The Therapeutic Poet

About the Substack

I write here to really encourage you to be more you. To help you give yourself permission to feel, rather than shrugging off your struggles with the shorthand of, ‘it’s bad for my mental health’.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Monthly. Happy days, hear from me once a month, general chit chat, observational humour and a poem popped in for good measure.

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Weekly subscriber-only posts 'feelings school' posts and full archive
  • Monthly 'shelfies', which is my round up of book recommendations in my eclectic poetry/therapy style.
  • Post comments and join the community

About Jacky Power

Addiction specialist and performance poet. Author of 'Stop the world I want to get off: words for when you want to leave the planet but don't have billions to build a rocket.' Creator and host of IWPA finalist podcast 'The Therapeutic Poet'.

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