The Mental Sessions - a pop-up podcast from The Shelf Help Club

May 17 2024

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The Shelf Help Club is the world’s first self-help book club and platform and is dedicated to celebrating self-help and supporting you to understand your Self and manage your mental health. This second podcast series is all about supporting you to move more for your mental health, which is the theme of this summer’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Movement IS medicine. And in this series we’ll be sharing ideas, stories and strategies from 11 different authors and experts including therapists, women’s health experts, mind-body pros, energy gurus and somatic healers.

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Nahid de Belgeonne: Soothe your nervous system with primal movement

May 17 2024 41 mins

Today’s guest is Nahid de Belgeonne, known as “the nervous system whisperer”, a Somatic Movement coach and breath and yoga teacher with a passion for sharing the healing benefits of movement. Nahid’s new book, Soothe: The Book Your Nervous System Has Been Longing For, is "a freeing and revolutionary approach to bodily tranquility," that can help us breathe, move a

Kim Ingleby: Moving helps me manage my neurodiversity and beat overwhelm

May 16 2024 33 mins

In this episode Toni is joined by 'brain ninja', Kim Ingleby, one of the UK's leading mind and body experts. Kim is an award-winning coach, writer and TED talker, and has trained with some of the world’s leaders in health, well-being and performance. Kim is another big retreat buddy, and we love talking to her and watching her on stage because she has so much wisdom

Dr Navaz Habib: A beginner's guide to the Vagus Nerve

May 16 2024 36 mins

Dr. Navaz Habib is the founder of Health Upgraded, a functional medicine and health optimization clinic in Toronto, Canada, working with everyone from athletes and entrepreneurs to busy mums and people struggling with their weight. He helps people identify the root causes of health imbalances and addresses them naturally, through basic but powerful practices available to us all in

Camilla Sacre-Dallerup: Movement is 100% self-care

May 15 2024 34 mins

Today's guest is Camilla Sacre-Dallerup, a Danish self-help author, life coach, meditation teacher, hypnotherapist and former professional dancer, known for being one of the original cast in the mega BBC show, Strictly Come Dancing. Camilla's THREE self-help books (It’s Not You It’s Me, Reinvent Me and Dream, Believe, Succeed are international bestsellers and she recent

Simon Alexander Ong: Don't overthink movement, just start!

May 15 2024 32 mins

Simon Alexander Ong is an award-winning personal development entrepreneur and coach, and the author of Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment. His work has been featured on Sky News and the BBC as well as Forbes, The HuffPost and The Guardian, and he’s always so generous to Shelf Help with his time and advice on living an optimised, but more importantly - happy - life. In this e

Claudia Evans: Self-acceptance has been my biggest challenge

May 14 2024 23 mins

Our guest for this episode is Toni's lovely friend, a personal trainer and fitness instructor, Claudia Evans. Claudia is a former professional dancer who now teaches fitness and movement full-time, including Spin, Barre and LaGree as well as running her own Body to the Beat dance fitness class. Just over 10 years ago Claudia’s mental health took a dive when she retired from d

Kate Rowe-Ham: The menopause is a time to reinvent how you move for your mental health

May 14 2024 33 mins

Today’s guest is Kate Rowe-Ham, a Women's Health Coach with a special interest in menopause fitness and nutrition. Kate is the founder of the Owning Your Menopause platform and the author of Owning Your Menopause: Fitter, calmer, Stronger in 30 Days. Kate wants to educate women on the benefits of movement and diet, so they can see how these go hand in hand in playing a funda

Suzy Reading: Restful movement is deeply purposeful... it's a 'doing' activity, not laziness.

May 13 2024 32 mins

Today’s guest is our friend and self-care queen Suzy Reading. Suzy is a psychologist, health coach and yoga teacher and author of several books on the subject of self-care, including; Rest to Reset, Sit to Get Fit and Self-care for Tough Times. The mum of two specialises in wellbeing: head, heart and body, helping people manage their emotions, energetic bank balances and the inev

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Anna Mathur: I love movement, but it's also an act of love for those around me

May 01 2024 34 mins

For the first episode of this series, Toni is joined by Anna Mathur, a mum of three, a psychotherapist, author and speaker. Anna has a passion for taking therapy out of the therapy room and is widely celebrated for her accessible mental health advice and the lightbulb moments she shares through her popular instagram account @annamathur, her best selling books, her podcast The Ther