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The Big Fear with Lindsay Gibson

Ever felt like you are too scared to do something? Or have you ever found yourself unable to enjoy success or good luck because you are expecting the other shoe to drop? You are experiencing a normal reaction to pushing yourself past your normal limits. And if you have experienced or grown up with trauma or emotionally neglectful and immature parents, it's likely you have even fears of dying or a foreshortened future. This episode is another conversation with best-selling aut

Co-Parenting with a Narcissist with Wendy Behary

Back on One Broken Mom is a listener favorite, Wendy Behary. Wendy is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC and DC. She is also the author of “Disarming the Narcissist…Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed” (New Harbinger Publications). Now translated in 15 languages. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. Based on a listener question,

Gaslighting at Work with Dr. Stephanie Sarkis

How many of you out there have ever had to deal with a co-worker or boss who has said things to you that have made you doubt yourself and wonder if you’re not going a little crazy because they are pretty convinced that the “real world” is very different from the one you are seeing or experiencing. For example, are they charming with everyone else, but controlling and demeaning towards you? Or do you have a co-worker constantly taking credit for your hard work? Do you have a b

Parent-Child Enmeshment with Dr. Margaret Rutherford

In the season finale, Ameé welcomes to the show Dr. Margaret Rutherford. She has been a psychologist in private practice for over twenty-five years. She hosts a podcast called SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford and in November of 2019, published her book Perfectly Hidden Depression: How to Break Free from the Perfectionism that Masks Your Depression. Due to messages from many listeners as well as having a front row seat to the dynamic of enmeshment, Ameé is tackling the to

Aftermath: Surviving a Psychopath

Today, Ameé revisits the topic of psychopathy with Dr. Dave Kossen. Dr. Kosson is a Professor of Psychology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. His research focuses on the cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, and developmental mechanisms underlying psychopathy. He is also the President-Elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. He founded the Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation in 2006 and has served as its first President. In t

How To Cut Ties With Toxic Family with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen

Many of you are here to listen to One Broken Mom because you identify with the fact that you may have a complicated childhood and family of origin history. And what you are presently addressing in your life can be just your own healing and self-development or it can be in combination with parenting you own children if you have them. Some of us in life, despite the challenges or adversities we’ve experienced, are able to maintain some degree of connection with our family and s

How the Brain Changes in a Relationship with a Narcissist with Dr. Rhonda Freeman

Dr. Freeman is a clinical neuropsychologist based out of Florida. She works with patients diagnosed with many types of neurological conditions including dementia and Alzheimer's. She also writes for Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and Aftermath Surviving Psychopathy. Amee was originally introduced to her and her work because of an article Rhonda had written called 6 Obstacles to a Relationship With a Psychopath that Amee's therapist shared with her in order to help her und

Understanding Childhood Emotional Neglect

This week's episode features Dr. Jonice Webb. She is the author of the best-selling book Running on Empty: Overcome your Childhood Emotional Neglect. And has just published a follow-up to the book Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children. Because like many people out there – when you use words like trauma and neglect – they feel too strong to describe what was, yes, a challenging childhood, and so it is easy to

1.26 Adult Children of Emotionally-Immature Parents

Noted author of the book the best selling book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents," Dr. Lindsay Gibson, is back to talk with Ameé about life as an adult who had emotionally-immature parents. When a child is in an environment that is leaving them starved of the emotional connections they need to develop properly, they find ways to survive. However, these survival mechanisms or adaptions to the environ

1.21 Narcissim: The Life of The Lost Child

Family therapist and coach, Michelle Piper is back to continue to discuss the narcissistic family and the roles children and adults take on for survival. In this episode, Michelle explains the role of the Lost Child to Amee and how a person may have been in this role on a long-term or even temporary basis from time to time. This is a great episode for developing some self-awareness around your own family, especially if there was any form of addiction involved or your family e

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