

Therapist Clare Simmonds reviews Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air
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22Aug

The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

Julia Bueno

abuse, books

Therapists

Maude Julien's memoir recounts a childhood spent in isolation, raised by abusive parents who believed it was their duty to raise her into the ultimate 'superhuman'
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05Jul

Growing up in the Rajneesh Cult: My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

Louise Chunn

books, therapy, TV

Soul

Tim Guest was only five when his mother took him into the Bhagwan Rajneesh cult. With the popularity of Netflix's Wild Wild Country, his book My Life in Orange is re-published
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14Jun

In Search of the Meaning of Motherhood

Julia Bueno

books, infertility, mother, motherhood

Therapists

Jessica Hepburn tried many times to get pregnant using IVF. Now she has written a book about motherhood, reviewed here by therapist Julia Bueno
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26Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2018: To Be a Machine

Sally Warren

books, Wellcomebookprize

Therapists

Wellcome Book Prize 2018 finalist To Be a Machine explores transhumanism and the desire to escape death and the fragility of the human body
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