Yeah, it seems weird to say storytelling is part of self-care, much less social self-care — but hear us out. Haley and I talk about why infusing our lives with good stories makes us better people, and therefore, better members of society.

Stories inform our moral imagination, a place to hang wisdom and complicated ideas, and teach us what collectively matters to us: we’re designed to learn, love, and carry stories with us.

Notes From This Episode:

• Social Self-Care, Part 1
• Social Self-Care, Part 2
• Follow The Simple Show on Instagram
• Haleys blog, Carrots for Michaelmas
• Haley on Instagram and Twitter
• Tsh on Instagram and Twitter
• Haley’s new ebook, The Literary Medicine Cabinet: A Guide to Self-Care Through Good Books (Get $1 off with code SIMPLESHOW)
• Brideshead Revisited
• Mad Men
• Need to Know
• Dark Matter (plus the episode where I talk about this book)
• Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
• Middlemarch
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
• The WRLD at Home: coming soon!
• Our previous episode on longform
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