Human Connection in an AI World: Healing Loneliness, Fear, and Finding Balance in 2026

As 2026 begins, many are feeling fear, isolation, and uncertainty—driven by rapid technological change, artificial intelligence, and lingering effects of the pandemic. In this powerful episode of Strategies for Living, Dr. David McMillian and Lauren Leon McMillian are joined by life strategist Dr. Stacie Slabaugh of the Balanced Life Wellness Center for an honest conversation about AI, mental health, social anxiety, and the growing loneliness epidemic.Together, they explore how technology can be both a tool and a trap, why human connection is essential for emotional and physical well-being, and how practices like biofield tuning, energy work, and embodied healing can help us reconnect—to ourselves, to others, and to the divine within. This episode offers grounded hope, practical wisdom, and a reminder that love, presence, and community are still the medicine our world needs most.Find Stacie at www.thebalancedlife.usOriginal Airdate: 1/22/2026