Keyword: loss

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Complicated Grief with Nicole Alston January 4, 2011

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Linda Vanella, Nicole Alston
Category: Grief & Loss, Trauma & Healing

Prolonged grief can quietly hollow out a life for decades. Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, describes her group work helping bereaved parents move a lost child from unconscious suppression into conscious memory. Nicole Alston, LMSW, shares her own stillbirth loss, two-year withdrawal from life, and how that experience led her to found the Sky Foundation and produce a documentary on infant death in the African-American community.

Mothers Remembered and Mourned May 4, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Family & Parenting, Grief & Loss

Mother’s Day triggers some of the deepest and most complicated feelings people carry. Armand DiMele traces the holiday’s activist origins, examines why therapists are trained to watch for crisis around it, and opens the phones to callers sharing tender memories, estrangement, infertility, and the particular ache of becoming an orphan at any age.

How Was Your Year December 31, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Akilah, Alex, Debbie, Joanne, Juana, Lauren Sykes, Lynn, Tony Thomas
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Armand DiMele opens the phones and asks listeners to rate their year on a scale of zero to ten and name three things that shaped it. Callers share stories of job hope, health crises, death, financial collapse, and hard-won perspective, turning the show into a candid collective inventory of 2009.

Getting Older and Becoming Invisible December 23, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Bernard Starr
Category: Aging & Mortality, Love & Romantic Relationships

As people age, they stop being seen as resources and start being overlooked. Armand DiMele and guest Dr. Bernard Starr, PhD, Psychologist, examine how aging strips perceived value in relationships and society, why midlife crisis follows lost potency, and how accepting invisibility may be healthier than fighting it.

The Weight of Caregiving September 9, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: David Travland, Rhonda Travland, Sherri Siegel
Category: Family & Parenting, Grief & Loss

When devotion to a sick partner becomes all-consuming, caregivers lose themselves. Armand DiMele and co-host Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. speak with David Travland and Rhonda Travland, authors of “The Tough and Tender Caregiver,” who each survived years of spousal caregiving and argue that self-care is not selfishness but survival.

Surviving Crisis and Finding Strength with Mark Matusik June 25, 2008

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Mark Matusik
Category: Grief & Loss, Personal Growth & Change

What do you discover about yourself when crisis strips everything away? Author Mark Matusik discusses his book drawing on interviews with Joan Didion, Ram Dass, and others who survived profound loss, illness, and trauma. The recurring insight: real strength only emerges when the fictional version collapses.

Early Onset Alzheimer’s with Pat Moffitt June 5, 2008

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Pat Moffitt
Category: Aging & Mortality, Grief & Loss

A husband’s love story that becomes a caregiving ordeal. Pat Moffitt, author of ‘Ice Cream in the Cupboard,’ recounts his wife Carmen’s early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis at 53, the bewildering behavioral changes that preceded it, and how he learned to face a loss that arrives long before death.

The Rhythm of Life January 29, 2008

Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Rhythm is not just musical but biological, psychological, and relational. Armand DiMele argues that feeling out of rhythm underlies loneliness, anxiety, and even psychosis, weaving together a baby’s in-utero heartbeat, a case study of a schizophrenic patient, and caller stories about grief and disconnection.

A Conversation with Sonny Rollins February 20, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kent Robertshaw, Sonny Rollins
Category: Identity & The Self, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

Legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins talks with Armand and Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, about growing up on Sugar Hill, marching alongside his activist grandmother, the role of artists in social change, and the deep grief of losing his wife of 40 years, Lucille. Music and loss intertwine throughout.

The Ghosts We Keep Alive August 15, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Depression & Mood, Emotions & Inner Life

Why do certain people, places, and memories haunt us long after they’re gone? Armand DiMele argues that ghosts serve a function: they keep us from sinking into depression by giving us a focus outside ourselves. Callers share their own ghost stories, revealing how anger, longing, and comparison all sustain these invisible presences.