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Childhood Needs in Adult Relationships with Portia Franklin Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Albert Pesso, Diane Boyden Pesso, Ilana Rubenfeld, Portia Franklin
Category: Love & Romantic Relationships, Personal Growth & Change

Unmet childhood needs quietly drive adult relationship failures. Armand and Portia Franklin, a New York psychotherapist trained in the methods of Albert Pesso, Co-founder, Pesso Boyden Therapy, walk through five core needs: place, support, nurturance, protection, and loving limits, and explain how their absence gets re-enacted with partners who can never truly fill them.

The Brain That Changes Itself with Dr. Norman Doidge Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Norman Doidge
Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

The brain is not fixed machinery but a living structure that rewires itself through thought, learning, and practice. Dr. Norman Doidge, author of “The Brain That Changes Itself,” joins Armand DiMele to discuss how neuroplasticity challenges Cartesian mind-body dualism, what brain training can do for age-related cognitive decline, and why mental rehearsal reshapes the brain as powerfully as physical practice.