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Carla Melucci Ardito: Stardust, Sorrow, and the Science of Feeling

Episode 247: Carla Melucci Ardito: Stardust, Sorrow, and the Science of Feeling

Self-taught healer Carla Melucci Ardito joins Norm to talk about trauma, triggers, and why real emotion, not talk therapy alone, is what actually heals us.

Show notes

Norm sits down with Carla Melucci Ardito, a self-taught healer who's spent over 40 years studying trauma, emotion, and the body. They dig into her "dysfunction scale," the difference between real emotion and reactive frustration, how unresolved grief gets passed down through families (and even genetics), and why apologies only heal when they're truly felt. Along the way: her son's move to Paris for a PhD at the Sorbonne, her side gig fronting Brooklyn Bossa Nova, and an impromptu aria from Verdi's Falstaff.

Produced by Norm Magnusson, Jennifer Hammoud, and Matty Rosenberg @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

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