Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

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Can You Really Be Too Tacky at Christmastime? Nov 26, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our new holiday book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. I don’t know about you, but when it comes to the holidays I’m a lot more accepting of cutesiness, and shininess, and a lot of decorating approaches that I wouldn’t accept at any other time of year. And that’s why today’s stories are about the theme “Can You Really Be Too Tacky at Christmastime?”

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A Little Motherly Scheming Nov 24, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share two stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. There’s something about the holiday season that sends parents into overdrive, with all the planning and moving parts, and strategizing about gifts and hoping that children who are grown and gone will still come home for the holidays. And that often involves a little motherly scheming, which is what our two stories are about today.

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Healing After a Suicide Nov 21, 2025

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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. The subtitle of the book talks about Forgiveness and Freedom, because that’s exactly what you get when you use the power of forgiveness—you get freedom. You’re really only hurting yourself when you don’t let go of the bad things from your past – the hurt, the disappointment, the resentment. Usually, the person you’re mad at doesn’t even know and is happily leading his or her own life… while you sit there stewing.

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Miraculous Pets – A Horse and a Kestrel Nov 19, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Wow Wednesday, which means it’s time for a couple of miracle stories. Today’s stories are about miraculous healing – of a horse in one story and a kestrel, which is a bird of prey, in the other. These stories are brand new to us and are from our latest book, out just in time for holiday shopping, which is all about pets – every kind of pet you can imagine, whether it lives inside or outside your home, and whether it walks, flies, swims, or slithers. I think we must have about 40 different kinds of pets in this new book, and of course a bunch of dog and cat stories as well. It was really fun to read the thousands of stories that were submitted and choose the 101 that made it into the book and be able to present such a wide variety of pets and pet experiences.

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Finding the Joy of the Holiday Season Nov 17, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from our new book about The Spirit of Christmas. This collection is the perfect way to get your holiday spirit going in time for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah and Christmas and all the other winter holidays that we enjoy while it’s getting darker and colder and we need to bring light into our days. These stories are about what happens when you think that Christmas is ruined but then you come around to finding the true spirit of Christmas after all.

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When Pets Make More Pets Nov 14, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets. This is the first time in decades that we’ve done a book about pets that is not just about dogs or cats. I haven’t counted but I think there are at least 40 kinds of pets in this new collection, every kind of furry, feathered, scaly, flying, walking, swimming, slithering, indoor or outdoor, tame or wild, tiny or gigantic pet imaginable. No matter what kind of pet people have, their stories are all about how their pets provide them with companionship, comfort, understanding and lots of life lessons. Plus a lot of laughs and entertainment.

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Listening to that Little Voice Inside You Nov 12, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which means that today I’m going to share a couple of awe-inspiring stories with you. These are from our latest book about Hope, Faith & Miracles, and they’re about how listening to that little voice inside you can be exactly the right thing to do even if you don’t understand why you are having that impulse.

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The Perfect Tree Nov 10, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from our new book about The Spirit of Christmas. I know we haven’t even gotten to Thanksgiving yet in the U.S., although it already happened in Canada, but before you know it we’ll be thinking about putting up those Christmas trees. So in our new book, after we spend chapter 1 talking about turkeys, we move on to trees in Chapter 2. Because there are so many ways to “do” a tree, as it turns out.

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Technology Is Not Your Friend Nov 07, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and some much needed comic relief. We have it for you in the form of our latest humor book, because if laughter is the best medicine then this is your prescription. I know some people think that Chicken Soup for the Soul is all about self-help or heartwarming stories but no, this is the eighth humor book that we’ve published since I became publisher in 2008. It’s filled with funny stories from 100 different writers, many of them making fun of themselves and sharing their most embarrassing moments. We’ve got stories about domestic disasters, wedding snafus, wardrobe malfunctions, words that came out wrong, marital mishaps, and all the other ways in which we find humor in our daily lives.

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Oh That Husband of Mine Nov 05, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. I’ve got more funny stories for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine. And today we’re talking about husbands and wives, and with wedding season coming this seems appropriate. Couples love to tell those slightly embarrassing hilarious stories about each other, and so do their kids. So let’s get started with a story by Sharon Pearson about a mistake that her father made that has become one of her family’s favorite memories.

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