Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

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Still Married, Even After That! Nov 03, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I would imagine if you’ve been watching the news you might be looking for some comic relief. Well, if laughter is the best medicine then we have your prescription in the form of our latest humor book. 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, technology traumas, wardrobe malfunctions, words that came out wrong, mistaken identity, and all the other ways in which we find humor in our daily lives.

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Trick or Treat? A Dog’s View of Halloween Oct 31, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your daily dose of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today is Halloween, and I’ve been saving one of my favorite stories all year to tell you today. It’s from Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Believe My Dog Did That! and the story is called “Trick or Treat.”

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Miraculous Comfort While Grieving Oct 29, 2025

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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 new collection of them in a fun book we just published called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope, Faith & Miracles. We see a lot of stories about truly miraculous life-saving events that are really hard to explain, so I’m going to share a couple of those with you today.

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Reframe, Revisit, and Regain Your Joy Oct 27, 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. I didn’t really understand the power of forgiveness to change my life until I started doing this editor-in-chief job at Chicken Soup for the Soul 18 years ago. I always thought that the word “forgiveness” meant that you were excusing the person who hurt you, saying that it was okay. But it turns out that “forgiveness” doesn’t mean that. What it actually means is that you have decided not to keep reliving all the negative feelings associated with whatever bad thing happened to you. You may even come to understand WHY it happened and what drove the other person to act that way, which enables you to NOT take it personally. Because it was never really about you. It was about themselves.

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Ready, Set, Gobble Oct 24, 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 it seems a bit early for a Christmas book, but this is all about Thanksgiving too, and you know how retailers are—the moment Halloween is over the Christmas merchandise comes out, and they want our books in the stores by the middle of October. That’s okay because many of us love Thanksgiving almost as much as we love Christmas, so we always devote a lot of pages to Thanksgiving and turkey disaster stories and creative cooking ideas, and lots of other around-the-table stories that will get you ready for the holidays in general. And of course, we have to start with a turkey disaster story because that’s a holiday tradition for almost everyone.

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Angels Among Us Oct 22, 2025

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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 from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope, Faith & Miracles. I made this new collection 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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How to Push the Reset Button and Find Forgiveness and Peace with Your Ex Oct 20, 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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That Was Embarrassing Oct 17, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and in these unsettling times that means you need a big dose of laughter. We have it for you in the form of our latest 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, technology traumas, 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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I Can’t Believe I Did That Oct 15, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. There’s a lot going on out there right now and it’s confusing and divisive and no one is sure how it’s all going to work out. So it’s the perfect time for our new humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine. Just go ahead and turn off the news, shut down your social media, and return to one of the most basic, and most healthy, skills that we have—and that is humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. Our new collection of funny stories documents the mishaps and misadventures of daily life, as shared with us by about 100 different people. What I want to share today is two stories about mistaken identity, but not of the human variety.