Light Therapy Against Those Winter Blues (Image: Shutterstock)

On this week's ES,  we get some help for our heads as holiday pressures mount. University of Kentucky psychologists Michelle Martel and Matt Southward offer suggestions. 

SOUTHWARD

MARTEL

We make a stop by the Lexington Humane Society to visit with Meghan Hawkins and hear what's happening in the world of the rescue dogs and cats housed at the Society's shelter on Old Frankfort PIke.

HAWKINS

 And while we’re on the subject of dogs (cats will get their chance soon), listen to Tom Martin’s conversation with Kentucky Poet Laureate and novelist Silas House about “Seamus”, the protagonist Beagle in House’s “Lark Ascending”, and the idea that dogs are models and messengers of love.

HOUSE