So here it is... mid December - the most wonderful time of the year, but we see more people frazzled and stressed and anything but jolly - anything but excited about the holidays. If you go online and search for ways to get into the spirit, you’ll find lots of tips like “bake cookies” or “organize an ugly sweater party”, but man, we need a lot more than that, so how can we get into the holiday spirit?

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If we could know what people really think about us, would we want to know? A knee-jerk response might be, “absolutely I want to know!”, but if the feedback isn’t good, then it may mean that I have to change something about myself.

Joining us this week is a very special guest host, Dr. Tanie Miller Kabala. Dr Kabala is a speaker, author and practicing clinical psychologist. In addition to her private practice at the West Chester Wellness Center in West Chester, PA, Tanie is the author of The Weight Loss Surgery Coping Companion as well as an album of meditations and relaxations entitled, Rest and Restore, which is available on iTunes, Amazon, the App Store, and Google Play. Check her out! She is awesome!

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What is love? We’ve talked a lot about love on this show - we’ve referenced it, said things depend on it, and had whole shows about it (last season's Can you love everyone?), but we never talked before about what it is. Should be an easy answer, right? Hmm. Maybe not.

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What are you afraid of? Maybe you're afraid of being fired, or of not being good enough or that maybe you'll be forced to change something. Maybe you're afraid to die. How much does fear in your life drive your decisions? If you wanted to, could you stop it?

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What if you came across a magic lamp and were granted three wishes? What would you wish for? Would you wish for a million dollars? (maybe a little selfish?) Would you wish to cure cancer? Well if you do, then what about all of the other diseases (there are a lot more of them out there than 3 wishes can cover). What would you wish for?

Do we control our lives, or does life control us? Work or school is insanely busy, our kids gets sick, traffic is bad so we run late, and all the while, our email inboxes grow and grow. If we could just get ahead of it all, then everything might seem OK - we could finally find some peace….so how can we do it?

What makes a true friend? How does it happen, and what does it mean? How can we be better friends to the people in our own lives?

Mondays are the worst, but Fridays are awesome. Saturday is even better. Why? What is so different about Monday that it becomes almost a universally dreaded day. In fact, Monday is so horrible, that for many of us, we start hating it while it is still Sunday - we call it the Sunday Blues. Now, your mind is probably conjuring up very real and obvious answers to this obvious question, but the thing is ..we’re not OK with it, so we’re going to dive in and figure out how to make it stop. We want to love Mondays just as much as any other day, regardless of our jobs.

How we can keep connected with our teenage children during a period when they may not want to be connected anymore?

In this life, nothing ventured is nothing gained, right? If you’re going to really live a life, then you have to ante-up - you have to put something at stake, so what’s something that everyone should risk?