Deep Listening Magic (with Emely Rumble)

About this episode

Nōn Wels interviews Emely Rumble about her experiences with bibliotherapy, deep listening, and the impact of public libraries.

On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone , Nōn sits down with biblio, poetry and hip hop therapist, creator of the Readers Who Run with the Wolves book club, and author of Bibliotherapy In the Bronx , Emely Rumble LCISW, to explore Emely's childhood being raised by her grandmother and the books that helped her to escape and to understand, foster care and the safety within being present, the life-changing power of public libraries, how hip hop therapy helped one of her client's open up his heart, and the connective, healing magic of deep listening. Helpful things mentioned during this episode: Bibliotherapy In the Bronx (Emely's book!) Emely on Instagram Emely's website Readers Who Run with the Wolves (free book club!) Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya We Alive, Beloved by Frederick Joseph Enjoy the podcast? Here are some ways to support to Nōn: Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org , Amazon , Barnes & Noble , or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know. Listen to You, Me, Empathy , Nōn's previous podcast about mental…

People in this episode

Host: Nōn Wels

Guest: Emely Rumble

Topics covered

• deep listening
• bibliotherapy
• hip hop therapy
• mental health
• childhood experiences
• public libraries

Keywords

• deep listening
• bibliotherapy
• mental health
• hip hop therapy
• public libraries
• childhood
• Emely Rumble

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Readers Who Run with the Wolves

Books & works: Bibliotherapy In the Bronx

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