Step-parenting, or partnering with someone who has children from a previous marriage, can be a landmine to navigate.  Dr. Veronica talks with various authors and experts who offer survival tips.  Russell Cook co-hosts.

Live the life of your dreams, free from regret, worry, and guilt. Now you can eliminate harmful and toxic emotions by making one simple mind change that puts you in harmony with nature. Joining Dr. Veronica is award-winning author David A. Shiang (of The Regret Cure: How To Eliminate Toxic Emotions And Never Regret Again), who presents some logical and elegant solutions to our deepest riddles. Will they cause you to rethink your most fundamental beliefs? Russell Cook co-hosts.

According the National Alliance on Caregiving, over 65 million Americans care for sick, disabled and elderly family members. But the caregivers often suffer in silence, neglecting their own needs, and suffering a high-rate of stress-related illnesses and addictions. Even abuse of the loved one they care for can result if the caregiver's needs continue to go unmet. Dr. Veronica looks at this problem with expert guests who bring different approaches to solving the problem.  Russell Cook co-hosts.

This week, Dr. Veronica presents a quick way to get vital fundamentals in 4 major approaches to natural healing.  Our guests are seasoned practitioners, each specializing in one approach. In this episode, get the expert's overview of:

Ayurveda with Dr. Paul MoreheadAcupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine with Dr. Roy IngeneChiropractic with Dr. Veronica CollingsAchieving Body Balance with Dr. Carolyn Dean

We also compare and contrast the techniques, listing what types of illnesses each is considered especially suited for.  Russell Cook co-hosts.

Reasonable optimism serves us well, lowering stress and anxiety. But studies suggest that people can be foolishly optimistic to the point they shut out negative information. (Example: the teenage girl who thinks she can have unprotected sex without consequences, the person who doesn't save for retirement because "something always works out." Dr. Veronica looks at the line between a bright outlook and foolhardiness with experts on the pursuit of happiness. Russell Cook co-hosts.

Dr. Veronica looks at Bipolar Disorder--once called manic depression--an acute brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels and the ability to carry out everyday tasks. Guests include Andy Behrman (author Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania) who chronicles two decades of treatments from therapy to pharmaceuticals to electro-convulsive shock treatments.  Also: psychotherapist and bipolar specialist Amy Lynn Dvorkin; "America's Behavior Expert" Scot Ferrell (author The Success Guide To Bipolar Disorder); and acupuncturist Tom Ingegno (author You Got Sick. Now What?). Russell Cook co-hosts.

Ah, the insomniac's plight: waking up with a hangover without having had a drop to drink. A poor night's sleep can have you starting your day feeling drained before your feet even hit the floor. Other mornings, you could swear you got a peaceful eight hours, yet your body tells a different story. Roughly 1/3 of the population confront sleeping issues regularly. Dr. Veronica talks with experts to understand sleep and dsleeping disorders, look at underlying causes, and ways to restore a normal, restful sleep pattern. Russell Cook co-hosts.

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) is a holistic healing technique that combines aspects from chiropractic, traditional Chinese medicine. It focuses on balancing the body through releasing negative emotional blocks, toxins, and deificiencies in nutrituion.   Dr. Veronica talks with NET's founder, chiropractor Dr. Scott Walker, who formulated it in the early 1980s, and Dr. Veronica Collings. Russell Cook co-hosts.

Dr. Veronica talks with New York Times journalist Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. The press reports that Going Solo "is causing a sensation." Time Magazine featured it as the #1 Idea That is Changing Your Life in the March 12, 2012 cover story. Vanity Fair called it "trailblazing." Psychology Today called it "so important that it is likely to become both a popular read and a social science classic." The New Yorker argued that the book "suggests that our usual perceptions about life alone get things backward." And the Washington Post explained that "Going Solo is really about living better together--for all of us, single or not." Russell Cook co-hosts.

Hearing voices?  Feeling feelings that have no logical explanation?  Three prominent psychics, or mediums, join Dr. Veronica. John T. "JT" Traficante (author, A Total Reboot From The Soul To The Surface); Charles Peden, who communicates with lost pets and humans, and Joseph M. Higgins, who communicates with patients in comas, on life support, or with advanced Alzheimer's Disease, who cannot express their own wishes to their families.  Russell Cook co-hosts.