Ep. 312 You: A Beginner's Guide with Toni Jones of Shelf Help
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Natalie chats with Toni Jones, founder of Shelf Help book club and author of "You: A Beginner's Guide." They explore the shame stories we carry from childhood, why doing self-help in community matters, learning to hear your inner wisdom, and how slowing down creates space for life-saving decisions.
You: A Beginner's Guide by Toni Jones @ The Pound Project until May 26th, 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Liu, and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, where we break the patterns that break our hearts, relationships and bodies. |
| 0:09.5 | Since 2005, I've run one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, BaggageReclame.com. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm a boundaries and relationship coach and the author of five books including Mr. Unavailable and |
| 0:21.4 | the fallback girl and the joy of saying no. I help you reclaim yourself from emotional |
| 0:27.2 | baggage by letting go of emotional unavailability, people pleasing and unhealthy relationships |
| 0:33.0 | so you can live in love with more love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:42.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:49.3 | In this episode, I chat with Tony Jones, founder of the world's first South Help Book Club, |
| 0:50.2 | Shelfhulp. |
| 0:55.9 | We first collected back in 2023 when she interviewed me about my book, The Joy of Say No, and we've stayed in touch ever since. She's got a limited edition book out for a short time. |
| 1:02.5 | You, a beginner's guide, and in recognizing so many parallels in our journeys, I knew I needed to |
| 1:08.6 | have her on. Tony's read over 1,000 self-help books over the last |
| 1:13.9 | decade and learned a lot about how to be more of and take care of ourselves, which, of course, |
| 1:20.3 | is a topic right up my street. Let's get into it. |
| 1:30.9 | This is take two for us. |
| 1:33.0 | It really is. |
| 1:35.3 | This is the third time I've seen you this week, which is... I know, which is great. |
| 1:36.3 | How exciting. |
| 1:37.2 | What a treat. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, we saw each other for a little bit on Wednesday at the South Bank Centre in central London. |
| 1:42.9 | Then I was like, oh, you're out tomorrow. |
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