The statistics are grim and appalling - women are clearly disadvantaged when it comes to wealth and money. So, the current thinking is that if more women are taught "financial literacy", this can change it. However, the statistics include all women - high school educated to business owners and while some financial literacy is definitely valuable, the root causes of this disparity are not being truly addressed. In this episode, Amee speaks again with one of the world's leading financial psycholog...
Jun 02, 2019•49 min•Season 2Ep. 4
For parents with teens, tweens or kids that will be at some point, this episode is a great one to listen to. Ameé speaks with a favorite repeat guest, Jax Anderson - a Wisconsin-based family therapist that specializes in teenagers. Together, they have a frank (meaning adult words) and super helpful conversation about how to parent teenagers when they are acting their worst. As Ameé mentions in the episode, it's always really easy to parent when things are good and pat yourself on the back for yo...
May 26, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Suzy is a parenting coach as well as a community outreach specialist. After a traumatic experience with her own son years ago, she recognized a need for better understanding how to prepare for the residual effects of the stored trauma and to inform others about it. Following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings , she became active in Newtown’s recovery efforts working as Community Outreach Director for a local non-profit and co-founding the annual, Newtown Yoga Festival. In 2014, she ...
May 19, 2019•52 min•Season 2Ep. 2
For the first time, Amee gets even more personal and shares a few of the details of her life with her own mother, including the "night that broke" her. She also details how she planned on using the time between seasons to talk with her mother about her work and her recovery but a life-changing event between seasons changed everything.
May 12, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 1
This is the last episode of Season 1 and I want to thank all of my listeners who have joined in with the journey over the past 10 months. Today is not just any episode or interview – in fact, really, none of them have been that way but this one is incredibly important and special. On December 17, I was reading what was I believe my third book in a month on narcissism because even though I didn’t see it even then – still trapped in a narcissistic relationship that, as I would discover in the next...
Mar 31, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Ameé brings back on to the show Karine Bell. Karine is a healing mother as well as a somatic experience therapist who hosts a podcast called “Bold as Love.” Karine’s work is aimed directly as mothers who are undertaking the task of healing childhood traumas in themselves so that they can become the powerful parent they have always wanted to be. In this episode, Ameé and Karine talk about the cultural influences over the last century and how the parenting advice our parents and grandparents was d...
Mar 24, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 41
This episode was inspired by a question from a listener who was feeling a bit paralyzed by what is “okay” in terms of teaching her son about boundaries, consent, flirting, etc. in the wake of #MeToo. So, through a series of events, and referrals, it was suggested Mark Greene was THE GUY. Mark is a Senior Editor with The Good Men Project and the author of “The Little #MeToo Book for Men”. Dr. Saliha Bava, a researcher and therapist, co-authored another book with Mark called "The Relational Book f...
Mar 16, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 40
On this episode, Ameé speaks to Joyce McFadden, a psychologist and author of the book “Modern Mothering: What Daughters Say They Need from their Mothers Regarding Sexual Development and Its Impact On Their Self Worth” Joyce has an MSW from Columbia University and five years of postgraduate training in psychoanalysis, she is a faculty member, training analyst and clinical supervisor at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, board member of the National Council on Women’s Health,...
Mar 10, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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 reject looking into...
Mar 03, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In a slight departure from the norm of One Broken Mom, Ameé brings on therapist and fellow podcaster, Ryan Englestead from the show Pop Psych 101 . By day, he’s a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. By night, he’s part of a dynamic duo of podcasters who do a show called Pop Psych 101. A show that dives into the mental wellness (or illness) of characters you know, love and maybe hate on TV, in movies and books. In this episode, Ameé and Ryan talk about the portrayal of characters in movies and T...
Feb 24, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 37
In honor of Rheumatoid Awareness Day , Amee speaks again with Veronique Mead,a family physician and assistant professor who changed careers looking for a better understanding and more effective tools for working with chronic illness. Following their interview in December, Amee applied some of the new information presented and began to see more clearly specific triggers to her disease. In this episode, Dr. Mead talks more deeply about the Cell Danger Response and its possible role in many chronic...
Feb 17, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In this episode, Ameé interviews Dr. Brad Klontz and pulls back the curtain on her own financial past and starts to remove the stigma and shame of talking about money problems and the Big Lie about why even "smart" people do "dumb" things when it comes to their personal finances. Bradley T. Klontz, Psy.D., CFP® is a Founder of the Financial Psychology Institute ® and an Associate Professor of Practice in Financial Psychology at Creighton University Heider College of Business . He is a Managing P...
Feb 10, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 35
What made Amee perk up and get serious about changing herself was reading the scientific information and research that was showing emotions ARE based in science and biology. That they aren’t accidental. They aren’t the luck of the draw. And that we are governed every day by auto pilot functions in our brain while primitive still completely necessary. And that the auto pilot settings were established by not only the quantity of experiences but also the QUALITY of these experiences we had in child...
Feb 03, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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 into, starting the ...
Jan 27, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Andy Grant is the best-selling author of the book " STILL HERE : How to Succeed in Life After Failing At Suicide" as well as an award-winning speaker, Transformational Energy Coach, Akashic Records Reader, and suicide prevention activist. He holds a variety of coaching & psychology certificates and very experienced with leadership programs and energy work modalities. Andy is also the founder of Real Men Feel , a movement encouraging men to come out of the emotional closet. He also facilitate...
