Emely Rumble, LCSW Literapy NYC

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Welcome to LITERAPY: “Where literature and therapy meet to provide the everyday bibliophile with mental health support and diverse, therapeutic reading recommendations."

📚 Biblio | Poetry Therapist | Educator
✍️ Author of Bibliotherapy in The Bronx

Loving my new Kindle sticker: “HELLO I AM: reading my anxiety away” 😬📖Honestly… that’s been my story for as long as I ca...
12/21/2025

Loving my new Kindle sticker: “HELLO I AM: reading my anxiety away” 😬📖

Honestly… that’s been my story for as long as I can remember.

I was an anxious kid who found steadiness in books.

That love of reading grew into a lifelong practice and eventually into my work as a bibliotherapist, using literature as a tool for healing, reflection, and emotional survival.

That journey lives in my debut book, Bibliotherapy in the Bronx. I wrote it for the readers who turn to books when life feels heavy. For the people who read for their mental health. For the ones who underline, dog-ear pages, and say this book gets me.

And yes—also for ourselves. 🛋️ 📚

If you’re looking for a meaningful holiday gift for the reader in your life who reads to cope, to heal, or to feel less alone, or if you want to gift that kind of care to yourself, this book was made with you in mind. 🎁📚

Link in bio to grab a copy. Let’s keep reading our way through 2025 and beyond.

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12/21/2025

Grateful for the kind of book mail that feels both personal and purposeful 💛

Thank you to W. W. Norton & Company .mentalhealth for sending me an early copy of The Essential Guide for Counseling Black Women by LaNail R. Plummer, releasing January 27th.

This is a deeply needed resource for clinicians who want to show up with cultural humility, skill, and care when working with Black women while honoring our complexity, brilliance, grief, joy, and the very real systems we’re navigating.

I’m especially appreciating the therapist tips, reflective questions, and journaling prompts that invite collaboration rather than assumption.

And because books live inside families too… my 5-year-old made me a bookmark to “match the vibe” of this book 🥹📖 Watching her share it with me and tuck it into these pages felt like a quiet reminder of why this work matters across generations.

More thoughts soon from a bibliotherapy lens. For now, just sitting with gratitude for this book, for my daughter, and for stories that help us feel seen.

Save the date: January 27th and preorder your copy today and/or tell a friend who needs this resource 🫶🏽

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Just spent Saturday morning sitting around the table decorating DIY Christmas ornaments with my kids and best friend/hus...
12/20/2025

Just spent Saturday morning sitting around the table decorating DIY Christmas ornaments with my kids and best friend/husband. I’ve been working so hard and I am so tired but I am so grateful. I remember when I used to pray for mornings like this 🥹🙏🏾

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Just finished the audiobook of The Fair Weather Friend by Jessie Garcia and I’m still sitting in the shock 😮‍💨I put toge...
12/19/2025

Just finished the audiobook of The Fair Weather Friend by Jessie Garcia and I’m still sitting in the shock 😮‍💨

I put together our new dining room table and even wrapped a few presents while listening- that’s how good it was!

I love a good whodunnit and this one got me. The story opens with the sudden disappearance of a beloved TV meteorologist and spirals into a tense, layered mystery that peels back how little we really know about the people we think we understand.

I like the connections this story makes between childhood trauma and the danger of assumptions. The author shows how quickly we judge, how easily trust can be exploited, and how manipulation often hides in plain sight.

As someone who can usually predict twists, I was genuinely surprised (which doesn’t happen often!). The pacing, the shifting perspectives, the psychological tension all kept me locked in until the very end.

Big thanks to .audio for the advanced listener copy 🎧

This one releases January 20 and is perfect if you love smart, unsettling thrillers that linger long after the end. This is one I’d def like to read the physical copy of to see which clues I might have missed!

What audiobook are you taking into your weekend? Let me know!

