It's a simple show. You've got episode 123.

Hi, I'm Tishawksin writer. And I'm Haley Stewart. And on this show, we break down big ideas.

And in this episode, we are continuing our four-part series on social self-care.

Before we get going, I wanted to let you know about a new e-book that I just launched

called The Literary Medicine Cabinet, a Guide to Self-Care Through Good Books. And it's going to

totally tie into what we're talking about today, which is so crazy. But it's a 35-page e-book

about how to use reading as self-care and recommendations for comfort

reads according to genre, how to create your own individual literary medicine cabinet

that you can draw from during tumultuous times in your life or just when you need a good read.

And then it has printable checklists with blanks for you to

add on more titles of your own. So it was a delight to create, probably the most fun I've had in

making an e-book. So you can find it on my website, carrots from michaelmiss.com slash good hyphen reads.

And I'm going to offer a dollar off during the month of April with the code

simple show. Perfect. And we'll link to that in the show notes. So you can just click over there

and find it. And Haley, you are the perfect person to write that. I mean, you describing that makes

me all giddy thinking, yay, I can't wait to read it. Okay. So, Haley, we're continuing our four-part series on social self-care,

and I'm so excited about this topic, but I can imagine if someone's just like hearing what we're

going to talk about, they can say, what does this have to do with self-care? In fact, when I was

describing it to Kyle this morning, he was like, what? And so I was like, okay, we're going to start with this. We are going to talk about stories

and that good stories lead to good self-care. But that sounds really bizarre. So why don't you

start us off? Tell me a little bit about what your thoughts are on why good stories make really

good self-care.

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