Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which is when I find awe-inspiring or unusual stories to share with you. Today I’ve got a couple of cool stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. The stories in this book show you how you can use your dreams and premonitions as a kind of user manual for your life. It’s amazing how much information you can get from your dreams, information that can vastly improve your life during your waking hours.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited to share a couple of stories with you from our latest humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Stop Laughing. This book is a true gift – one you can give yourself or anyone else in your life. Because we all need some comic relief these days, something to distract us from current events, social media, and all the other negative stuff we’re exposed to. The 101 stories in this new collection will make you feel good, and they’re all true, related to us by the people who lived through these hilarious and truly human experiences. No one is safe from our storytellers, from family members to friends to colleagues, and of course, themselves. Our storytellers are very good at sharing their own most embarrassing moments, and today we’ve got a couple of fun stories about how our writers just managed to avoid major embarrassment with their neighbors, through a combination of quick thinking and some pretty big white lies.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Care for the Caregiver, which is our most recent book. The stories in this book provide support and tips and plenty of humor for people who are involved in caregiving for family members with dementia, whether Alzheimer’s or one of the other kinds. These stories are incredibly helpful to someone who is starting to navigate the caregiving journey and they are also helpful and supportive for old pros. The dementia caregiving journey lasts for years, and everyone can benefit from the wise words and the humorous anecdotes shared by people who have been there, done that.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which is when I find awe-inspiring or surprising stories to share with you. Today I’ve got a couple of cool stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. The stories in this book show you how you can use your dreams and premonitions as a kind of GPS for your life. While you’re sleeping, and you’re not distracted by all the sights and sounds of the day, you can actually pay attention to your subconscious and it might reveal helpful things. Or you can believe that your dreams and premonitions are of divine origin, and we have many stories in the book that seem to fall into that category too, as they defy rational explanations!

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing a couple of stories from one of our latest audiobooks, the one that we made for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating the Spirit of America. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating the Spirit of America. It’s copyright 2026 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, and available now in all the places you go to listen to audiobooks.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share another couple of stories with you today from our book about why Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. We talked about self-care all summer… and now we’re looking forward to the holiday season when you will probably be way too busy and not necessarily taking the best care of yourself. So this is a reminder that you need to treat yourself once in a while, and not just save all the good stuff for everyone else.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, and I have a whole fresh crop of them for you now, because we’ve just published a new book called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope, Faith & Miracles. I put this new collection together by going through tens of thousands of the stories in our library and picking out the ones I wanted to put together for this new anthology, just in time for holiday shopping.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to share new stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let It Go, which is our latest best-selling self-help book. So, you may have heard about the book by Mel Robbins called The Let Them Theory, which repositions how we should handle our lives, by letting go of things that aren’t worth trying to control or are impossible to control. Why waste energy on those things? This life hack has been a big part of our messaging over the years, because it really works.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating the Spirit of America, our way of participating in the 250th birthday of the U.S. Our new book goes back to our roots as Americans, with stories that showcase our pride in our country, our industrious nature, our creativity and can-do attitude, our kindness, our open-mindedness. That’s the true spirit of America. It’s a country where we’re supposed to be focused on what unites us way more than what divides us. Without worrying about things like religion or race or country of origin. We’re all here, right?

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which is when I find awe-inspiring or surprising stories to share with you. Today I’ve got a couple of cool stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. The stories in this book show you how you can use your dreams and premonitions as a kind of GPS or user manual for your life. It’s amazing how much information you can get from your dreams. For example, we’ve gotten dozens of stories from people whose dreams told them who they were going to marry, and this wasn’t people they already knew… these were perfect strangers.

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