How to ease the pain of isolation during the holidays

This is a post from KevinMD by by Toni Bernhard, JD . 
Toni Bernhard was a law professor at the University of California—Davis, serving six years as the law school’s dean of students. She is the author of How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers and can be found online at HowToBeSick.com.

I thought this might help people who are having a hard time dealing with the Christmas Season.