An Invitation: Access All My Bibliotherapy Reflections, Resources and Bookish Insights On Substack

Hi there,

Hope you are having a lovely weekend! It’s been one-year since I began sharing all my bibliotherapy reflections and bibliotherapy resources on Substack as well as bookish insights! I’d love for you to read these. If you haven’t already had a chance to read or listen, you can do so on my Substack, Bibliotherapy with Bijal Shah. Here they all are:

• What is Bibliotherapy?
• Book Recommendations for Anxiety
• Book Recommendations for Loneliness
• What Kind of Issues Can be Treated with Bibliotherapy and Why Does it Work?
• How Effective is Bibliotherapy?
• Book Recommendations for Difficult Times
• Book Recommendations on Navigating Family Dynamics- Freud & Fairytales
• The World of Graphic Medicine- Book Recommendations on Healing from and Coping with Heartbreak
• How Literary Fiction Trumps All Other Genres When it Comes to Mentalising and Building Empathy.
• Book Recommendations on Embracing Change
• Literature on the Court: What Bibliotherapy and Tennis Have in Common
• Our 10 Most Notable Books of 2024- Carl Jung & Bibliotherap
• Indian Rasa Theory & Bibliotherapy
• Heartwarming and Uplifting Fiction and Nonfiction Reads from Indian Literature
• Books, Nooks and Bibliotherapy Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
• Life-changing Books That Make the Best Gifts
• My Favourite Books, Movies, TV Show and Quote from 2024- Exploring Scriptotherapy
• My Most Anticipated Reads of 2025- 2024 Reflections on Bibliotherapy
• Bibliotherapy in Bloom: Japanese Literature to Read This Spring
• Dostoyevsky and Bibliotherapy: Could One Say Dostoyevsky Understood Human Beings Better Than Freud?
• My Most Anticipated Spring & Summer Reads — Fiction and Non-Fiction Picks for 2025
• Healing Together: The Power of Group Bibliotherapy
• Neurodiversity & Bibliotherapy (Plus My Top Ten Books on Neurodiversity)
• Books Every Parent Needs After Watching Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’
• My Conversation with Sangeetha Menon on the Healing Power of Creativity and Stories
• The Intersection Between Bibliotherapy & Romantasy
• Book Recommendations for Women’s Empowerment this Women’s History Month. Here I share inspiring reads by and about women, celebrating strength, resilience, and stories that empower women.
• A conversation with literacy coach and bookologist, Stephanie Affinito, where we discuss the role of literary journaling and reflective practice in bibliotherapy.

I hope you enjoy them and find them useful! If you’d like to read some of these in full, you might like to become a paid member and access everything for the price of a cup of coffee a month ($5/month) or $50 annually. In addition, get 20% off forever by signing up using this link (you can cancel anytime): https://bibliotherapywithbijal.substack.com/e99b53a8.

If you’d like to learn more about bibliotherapy training, you might be interested in our Online Bibliotherapy Courses, Personalised Book Prescriptions, and/ or Bibliotherapy Sessions or my book, Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading, a helpful companion.

Enjoy the weekend and happy reading :)

Warmly,

Bijal

Originally published at https://www.booktherapy.io on June 7, 2025.