Our guest today is Jo Love, a mental health advocate, doodler, trainee psychotherapist and now author.

Jo’s first book Therapy is… Magic is an essential guide to the ups and downs and life-changing experiences of talking therapy. Part memoir and part 'how-to' guide it's a handbook on what to expect when you decide to seek out a therapist, based on Jo's own 18+ years experience of seeing mental health professionals.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Why ’slow Mondays’ are the best way to start the week

How it feels to share about mental health - and mental illness - online and in a book

Why therapy is hard, awkward and ongoing as well as 'magic' (and just one tool for managing mental well-being)

Why Jo is so nervous about her mum reading the book

Why mental health - like physical health - is something that needs to be maintained as a lifelong process

Why the wrong experience doesn’t mean that therapy is not right for you

How trauma (small 't') stays in our body and why we need to release it

How Trauma (capital 'T') can be baked into our DNA

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BOOKS REFERENCED:

Therapy is…Magic by Jo Love > https://amzn.to/3uBi8X3

On Becoming A Person by Carl Rogers > https://amzn.to/3HIXzeL

Find Your True Voice: Stop Listening to Your Inner Critic, Heal Your Trauma and Live a Life Full of Joy by Emmy Brunner > https://amzn.to/3oG3WZ3

A Manual for Being Human by Dr Sophie Mort > https://amzn.to/3HFxGws

Rise of the Girl: & Empowering Conversations to Have with Your Daughter by Jo Wimble-Groves > https://amzn.to/3HFw3Pt

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Phillipa Perry > https://amzn.to/3LzowEi

The Body Keeps The Score by Dr Bessel van Der Kolk > https://amzn.to/3GHUyu1

Depression in a Digital Age by Fiona Thomas > https://amzn.to/3oCBZRI

It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn > https://amzn.to/34u1gXm

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott > https://amzn.to/3oFEvql

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SHOW NOTES // FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JO:

website > www.jolove.co.uk

instagram > @jo__love__

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Erscheinungs­datum: 10.2.2022, 17:26:39