Keyword: anger

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Healing Emotions with Cindy Brielotta Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Cindy Brielotta
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Trauma & Healing

Hypnotherapist Cindy Brielotta walks Armand DiMele through the five-phase process she uses to locate and release buried emotions. The conversation covers why suppressed feelings drain energy and drive overreaction, how hypnotic age regression traces emotions back to their earliest source, and why forgiving an offender is ultimately an act of self-liberation.

Dealing With Someone Else’s Anger Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Communication & Conflict, Emotions & Inner Life

When someone you love or work with takes their anger out on you unfairly, what do you actually do? Armand DiMele walks through the spectrum of responses, from fighting back to showing genuine hurt, and argues that expressing pain rather than matching anger is both more natural and more disarming. Callers explore grief-fueled resentment and chronic irritability at home.

Emotional Manipulation and Trolling Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Thelma Wingate
Category: Communication & Conflict, Emotions & Inner Life

Why are emotionally open people such easy targets? Armand traces the roots of emotional manipulation from childhood repression to adolescent psychopathy, then lands on internet trolling as its modern form, confessing he was once trolled on his own website without realizing it. The episode connects online provocation to everyday relationship dynamics.

Seven Steps for Better Communication in Relationships Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Communication & Conflict, Love & Romantic Relationships

Blame, defensiveness, and stonewalling quietly destroy relationships. Armand DiMele lays out seven practical communication guidelines, from expecting defensiveness when starting hard conversations to replacing accusatory “you” statements with “I” language, with research on attraction and partner selection woven throughout.

Toxic Desires and Compulsion Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Emotions & Inner Life

What makes a desire toxic? Armand DiMele takes listener calls to explore how ordinary wants become compulsions, tracing the fears and suppressed anger underneath behaviors like compulsive exercise, procrastination, and the need to be desired. Co-host Deborah Hillman joins throughout.

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.

When Someone Blames You for No Reason Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Communication & Conflict, Emotions & Inner Life

Armand DiMele maps out what to do when someone you care about lashes out unfairly. Rather than fighting back, he argues for showing genuine hurt, explaining why tears disarm anger more effectively than counter-attack, and why most rage burns itself out in about 22 minutes if you stop feeding it.

Finding Someone Strong Enough to Hold You Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Barbara Jessen, Carolee, Dr. Scott Baum, Keith, Leora, Sippy
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Family & Parenting

Why do so many people seek partners or authority figures who can overpower their worst impulses? Armand DiMele builds on earlier research by Scott Baum about fathers and invisible male roles to explore how unresolved inner rage drives partner choice, avoidance of intimacy, and the surprising relief some people find in external discipline.

Fear and Finance in the Recession Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Anxiety & Fear, Emotions & Inner Life

Money worries are keeping people awake, but Armand DiMele argues the fear of recession often hurts more than the recession itself. Through live calls, he explores how financial loss strips away the external props people rely on for self-worth, and why giving to others can break the paralysis of unemployment and drift.

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.