The Chapters

This week, we are joined by the incomparable Monica Heisey - we know her as the woman who coined the term ‘emotionally nude’ and ‘Great wall of china level single’, but she is more widely known for her writing of Really Good Actually and television writing on shows like Schitts Creek and Workin Moms. Monica joins us as we dive head first into your dilemmas about boyfriends giving crumbs when we deserve the whole cake, and what to feel when you feeling nothing. A must listen!

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

This week, the girls ask: what is a decidual cast? Is it true our body needs different nutrients during our cycle? How TF do I learn about my cycle, I thought my period was just one week?! Don't worry, we're in our late twenties and still clueless, we weren't taught about our bodies and our cycles, and it's time to fix that! (CN: This episode contains discussion of endometriosis, inclusive talk about periods and menstruating people, and mentions of bl**d) 

Book recs:
Period Power by Maisie Hill
Rebel Bodies by Sarah Graham
Cycles: The Science of Periods, Why They Matter, and How to Nourish Each Phase by Amy J. Hammer
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

This episode is a HARD RELATE. Ever felt like your job defines you and your friendship circle? Wondering who you are without your to do list? This week's dilemma is sure to help you out if you're a workaholic with enabling friends. Here's The Chapters' girls take on how to move on from work-only friendships, jobs that no longer serve us, and carve out meaningful time for yourself.

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] This podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Reccos:
Normal People by Sally Rooney (maybe Conversations with Friends)
Zadie Smith - especially Swing Time and On Beauty
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
Elizabeth Gilbert - especially Big Magic
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Keep the Receipts by Audrey Indome, Milena Sanchez, and Tolani Shoneye (The Receipts Podcast)
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Bonjour book lovers, this one's a juicy one! We have two emotional rollercoaster dilemmas for you; one about cheating, self worth, and single motherhood, and the other about queerness, identity and supporting a trans sibling. Want to share your advice? Share your takes on socials and tag us!

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Reccos:
Dilemma One:
Gender Euphoria ed. by Laura Kate Dale
A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
To My Trans Sisters ed. by Charlie Craggs
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Gender Games by Juno Dawson
Am I Trans Enough?: How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self by Alo Johnston
Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi
Dylan Mulvaney
Sources of advice and guidance: Mermaids Gender, Switchboard, Stonewall

Dilemma Two:
Happy Single Mother by Sarah Thompson
Motherhood Your Way by Hollie de Cruz
Give Birth Like a Feminist by Milli Hill
Rupi Kaur poetry would be easy to digest and uplifting
Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
The Breakup Monologues by Rosie Wilby
Know Your Worth by Anna Mathur
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Hollie McNish poetry
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single by Catherine Grey
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Phillipa Perry
Going Solo by Genevive Roberts

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

It's Wednesday, you know what that means... A brand new episode of The Chapters! This week, the girls tackle dilemmas about life expectations, things not going to plan, friendships falling apart, but ultimately, how to put everything back together. Life doesn't always work out how we thought it would, but there is beauty in the unexpected and the challenges. We have the books, tools, and big sister advice you need to guide you through the next chapter of your life...

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Reccos:
Dilemma One:
Easy Beauty
Anything by Mary Oliver
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson

Dilemma Two:
Best Friends by Kamila Shamsie
Queenie by Candice Carty Williams
People Person by Candice Carty Williams
Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Happy New Year, readers! After a joyful and restful break, your favourite bookish gals are back with our first podcast of 2023! This episode is all about bringing your best mindset to the New Year, and blocking out the noise of 'new year new me' and focusing on your mental health and wellness - ft the impeccible life advice from Elle which is simply: eat an orange in the shower. Need we say more? Please note this episode was recorded pre Xmas. Hope you enjoy, and we'll now be back in your ears once a week!

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Reccos:
Manifest - Roxy Nafusi

Wintering by Katherine May

A Manual for being human 

The body keeps the score

Choose Joy by Sophie Mills

Enchantment by Katherine May 

Winter Hours by Mary OIiver

The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul- William Sieghart 

No Such Thing as Normal, Bryony Gordon

Jog On, Bella Mackie

What Mental Illness Really Is... (and what it isn't) by Lucy Foulkes

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

This episode is one I'm sure we can all relate to - how do we navigate opinionated, controlling, nosy family with high expectations?! We all want to make our family and in laws happy, but celebrations like weddings, birthdays, achievements, new babies can put family dynamics under a microscope. How do we make decisions that are true to us and not to make other family members happy? How do we set boundaries with our family and in laws when we need them? What books are out there that touch on this and make us feel seen, whilst helping us to move forward? Molly and Em have all the answers you need...

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book recommendations:
Dilemma 1:
Yinka Where Is Your Husband - Lizzie Blackburn 

Concerning My Daughter - Kim Hye Jin

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Dilemma 2:
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 

Big little lies by lianne moriarty 

My Dark Vanessa 

The Places I’ve Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Join Molly, Elle and Emma in this episode as they discuss dilemmas around the BIG life choices. We've all spent time debating what the 'perfect' 5 year plan looks like, comparing our choices to our friends, and ultimately asking, how do we know what is right for us? This week, the girls chat about a listener's dilemma of being childfree by choice in a world of expectations for women and people with wombs, and what to do when you're stuck in a rut and full of regrets.

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book recommendations:
Dilemma 1:
Olive by Emma Gannon 
“Sixteen Writers on the Decision to Not Have Kids: Selfish Shallow and Self-Absorbed,” edited by Meghan Daum
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dilemma 2:
Careering by Daisy Buchanan
Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
Work Won’t Love you back by Sarah Jaffe
Literally everything Mary Oliver ever wrote, especially ‘The Summer Day’
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Short Stories by Grace Paley 
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

We're BACK, BABY! After a short hiatus (co-ordinating our Christmas launches!) we're delighted to be back sharing OUR dilemmas with you all, and recommending books to help each other! In this episode, Emma and Molly discuss creating adulting habits when you Just Can't Even, and building confidence and authenticity after struggling with a knock. 

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book recommendations:

Recommendations for Emma:
Atomic Habit: Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour by James Clear
My Morning Routine- How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired
Get Your Shit together journal by Sarah knight
Working Hard or Hardly Working by Grace Beverly

Recommendations for Molly:
The Body Keeps the Score
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Discomfort - Farrah Storr

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

In this minisode, the girls answer one of your dilemmas about being single, not seeking romance, and happily so! It's a delicate balance, and one that society loves to remind us is akin to spinsterhood, but can we find examples of consciously uncoupled singles in fiction to empower you? Would reading the right book about the right single character make you feel more confident and reinforce your own choices? Why does society deem singlehood endearing for men but pitiful for women? These are some of the questions Emma and Molly dive into in answering this week's dilemma!

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book recommendations:
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
Unattached by Angelica Malin
Queenie by Candice Carty Williams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk