Are You There Buddha? With Pip Harry

Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale

In Are You There Buddha? Author and CBCA winner, Pip Harry talks about coming of age, the mother-daughter relationship, periods and starting high school.

Pip Harry is an Australian children’s author and journalist. Her novel, The Little Wave, won the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Award for younger readers and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her young adult novels include I’ll Tell You Mine, Head of the River, and Because of You, shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Award and Queensland Literary Award. Her latest novel is Are You There, Buddha? and she is currently working on a new middle grade novel due for release in 2022.

In Are You There Buddha? Pip also talks about:

• How Pip became an author
• Are you there God, it is me Margaret
• The 80s: Cleo & Dolly magazines
• Periods in the 80s
• Why & when Pip wrote Are You There Buddha?
• From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing by Pip Harry
• The mother-daughter relationship
• The narcissistic mother
• Motherless daughters, eating disorders
• Abandonment and lack of attunement
• Absent mothers
• How a child feels when the mother abandons the family
• The May Gibbs Fellowship
• The step-mother and step-daughter relationship
• Mindfulness, meditation and Buddha
• Bee and Buddha
• The Great Mother and the feminine
• The noisy world that teenagers are growing up in and finding one's inner self
• Facebook aware of Instagram’s harmful effect on teenage girls, leak reveals
• Yumi Stynes, Welcome to Your Period
• The other relationships in Are You There Buddha?
• Leon, the perfect role model for boys
• Talking about climate change
• Criticism, rejection and the superego
• Create a period pack of books
• Dr Lara Owen: Her Blood is Gold
• Pip's first book in Big W
• Book face - Are You There Buddha is the perfect cover to create a book face

For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-039-are-you-buddha-with-pip-harry/