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A big hello and welcome! Here's a little bit about me.
I was born in 1982 in Nairobi, Kenya where I spent my childhood and teenage years. In 1998, my family and I immigrated to London, UK. I attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in North London and then went on to study Mathematics at the University of Warwick. After completing my Bachelors in Science in Mathematics, I pursued a professional accounting qualification with Ernst and Young. Shortly after I joined Credit Suisse, a Swiss investment bank.
After 14 years spent in investment banking, it was time for a change. I was really keen to pursue my passion for literature, writing and psychology. I completed a diploma in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy, a refreshing change from my previous life as a mathematician.
I published The Happiness Mindset in 2014, originally under a pen name (Brandon Stanberg) and later under my own name after watching its success.
At the same time I realised how much I loved helping others, particularly using the power of literature. Book Therapy was born - a novel literary advice service that helps match people to books based on their individual needs, interests and reading habits.
Book Prescriptions
Helping others discover wonderful new books (and old) meant understanding their current needs. The books prescribed could be for a specific predicament they find themselves in (for example, struggling with bereavement, friendship breakups, ticking biological clock, fatherhood, redundancy, regret etc) or they could be a travel prescription for a holiday read (check out our book prescription for New York for example).
The personalised book prescriptions have been very popular. These are prepared in the form of recommended reading lists that comprise a minimum of seven to ten books. If you fancy one yourself, you can purchase one at the following link: personalised book prescriptions. You can also gift these for a loved one. https://www.booktherapy.io/products/personalised-book-prescriptions-2
Feel free to check out the free list of book prescriptions titled A - Z of Book Prescriptions at https://www.booktherapy.io/pages/a-z-of-book-prescriptions
These cover a variety of genres ranging from literary fiction, historical fiction, romance, classics, thrillers, non-fiction, self-development, spiritual, food, dance, the arts, culture, society, parenting, biographies and memoir, essays, true crime, audiobooks, photography etc. They also cover different life situations (e.g. anxiety, job change, relationship heartache) as well as interests (e.g memoir, historical fiction, non-fiction etc). There's also a children's reading list: Children's A - Z of Book Prescriptions. Feel free to subscribe to the blog too (https://www.booktherapy.io/blogs/news).
Would you just like to connect? Email me at bijal@booktherapy.io.
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