Why do so many people skip the 13th floor? Armand DiMele traces the hidden origins of common superstitions, from the Last Supper to Roman gazing pools, and argues that superstitions often serve those in power by shaping behavior. Callers share family traditions spanning the West Indies, Ireland, and Santeria.
Uncomfortable feelings like jealousy, disgust, and schadenfreude exist because they once helped us survive. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti apply evolutionary psychology to seven “deadly sentiments,” showing how emotions override rational thought to shift behavior instantly in the face of unforeseen threats or losses.
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.
Every human defense strategy has a counterpart in nature. Armand DiMele maps four types of animal mimicry onto everyday human behavior, from gang colors to tomboyism to con artists, then takes a caller whose obsessive cleaning turns out to mask a deeper, unnamed fear.
Some people turn every minor setback into a crisis; others dismiss everything as no big deal. Armand DiMele unpacks both tendencies, tracing catastrophizing to guilt, anxiety, and childhood bids for attention, and trivializing to emotional numbness, arguing that a healthy relationship needs both types in balance.
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.
Worry lives in the future, regret lives in the past, and neither leaves room for now. Armand DiMele argues that most suffering comes from one of these two mental habits, and that being present is not passivity but a kind of willful surrender. Callers share their own struggles to simply stop and arrive.
Stop attacking yourself and start listening. Armand DiMele walks listeners through a step-by-step practice for reaching the instinctual, feeling self he calls the “creature,” using guided relaxation, breath work, and a non-dominant hand writing exercise to open a dialogue between the rational mind and the emotional self.
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.
Most people make decisions by default rather than by design. Armand DiMele and life coach Christine Langerman walk through seven steps for intentional living, using the deceptively simple question of what to have for dinner to reveal how the shadow self, fear of failure, and lost passion quietly shape every choice we make.
