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Finding Your Path with a Heart Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Angela, Gina, Steven, Sue, Vincent
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

What does it mean to live a life that actually fits you? Armand DiMele draws on Carlos Castaneda’s concept of “a path with a heart” to argue that most people lose their authentic selves in childhood and spend adulthood on paths that quietly weaken them. Callers share their own struggles with direction, unfulfilling relationships, and the search for meaning.

Emotional Fitness with Dr. Vivian Wolsk Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Vivian Wolsk
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Most people are not emotionally ill, just emotionally out of shape. Armand DiMele and Dr. Vivian Wolsk, Executive Director of the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, explore emotional fitness, the body’s role in identifying feelings, the empty chair technique, and why negative programming feels so compelling.

Finding What You Really Want with Dale Goldstein Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dale Goldstein
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Getting what you want is impossible when you don’t know who you are. Dale Goldstein, author of “Heart Work,” joins Armand DiMele to walk through his nine-step process for locating buried feelings in the body, grieving unmet childhood needs, and uncovering the authentic self beneath years of numbness and distraction.

Borderline Personality Disorder with Dr. Frank Yeomans Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Frank Yeomans
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Borderline personality disorder turns emotions into a force of nature, and Armand uses Marilyn Monroe as a window into what it feels like to live that way. Dr. Frank Yeomans explains the four core dimensions of BPD, why ordinary therapy often fails these patients, and what genuine recovery looks like beyond mere symptom remission.

The Pain of Growing Up with Lawrence Gonzalez Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Lawrence Gonzalez
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Avoiding pain keeps men stuck in boyhood. Armand DiMele argues that the passage to manhood runs straight through emotional pain, not around it, connecting chronic stress, rage, addiction, and anxiety to a single root: fear of separation. Author Lawrence Gonzalez joins to discuss curiosity and survival.

The Art of Life Coaching Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Christine Ulrich
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Why does desire so rarely move us the way pain does? Armand DiMele and Christine Ulrich, a molecular biologist turned certified life coach, dig into the mechanics of change, exploring how coaches use whole-life assessment, probing questions, and pattern recognition to help clients reach goals they cannot reach alone.

When Parents Are Depressed Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Christine Ulrich
Category: Depression & Mood, Family & Parenting

Parental depression is one of the strongest predictors of childhood anxiety and behavioral disorders, and treating the parent often helps the child more than medicating the child. Armand DiMele and research assistant Christine Ulrich examine the evidence, explain the family-system dynamic, and take calls from adult listeners tracing their struggles back to depressed or absent parents.

Why Men Marry Their Mothers Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Ben Starr, Linda Vanella, Ori Amini Morrison
Category: Family & Parenting, Love & Romantic Relationships

Trauma-induced intimacy disorder shapes who we choose to love. Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, and Ora Yemini-Morrison, LCSW, join Armand to unpack why men unconsciously replicate the mother bond in romantic partnerships, why women do the same with fathers, and how early boundary failures drive fear of commitment, enmeshment, and the mama’s boy pattern across cultures.

Money as Illusion and Drug Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Money functions less as a tool than as a drug and a mirror for inner emptiness. Armand DiMele traces the psychology of wealth from Depression-era frugality to credit-card excess, arguing that arguments about money are always really about love, and that happiness cannot be purchased.

The Search for Significance Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: John Valerio, Lisa Arnone
Category: Depression & Mood, Emotions & Inner Life

Does the drive to be noticed make us miserable, or is feeling significant essential to mental health? Armand DiMele and Lisa Arnone, LCSW, trace the line between healthy agency and egotism, explore how depression strips away a sense of mattering, and ask what we might discover if we stopped trying to be seen.