Matt Haig, THE COMFORT BOOK

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

"However bad things are, there's a resilience inside us that can actually cope with more than it feels like we can in any given moment." After completing The Midnight Library (which has now sold one million copies in the U.S.) at the start of the pandemic, Matt Haig wanted to create a book that was as comforting for others to read as it was for him to create. Having lived with anxiety, depression, and a panic disorder for most of his life, Matt compiled the most helpful habits, philosophies, and lessons to take readers along on a heartening mental health journey in The Comfort Book.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.8	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	I had the most amazing conversation with Matt Haig, who is the author of the New York Times bestseller at the
0:44.1	Midnight Library and the internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive.
0:49.2	And the follow-up notes on a nervous planet, along with six novels, including How to Stop
0:53.8	Time, and several
0:55.2	award-winning children's books. His latest book is called The Comfort Book and was just
0:59.8	amazing. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages, and I hope you enjoy this
1:04.9	conversation and that it really helps the ones who need it. Welcome, Mad. I'm so excited to have
1:10.3	you on moms don't have time to read books to
1:12.2	discuss your latest, the comfort book, which is so amazing. So welcome. It is so nice to be here, Zibby,
1:18.7	and I'm really looking forward to our chat. Oh, you were so open and just you put your heart on the page in this collection of thoughts and the occasional
1:31.3	recipe and musings and quotes and I was blown away. I was just totally blown away by your
1:38.2	transparency and insight and soulfulness and all of it and your willingness to share it with readers. Tell me
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