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Finding Your Voice with Naz Hussaini Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Naz Hussaini, Ora Yemini Morrison, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

The voice as a gateway to the self: Gestalt therapist and musician Naz Hussaini demonstrates live in the studio how sound bypasses words to surface buried emotions. Armand DiMele, Ora Yemini-Morrison LCSW, and Stephanie D’Ambra LCSW all participate, revealing how tone, breath, and resonance expose fear, grief, and joy that language alone cannot reach.

Giving the Gift of Your Time Undated

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

Armand DiMele makes the case that the most meaningful gifts cost nothing but effort and attention. He walks listeners through his homemade gift certificate system, offering examples like cooking a meal, chauffeuring, foot massage, and pledging an hour of undivided listening. The episode also touches on seasonal affective disorder and why holiday cheer often masks depression.

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.

Romance and the Evolution of Courtship Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Love & Romantic Relationships, The Mind & Neuroscience

Why did romance evolve at all? Armand DiMele argues that human courtship rituals grew directly from a biological turning point: females hiding estrus to survive early pregnancies. From firefly flash patterns to candlelight dinners, he traces how that ancient adaptation shaped the whole vocabulary of seduction.

Feeling Connected During the Holidays Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Family & Parenting

Most people yearn for connection but secretly feel separate, and the holidays sharpen that ache. Armand DiMele takes calls from listeners wrestling with family betrayal, enmeshed mothers, and the courage to re-enter the world after long withdrawal, asking whether true connection is even possible in an increasingly individualist culture.

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.

Consistency in Parenting and Love Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Family & Parenting, Love & Romantic Relationships

Research showing that withholding love produces more resentment in children than direct punishment opens a wide conversation about how parental inconsistency shapes romantic life. Armand DiMele takes calls from listeners wrestling with cold mothers, oversharing on dates, and the surprising urge to sabotage genuine love once you finally find it.

Caring for Aging Parents Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Alan White, Stephanie Roth
Category: Aging & Mortality, Family & Parenting

Four generations now routinely coexist, and the adult child’s role shifts dramatically when a parent begins to decline. Armand DiMele and co-host Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, LCSW, together with Alan White, examine how guilt and obligation keep families at arm’s length, what real caregiving looks like, and why spouses of Alzheimer’s patients resist the help they most need.

Criminal Intention and Self Knowledge Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

Most people enter therapy not to change but to get better at what they already do. Armand DiMele introduces the concept of “criminal intention,” the hidden, often dark strategies we developed as children to survive, and shows how recognizing them in love, friendship, and work is the real engine of personal change.

Attunement and Validation with Kevin Heaney Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kevin Heaney
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Being truly heard is something most people rarely experience, argues psychotherapist Kevin Heaney, a specialist in addiction and family therapy. Armand and Kevin unpack how attunement and validation work in therapy and in everyday relationships, why hearing someone’s truth matters even when the story is incomplete, and how therapists can teach couples and families to do the same.