The website of this century's
top selling parenting author,
for his new book on restoring your mental health
and a return to joy..
Make Friends
With Your
WILD CREATURE
MIND
Steve Biddulph
A welcome from Steve..
Click below to read Steve's bio and background Steve Biddulph was a psychologist from the mid-1970’s until the early 2000’s. He is retired now but continues to write and sometimes teach. Steve’s books have sold over a million copies in each of these countries - Australia, the UK, Brazil, and Germany, and over two million copies in China. And lots more in 28 other languages. Making him the top selling parenting author in the world this century. (His nearest competitors are The Whole Brain Child, and Phillipa Perry’s excellent book, both on 3 million each and also excellent books!) Steve has an Order of Australia for his work in teenage mental health, and was voted Australian Father of the Year for his role in encouraging the role of fathers in the modern family. He studied as a Churchill Fellow in the western United States in group and family therapy, and his dissertation was on preventive mental health programs in small groups in primary school. He is married to Shaaron Biddulph, and because he is neurodivergent has been helped by her enormously over the forty years they have been together, to better able to contribute to the lives of others. Steve identifies as Interfaith, and comes from a Methodist left wing Christian tradition, which emphasises inclusion and endless revolution. He co-founded and co-lead the creation of the SIEVX Memorial in Canberra to the victims of that non accidental mass drowning tragedy. He also co-founded www.sufty.org to focus older people on the intergenerational genocide represented by climate change. Apart from that, he is surprisingly light hearted and going happily into cognitive decline. He enjoys kayaking, and being with friends old and young. He is presently working on a project called “The Decade of Farewell” and blogs about that elsewhere on this site.
Hello dear reader!
Perhaps this is our first meeting, or perhaps my books are already part of your life. Whichever it is, I hope you find great help here, as we work to turn this struggling world in a better direction.
"Wild Creature Mind" combines the ideas of British neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, with the cutting edge of somatic psychotherapy - Eugene Gendlin and the "felt sense" methods of dialoguing with our silent right hemisphere. In language simple enough and fun enough for any reader.
These ideas are bringing huge excitement to my colleagues around the world, but needed to be "got out there" for wider discussion and practical use..
To help heal trauma, convert anxiety into action, strengthen boundaries, and improve mental health in children, teens and adults.
Tapping into your animal brain and body systems to improve thinking and feeling and become infinitely more alive.
I've used exercizes you can easily follow, introduced the ideas, and the people behind them. Unforgettable stories bring the book to life and touch your heart so that you too can begin to use the methods right away.
I'm getting old (70 this year) and in my "decade of farewell" I want to get this fantastic message about the newest neuroscience into the hands of everyone. So you can bring more love into your family and our world. Because the need is great.
What the book is about..
A panther padding silently alongside you, watchful and alert. A fox cub asleep, nestled into your chest. Orcas breaking the surface in the dawn light.
Everything that the animal mind has, we have too. And it's been there since before we were born. Waiting to help us.
Our mind is so much more than we think.
"The skill of conversing with this hidden part of yourself can help you with almost any dilemma or situation. You can teach it to small children. It can help a teenager’s confidence or sense of direction. But it can also help old people face things that they are afraid of, and live fully to the very end. (That would be my category, ha ha!). This skill takes a bit of effort and openness, but the rewards are immense.By the time you finish this book, you will have the tools to inhabit your own self in a different way, a more intelligent and richer way. To be so much more alive!
Here is the bones of it..
We have two minds.
It’s the most radical new insight to have come out of neuroscience or psychology in a hundred years.
We have our normal mind, overthinking, rattling about, getting defensive. And our Wild Creature Mind - full of life, intelligence, sensitivity and connection. Where our capacity to love, care, and co-operate can heal and guide us.
But our Wild Creature Mind is silent, it speaks only through sensations down the midline of our body, as "felt sense" subtle, fresh and specific. You're feeling them right now, as you read this, and every second of your life. They are the way that animals organize and direct their actions, and their acute sensitivity and power. We just forgot they were there.
Our brain is divided, but our body is not, and we can dialogue with these sensations to track back into our Right Hemisphere, and know what it is trying to say. It's a powerful and surprising way to..
Solve anxiety.
Strengthen boundaries
Lift depression.
Rediscover love, tenderness and ferocity in your everyday life.
Help your children and teens, and yourself.
Build a better world.
Grrrrowlll!!