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  • Books for boys w Lucas Oakley
    2025/07/11

    Boys read less than girls. That’s what the stats say, and today, writer, Lucas Oakley joins me to chat about why this is and gives some direction for guys looking to get into reading.

    Today’s paid partner is betterhelp, for 10% off your first month head to www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

    books discussed

    Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

    Mothers by Chris Power

    All that man is by David Soles

    Men without women by Murakami

    Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia De La Cerda

    The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

    Four Three Two One by Paul Auster

    A Little Life by Hanya Yangahara

    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

    For info on his new book and book club for boys follow Lucas on Instagram: @LucasOakeley

    buy me a coffee if you like, www.buymeacoffee.com/aneedtoread

    Feedback/comments welcome: aneedtoread.podcast@gmail.com

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    32 分
  • Depression: chemical imbalance or something else? with Joanna Moncrieff
    2025/07/02

    Today’s paid partner is BetterHelp, to get 10% off your first month of online therapy with a credentialed therapist head to www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

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    Today's conversation is with Joanna Moncreiff, the author of 'Chemically Imbalanced: the making and unmaking of the serotonin myth'. We discuss the history of the link between depression and serotonin, side effects of taking SSRI's and the emerging mental health treatment methods that we should be wary of.

    For help understanding how you can come off Anti Depressants, follow this link

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    A Need To Read is partnered with The Breath Space, a online Breath-work education and practise portal that I have been using for the last couple of months, alongside my course to become a breath-work facilitator. To check out how breathwork can help you, follow the link and use the code ED for 50% off your first 2 months.

    https://courses.thebreathspace.co.uk/your-breath-space-online-membership

    You can also support my work by heading to www.buymeacoffee.com/aneedtoread

    Any feedback is welcome: aneedtoread.podcast@gmail.com

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    1 時間 5 分
  • Irelands native rainforests with Matt Smith
    2025/05/19

    Matt Smith is a former professional surfer and sailor, now he spends his time on the west coast of Ireland as CEO of the charity HOMETREE (https://www.hometree.ie/about).

    You can find him on Instagram @thehonestcaptain where he talks about his projects show support

    www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

    www.buymeacoffee.com//aneedtoread

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    49 分
  • Welcome back
    2025/05/12

    Welcome back! I’ve been away for a while, and never even said see ya later or goodbye.

    This episode covers a little bit about why I stopped the podcast, what I’ve been up to, and where the podcast will go in the future.

    books recommended:

    100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

    Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob Wakesburg

    COMING UP: interviews with Matt Smith (Hometree CEO) & Ellie Middleton (author of UNMSKED & How To Be You), and a review of ‘The Compassionate Mind’ by Paul Gilbert

    let me know if you have any suggestions for guests or topics you want me to look in to aneedtoread.podcast@gmail.com

    sponsors: www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread for 10% off your first month of therapy

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    24 分
  • Entangled life of fungi with Merlin Sheldrake
    2023/02/17

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    Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama.

    His book Entangled life was a Sunday Times Bestseller.

    A-need-to-read is the code for an additional 10% off your first purchase with Urban Farm It, who do homegrown mushroom kits: https://urban-farm-it.com/

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    45 分
  • Novels to read in 2023
    2023/01/05

    In this episode, I chat about some fiction books that you might like to read this year.

    Books discussed

    When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labtut

    Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo

    A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksburg

    First Person Singular by Hariku Murakami

    If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura

    The Virgin Suicides & Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

    A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara

    Siddartha & Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

    100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    All of the links will take you to Bookshop.org, a website where when you buy books, you support small bookstores, and I also get 10% of the sale. Which is quite nice, init.

    Support for the podcast

    If you want to help me produce podcasts directly, which would be VERY KIND, head to www.buymeacoffee.com/aneedtoread

    You will have heard me bang on about how transformational therapy can be, that's why I am proud that Betterhelp sponsors A Need To Read. Meaning you get 10% off your first month if you wanted to chat with a therapist, just head to www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

    If you have any feedback, requests, or well-wishes, send me an email at hello@aneedtoread.co.uk

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    21 分
  • #187 Dan Osman
    2022/12/05

    Dan Osman is a Health and Wellbeing Educator, who has worked in the health and fitness industry for 17 years.

    We discuss; problems with social media, People’s relationships with diets, exercise, and themselves, Self-awareness, How to use values to guide you, confusing avoidance with enlightenment, body-image issues across genders, society’s contribution to body image issues, self-objectification, and have a general moan about empty mental health advocacy.

    Support for the podcast

    I'm an independent podcaster, which is a fancy way of saying no one pays me a regular wage. And, to level with you, that is terrifying- all of the time. So, if you like what I do and want me to keep doing it please support the show in one of the following ways.

    - Share the podcast with a friend, or review the podcast.

    - Make a one-off donation with BuyMeACoffee

    - The show is sponsored by BetterHelp, so you can get matched with a therapist within 48 hours and get 10% off your first month by heading to www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

    - You can also give me feedback/comments/validation by emailing me: hello (at) aneedtoread.co.uk

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    59 分
  • Saving the planet without the bullshit, with Assaad Razzouk
    2022/11/28

    Support for the podcast

    I'm an independent podcaster, which is a fancy way of saying no one pays me a regular wage. And, to level with you, that is terrifying- all of the time. So, if you like what I do and want me to keep doing it please support the show in one of the following ways.

    - Share the podcast with a friend, or review the podcast.

    - Make a one-off donation with BuyMeACoffee

    - The show is sponsored by BetterHelp, so you can get matched with a therapist within 48 hours and get 10% off your first month by heading to www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread

    - You can also give me feedback/comments/validation by emailing me: hello (at) aneedtoread.co.uk

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    36 分