On this episode I help you deal with anger, anxiety or grief over a parent before reading this story by Charles Dickens called A Poor Relation's Story

I'll talk you down from your anxieties about romance and then read a short story by Edith Wharton called The Other Two.

Here we still ourselves to listen to the divine silence before hearing a story by Guy de Maupassant called The Necklace

Here I read a section of Maya Angelou's book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". The story is about Mrs. Flowers. But first I address unhelpful comparisons we make between ourselves and others.

I address the issue of anxiety and depression in young persons before reading Ladies and Gentlemen by Joyce Carol Oates

Listen to this classic short story by Jack London, but first I help you to indulge gratitude. It's good to stop and be thankful before going to sleep.

I talk about the troubles and anxieties you experiences with close friends or the lack thereof. Then I read Julie Romain by Guy de Maupassant

Whereupon I speak to your inner critic to shut them up. Then I read a short story by Tillie Olson called I Stand Here Ironing

Whereby I help to shut down those conversations you're having in your head and then read A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce

Whereupon I read The Great Carbuncle, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but not before chatting calmly about financial concerns you carry and inviting you to set them aside.