Therapy can release old wounds, but can it bring you fully alive? Psychiatrist-turned-retreat-leader Dieter Middleston Scheid and his partner Baccha Schwartz describe their immersive silent retreats in Italy, where open sensory attention, slow-motion movement, and ten days without speech help participants rediscover a wordless inner home.
Noise is everywhere, but what does silence actually mean? Author George Prochnik joins Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. to explore how mechanical noise damages us cognitively and physically, why people fill quiet with sound out of fear, and how the pursuit of genuine silence can expand attention and deepen connection.
Therapy helps, but does it free us? Psychiatrist-turned-mindfulness-teacher Dieter Middleston-Scheidt and Batya Schwartz describe leaving biographical therapy behind to build a retreat practice rooted in silence, open sensory attention, and slow motion as a path to direct aliveness.
Is constant digital connectivity replacing real human contact? Armand DiMele sits down with a 17-year-old student, his tech-savvy cousin Giullian Gioiello, and therapist Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW to examine how Facebook, texting, and smartphones are reshaping how young people relate, feel lonely, and find (or lose) silence.
Diana Winstead spent a year as a shaved-head, robed Buddhist nun in Burma, meditating in near-total silence. Armand DiMele draws out what she learned about sexuality, surrender, and selfhood by removing almost everything modern life is built on, and what happened when she returned.
