Hey, welcome back to the Naked Marriage podcast. We are Dave and Ashley Willis and on this podcast, we address the truth about sex, intimacy and lifelong love.

And I'm so excited about today's episode. We have our first ever live studio guest and she is awesome. Ashley, why don't you tell us a little about our guest today?

That's right. We have Dr. Cassie Reed, she's the director of the Master of Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Degree Program at the Kings University.

And she is the founder and director of Cassie Reed Counseling. She has her PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas Women's University.

She's been married for 12 years and has two beautiful daughters. And she has an amazing book that is all about managing the stress of the holidays and how it affects your family.

So you guys are in for a real treat.

Hey Cassie, we are so excited to have you as our first guest and welcome to the podcast, the Naked Marriage podcast. Our very first guest, Ms. Cassie.

No, I'm so glad to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah, and it's such an important topic we're diving into today.

And Cassie gets some great expertise on this.

Yeah. A great book about this that we'll plug later in the podcast.

But we're entering into the holiday crazy time and there's a lot of good that goes with it.

But it amplifies whatever's going on in your life. I feel like so the good things get better.

But the hard thing seemed to get a lot harder and things that were a little bit stressful.

Those family dynamics that were a little bit tense, the financial pressure that was a little bit there.

It just gets blown out of the water sometimes. And so we're going to just have a conversation over the next 25 minutes or so.

Just about how to invite more peace into your marriage, your home, your extended family, this Christmas season.

And yeah, it's something I need. So I'm excited about this conversation.

Let's learn.

So Cassie, how do we do it?

How do we invite more peace and less stress during this chaotic time of year?

Oh, that is a big question.

There's a lot of ways. I think the biggest thing that I find is really allowing the Holy Spirit some room in your holiday.

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