Keyword: caretaking

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The Instinct to Protect August 10, 2011

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Joseph, Linda Vanella, Lynn, Tom Bond, Yvonne
Category: Anxiety & Fear, Emotions & Inner Life

Protecting others often masks an inability to protect ourselves. Armand DiMele and Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, unpack the Enneagram’s three instinctual drives (self-preservation, social, and sexual) as frameworks for understanding why we over-give, and callers share vivid stories of caretaking that costs them.

Growing Up with a Troubled Parent September 10, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Family & Parenting, Trauma & Healing

Children raised by mentally ill or incapacitated parents face invisible burdens that quietly shape their adult choices. Armand DiMele draws on the double bind theory, a case of psychosomatic snow blindness, and research on children of psychotic parents to show how early caretaking roles become lifelong patterns.

How Power Corrupts and Controls November 8, 2005

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Power is neither good nor bad, but how we wield it reveals our deepest wounds. Armand DiMele maps the many faces of power, from fear-based authority and birth-order dynamics to the narcissistic traits of those who dominate others, and asks how we make peace with our own hunger for it.