Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Today I’m going to talk about something that we can all use around Thanksgiving and Hanukkah and Christmas… and that is forgiveness. If you’re looking ahead to all those holiday get-togethers and wondering how you’re going to handle that sibling who you’re not getting along with, or that friend who’s been badmouthing you behind your back, today’s podcast is for you! Because I’m going to share two really wonderful stories about forgiveness, and people working everything out— just in time for the holidays. Both of today’s stories come from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wonder of Christmas. 

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m going to introduce you to Julie Hornok, who is a regular writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul and also the mother of a teenager on the autism spectrum. Julie discovered her love for writing when her daughter, Lizzie, was diagnosed with autism at the age of two. At that point, she jumped into researching and implementing a home-therapy program. This led to a video blog that Julie made to help other parents of kids on the autism spectrum.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Here’s an interesting fact: Barnes & Noble said a couple of months ago that sales of books related to "finding happiness" had climbed 83 percent from a year ago. Well, today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from one of our bestselling books, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness. These stories will give you a couple of quick and easy ways to do just that—find your happiness.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and today we’re going to talk about stress, because vacations are over and we’re back to work and school, and all that stress may be starting up again. We put out a great book called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Say Goodbye to Stress, and it really helped me put all the stressful things in my own life into perspective, so I want to share a couple of helpful stories from it with you today.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday today on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. I met a really fascinating guy a few weeks ago when I was in Chicago, or as they say out there, when I was in the Chicagoland area. And today I want to introduce you to John Elliott, who wrote an amazing, perplexing story for our 2016 book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and Miracles.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some new favorites for you from our book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable. You may know that we get thousands of submissions for each of our books, and there are only 101 slots, so it allows us to publish truly fabulous stories. We also are sometimes inundated with hundreds of stories on a particular subtopic, and in the case of our new book about dreams and the unexplainable, one of the subtopics that was super popular was love stories – stories about people finding their soul mates in some crazy ways, through a dream, through a premonition, or through a startling coincidence.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration from Chicken Soup for the Soul. I want to share a couple of stories from our newest bestselling dog and cat books today, stories that are particularly relevant because they’re about rescues – cats and dogs rescued after hurricanes and floods, who turn around and rescue their humans right back.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday. I’m back today with my friend Mike Dow, America’s go-to therapist. We’ve written a great new Chicken Soup for the Soul book that does something different. It takes Chicken Soup for the Soul stories and combines them with Dr. Mike’s easy to understand explanations of cognitive behavioral therapy so that you can actually act as your own therapist and solve some of your problems yourself!

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Today I’m returning to one of my favorite topics—how your subconscious knows things about you that you’re just too busy to realize. It’s only while you’re sleeping that your subconscious can say, “Hey, I have something to tell you.” And it does that through your dreams. So I’m going to share two really cool stories with you, stories in which dreams revealed important truths to two of our writers.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some inspiration to help you conquer your fears—by exposing yourself to what you’re afraid of. Exposure therapy is a very effective form of behavioral therapy, and it’s one that you can do yourself, without even going to a therapist. Many of our writers seem to intuitively know how to do this for themselves, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you that show you how to do this yourself, no matter what it is that’s holding you back from fully enjoying your life.

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