"This is one of the most raw, honest, incredibly vulnerable interviews I’ve ever done. Being a Mom isn’t always a happy thing and Ameé tells us why she felt that way, how she really felt, what she did about it and how she moves forward within it. Her goal is to spread awareness through honest & accessible conversations with experts as well as share stories from other Broken Moms. The evidence is in the science (real biology & neuroscience) that our childhood experiences are

Back on One Broken Mom is Michelle Piper. Michelle is a Marriage and Family Therapist based out of San Diego. She has both a personal and professional interest in the adult children of narcissistic mothers. And has a website www.narcissisticmother.com where she provides valuable resources for survivors of narcissistic abuse. We’ve talked about the Narcissistic Mother as a type of Broken Mom and then drilled down into the different family roles the children end up being forced

"This week’s guest, for Bold Moves Podcast Episode 221 Ameé Quiriconi has made some bold moves! After a rough breakup, Ameé let herself fall to rock bottom so she could figure out what the eff was really going on in her head.  Ameé found her mission, to walk along a road of recovery, a few steps ahead of other people, and shine a light ahead of everyone so that we can all have a better life, and help a few parents recognize their own deficiencies that they are passing d

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

Living in a narcissistic family system means that you likely had a role placed on you by your narcissistic parent. The roles can be projected by the narcissist onto one sibling then the next and the roles can last for moments or years.  Or, depending on circumstances, the roles may have been switched around. In any case, this role has carried on with you throughout your life and has influenced you in ways you may not have ever known. It's likely shaped your business relations

When I was growing up, I didn’t want kids. In fact, I still remember a particular conversation in high school with my mother and grandmother discussing this very matter. I was going to college to get a degree and “be someone” and I didn’t see a future or reason for me to bring kids into the world. This was the late 1980’s and there was still the frost of the Cold War in the air and so my mom thought it was altruistic of me to be considerate of not bringing children into a wor