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Took me a minute but I’m officially CANS certified in the great state of Massachusetts 🙌🏾🎉Always grateful to keep deepen...
12/19/2025

Took me a minute but I’m officially CANS certified in the great state of Massachusetts 🙌🏾🎉

Always grateful to keep deepening my tools so I can better support and nourish the well-being of children and families across systems.

The CANS reminds me (again) that good care is about seeing the whole story including needs, strengths, context, and possibility.

That’s the same heart behind my work as an expressive arts therapist and my book 📘 Bibliotherapy in the Bronx: listening closely, honoring lived experience, and using stories as pathways to healing.

Onward and upward! Here’s to more learning, more advocacy, more care. 💛📚

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Hazel Scott was a phenomenal jazz pianist and classical prodigy. She was also a trailblazer in Hollywood, refusing roles...
12/18/2025

Hazel Scott was a phenomenal jazz pianist and classical prodigy. She was also a trailblazer in Hollywood, refusing roles that trafficked in stereotypes.

She was a civil rights advocate who used her platform to challenge segregation, speak out against injustice, and live boldly in a time that punished Black women for doing exactly that.

She was also a mother, a friend to other icons of the era (shout out Billie!), and a woman navigating love. With Love From Harlem invites us to see all of it🥹

Pub date: Jan 27th

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I wrote a new Substack piece today about working motherhood, rest as resistance, and what it means to support women’s bu...
12/17/2025

I wrote a new Substack piece today about working motherhood, rest as resistance, and what it means to support women’s businesses without guilt or apology.

It was inspired by this sweater—Nap ME 24:7—made by the incredible Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, and by this season of my own life: returning to school social work in person, continuing to grow LiterapyNYC, and holding pride for everything it took to get here.

This essay is for the moms who mother first.
For the women building businesses between school drop-off and bedtime.

For those who know rest is not laziness it’s survival and strategy.

Read the full reflection on Words of Wellness 💛

LiterapyNYC.substack.com

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When I talk about bibliotherapy, I’m talking about survival, connection, and remembering ourselves.My friend Jess Hinds ...
12/16/2025

When I talk about bibliotherapy, I’m talking about survival, connection, and remembering ourselves.

My friend Jess Hinds beautifully explores this work in her new Lit Hub article, “Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World?” I’m honored to have my practice included.

This feels especially meaningful in a moment when so many of us are carrying quiet grief and loud overwhelm. Books don’t fix everything but they help us breathe.

Link to read below and in bye-oh 🤍

https://lithub.com/can-bibliotherapy-heal-the-pain-of-the-world/

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Hubby came home from TJ Maxx with my first Abby Jimenez book and honestly… the Book Doctor knew exactly what I needed 😉X...
12/15/2025

Hubby came home from TJ Maxx with my first Abby Jimenez book and honestly… the Book Doctor knew exactly what I needed 😉

Xavier is a grumpy vet who prefers animals over people (relatable) until her—and I love this softening journey for him so much 🥹💘

Who else has read Say You’ll Remember Me? Definitely one for animal/ dog lovers!

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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the advanced listeners copy of The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross 🪄 This story is...
12/14/2025

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the advanced listeners copy of The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross 🪄

This story is all about what we try to control when life feels unmanageable and what happens when we finally loosen our grip.

This is a thoughtful read for anyone navigating family legacy, loss, and the courage it takes to stop rewriting the past and stay with the present. ✨📖

Through Emerson, a ghostwriter who believes she can revise reality the way she revises stories, the book explores grief, Alzheimer’s (we meet her after her father has passed away), regret, hope, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters.

Emerson’s relationship with her mother is written so tenderly. I enjoyed the way support, accountability, and compassion coexist when addiction is finally named. As a bibliotherapist, I was moved by how the story explores helping a loved one seek care without rescuing them, and how healing often begins not with magic but with honesty.

This is a story about choosing presence over perfection, and learning to live without a script. Save and share with a friend who would love this upcoming new release!

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