This week, Ameé speaks to Robin Grille, a psychotherapist, author and parent coach based out of Australia who has a new book called Inner Child Journeys: How our Children Grow Us Up and he’s hear to talk about this strategy and guidebook for understanding our own childhood so that we can understand our own children and how to parent OR teach them. "In simple layman's terms, 'Inner Child Journeys' explains a safe, step-by-step method for understanding the emotional reactions t

Today's episode features Kelly Lynch, a domestic violence survivor. After being trapped in her home at knife-point for two and a half hours by her husband, Kelly was able to remove herself from an abusive marriage and start over with an 18-month-old child. But Kelly is also therapist with practice out in Connecticut called Turning Point Wellness who recognized that her own story and experiences as well as being a mental health professional gave her some valuable insights for

"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

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

It’s been one year. The first year in my life since I was 16 years old that I have not been dating or with another person at all. While people’s versions of the events may vary – in order to satisfy a personal narrative, it was early September of 2017 when I gave up trying and changed the status from “In A Relationship” to “Single” which in our day and age, makes it “official.” It’s been one year to lick my wounds – all of them that I have endured as I have been fighting my w

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