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Overcoming Performance Anxiety with Natalie H. Rogers June 26, 2013

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Natalie H. Rogers

Category: Anxiety & Fear, Personal Growth & Change

Performance anxiety can freeze you at a job interview, a school meeting, or even walking into a room alone. Natalie H. Rogers, licensed clinical social worker and author of “The New Talk Power,” shares her step-by-step body-based approach: correcting your breathing, developing inner physical awareness, and building concentration so fear stops blocking speech.

Heat Stress and the Body June 20, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele

Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Summer heat does more than make us sweat. Armand DiMele takes calls from listeners struggling with panic attacks, hot flashes, and depression triggered by high temperatures, tracing physical symptoms to hormonal and chemical factors while connecting heat stress to the emotional weight of controlling parents and distant wars.

How Breathing Controls Our Emotions June 14, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Neil Schachter, Roberta Maria Atti

Category: Depression & Mood, Emotions & Inner Life

Shallow breathing is not a flaw but a learned survival tool: we suppress emotions by constricting breath, and chronic shallow breathing can deaden sensation, deepen depression, and fuel psychosomatic illness. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti caution against the easy advice to “just breathe deeper,” explaining why opening the breath can flood the body with overwhelming feeling.

Lung Health with Dr. Neal Schachter Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Neal Schachter

Category: Society, Culture & Current Events, The Mind & Neuroscience

Dr. Neal Schachter, medical director of respiratory care at Mount Sinai Hospital, breaks down how lungs work, why cigarette smoke tops the list of lung enemies, and how the body regulates carbon dioxide. Armand and Schachter also cover asthma, allergies, urban pollution, and the key signs that tell a cold from the flu.