The internet can be both a treasure trove of insightful content and entertainment, and also a source of overwhelming information. That’s why the BTP team has come together to curate a Therapist‘s Corner post for you.

With Spring around the corner, March’s Therapist‘s Corner includes a selection of the best TV shows, books, podcasts, blogs, resources, quotes and memes (both classic and new) that we’ve come across to support you in your therapy and counselling work.

Our goal is to educate, inform and occasionally bring a smile to your face, and make your online experience a little more enjoyable.

Happy reading!

 TV/Cinema

My Fat Friend 

A Storyville documentary charting the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger (Your Fat Friend) to best-selling author and beloved podcaster. Aubrey’s aim? A paradigm shift in the way we see fat people and the fat on our own bodies. Her life-changing work has brought her an ardent international audience but also threats to her life. One of her biggest challenges is getting her parents to listen.

Made over six years by acclaimed director Jeanie Finlay, Your Fat Friend is a film about fatness, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies.

Available on BBC

The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia

Patients with extreme phobias check-in at an Amsterdam clinic where a cutting-edge therapy involves confronting their worst nightmares. But will they find a cure?

Available on Channel4

Books

“Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World” – Ann Kelley, Sue Marriott

Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today’s increasingly polarized world.

Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley, PhD and Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP integrate modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in even the most challenging relationships.

“Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” – Lindsay C Gibson

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood.

By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.

“Unshame: healing trauma-based shame through psychotherapy” – Carolyn Spring

A book for psychotherapists and their clients and for anyone who wants to make the journey from shame to unshame. This book explores Carolyn’s pathway towards ‘Unshame’. Suitable for both professionals and survivors alike, it is a fascinating insight into that most private and mysterious of places: the therapy room, and the mind.

Using dramatised therapy sessions between Carolyn and her therapist, this book is based on blog posts which appeared on Carolyn’s website during 2018 and which have now been collated and edited into a complete book, published in paperback for the first time.

“Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger” – Soraya Chemaly

This book is about shifting our public understanding of anger. In Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly argues that our anger is not only justified, it is also an active part of the solution. Approached with conscious intention, anger is a vital instrument, a radar for injustice and a catalyst for change.

On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power’ one we can no longer abide. ‘A work of great spirit and verve’ (Time), Rage Becomes Her is a validating, energizing read that will change the way you interact with the world around you.

  Recommended Podcasts

“Trauma Rewired” 

Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof host the Trauma Rewired podcast. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

The podcast explores topics such as the relationship between metabolic and nervous system health. It also explores traumatic brain injury and complex trauma. The podcast has featured guests such as Matt Bush and Amanda Smith.

Available on Spotify and Apple

“Hidden Brain” 

Hidden Brain is a podcast that uses science and storytelling to help people understand themselves and the world around them. The podcast combines research from psychology, neurobiology, economics, anthropology, and sociology.

Shankar Vedantam is the host of the Hidden Brain podcast. He is a science correspondent for NPR and a journalist who focuses on human behavior and the social sciences.

Available on Spotify

“Choiceology” 

Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab, explores the lessons of behavioral economics to help you improve your judgment and change for good. Katy Milkman hosts the podcast Choiceology. Choiceology is a podcast that explores behavioral economics to help people improve their judgment and make better decisions.

Available on Apple

Infographic – Definition of Success

Meme – For a Chuckle

Quote to Ponder

Articles

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