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Explore the essence of love as a universal human need, and the difference between love as a feel and love as a need. Host Timothy Regan hunts for the essence of love in the modern artistic form of the love song. What does your favorite love song actually say about love?

Callers share their favorite love songs and poignantly share the memories of love they evoke.

“And did you get

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Host Nancy Kahn talks with ​Regina Shipman about her practice of Mindfulness–the beauty and benefits of Mindfulness in her life, as a woman of color and as a nonprofit professional, and how her practice has helped her respond to challenges across differences. They discuss how practices in Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication support people across differences.

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Host Timothy Regan welcomes fellow counselor and healer Orlando Zuniga to apply the essential balm of empathy to our current painful national struggle to address immigration in the United States. We practice our skills and intentions to understand the humanity of people with different perspectives on immigration, from Mr. Trump himself, to the people Orlando has served, who are living the journey of immigration–searching through untold difficulty for a home to belong in, to be safe, healthy, and free. We slow down and listen as we hear stories and respond to them, so that we can come together to create solutions that honor the needs and values of everyone touched by immigration.

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KPFA is in crisis. A judgment of $1.8 million against our sister station in New York, WBAI, and the Pacifica Foundation has created the possibility that the assets of all Pacifica stations, the buildings and their signals, will be seized. The Pacifica National Board continues to struggle with conflicts that have kept it from taking action as efficiently as many would like to protect KPFA’s assets and keep the station on the air. There have been three shows in the last week about this on A Rude Awakening, Upfront, and Full Circle, filling in our listeners on the details. Talk It Out Radio host Marlena Willis and co-host Timothy Regan share how the tools of mindfulness meditation and Nonviolent Communication might contribute to more ease in finding agreement among board members and thus a greater likelihood that our station can be saved. In the second half of the show we welcome callers to share not so much their opinions but their feelings in relation to this crisis.

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What is a blessing? Host Timothy Regan’s take on it is this: “A blessing is an act or words that amplify the life force, within yourself or anyone else. A blessing acknowledges or names something essential for someone, and brings a wish that this be fulfilled–a wish of loving kindness for the fulfillment of someone’s needs, and the calming and happiness that comes from that. And in the heart of every blessing may be one message: ‘I behold you, I care, and you matter.'”

You have the power to bless yourself and others. If you want to grow this power for a world that needs your blessing, this New Year’s Eve episode of Talk It Out Radio offers much-needed blessings and practice in the art of blessing. Listen if you want to hear callers and host Timothy Regan put their blessings out into the world and share beautiful blessings for who and what matters.

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