Jan 19, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode, Amee interviews a fellow "Broken Mom", Melissa Kreutz. Melissa is a recovering alcoholic who became a mother while on her journey of sobriety. Today, she supports other mothers where ever they are on their own path of recovery through her own blog, Mommy Without Wine , as well as the non-profit organization, Sober Mommies. In this episode, listen as Melissa shares her story of hitting rock bottom as an alcoholic and what its like to be in sobriety in a culture that glorifies alc...
Jan 13, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In another "No Children Required" episode, Amee talks to Ron Hertel, the Program Supervisor for Washington State's "Compassionate Schools" program. Building upon the groundbreaking research from the ACE's study (Adverse Childhood Experiences), educators and researchers are beginning to understand that a child's hardships, traumas or adversities they face at home have significant impacts on the skills they need to be successful in school. In fact, it is being seen that what was previously thought...
Jan 06, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 30
When most people think of addictions, they only think it can be substance abuse, like alcohol or drugs. However, it very common to be addicted to the thrill and excitement one gets from sexual or romantic relationships. And this addiction can be as damaging to a person, their life and their family. Love addiction, which is a "bed fellow" of co-dependency, strikes many people and is not well understood. Listen as Amee interviews Dr. Alexandra Katehakis, a nationally-recognized expert in the field...
Dec 29, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Amee brings Karine Bell, a licensed Somatic Experience therapist, to talk about her work with mothers and how she helps them break the inter-generational chain of trauma. Karine is a somatic educator, embodiment specialist, researcher, anthropologist, contemplative practices practitioner and teacher. This episode introduced the somatic experience modality as a way of treating and healing from the grief, anger, and other stress responses mothers may have if they had an adverse childhood and want ...
Dec 17, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 28
On this episode, Amee speaks with Veronique Mead,a family physician and assistant professor who changed careers looking for a better understanding and more effective tools for working with chronic illness. On her website www.chronicillnessstudies.com , she has collected and shared the abundance of new research showing how adverse life events increase risk for sensitivity to infections, toxins, and other environmental stressors that increase risk and trigger onset of chronic disease. Through shar...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Noted author and therapist, Dr. Lindsay Gibson, is back to talk with Amee 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 environment become the norm and carry through into our adult life. Without developing self-awareness and understanding the types of parents we had and the envir...
Nov 17, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Even before being verbal, a child can sense what he or she needs to do in order to receive the attention they need from their mother. And in the case of a narcissistic family dynamic, it is not unusual that the youngest benefits from watching the negative consequences of their older siblings actions and so they adopt the role of being the "court jester" in order to diffuse the tension in the room. Listen as guest Michelle Piper and Ameé talk about how the Mascot child evolves and what challenges...
Nov 04, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Ameé and Jax Anderson, the "Psykotherapist", tackle the confusing and frustrating realm of the teenage brain. What started as a topic to talk about bringing a reluctant child into therapy evolved into a much larger discussion of what is really going in the brain during the incredibly important years between 12 to 25 years old. This is a must-listen episode for parents of teens who are struggling to understand how to improve their relationships. It is also another eye-opening look at how our own ...
Oct 27, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 24
It's called the "preemptive strike" - that moment when your narcissistic mother or mother-in-law starts making plans for everyone for the holidays - in July - before you have had a chance to think about what you are going to do! Think this is crazy? If you have been involved in a narcissistic family dynamic, then you know that it is a fact of life. You also know that the holidays with a narcissistic parent is draining on you and everyone else, especially if there are children involved. <p>...
Oct 19, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 23
There is little doubt that having your kids involved in a team-oriented activity, whether its band, the debate club or sports, can have a lasting and positive impact on their development, as well as provide critical skills that carry over into adulthood. However, over-zealous parents, abusive coaching, or forcing kids to play can all undermine whatever good you had hoped your child would gain by being an athlete. In fact, sports can be a major source of childhood trauma for kids with long-lastin...
Oct 11, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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 experienced a change ...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Spurred on by (17) suicides in only two years on campus, Colorado State University wanted to do more to take care of the mental wellness needs of their students. Therefore, they reached out to the creators of ManTherapy.org for some help. In this episode, Dr. Nathaan Demers returns to talk with Amee about what parents need to know about their kids and what the mental health challenges are for them once they head off for college. The statistics are sobering but the results of Grit Digital Health'...
Sep 22, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Approximately 14-20% of all women suffer from some sort of perinatal mood disorder. Listen as Amee interviews Ann Smith, President of Postpartum Support International - a US-based organization established to increase awareness about the emotional changes women undergo during and after childbirth. In this episode, you will hear about the common symptoms for PMD, treatments that are available and where and when to get help. http://www.postpartum.net/
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 19
There is no doubt that Pam Leo has changed and affected literally thousands and thousands of lives in her decades of work teaching parents. She is a writer, speaker, educator and like me, an avid reader and learner. Since the explosion of social media, Pam has gained additional "internet fame" with her quote "Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods." Spurred on by this very quote, Amee reached out to Pam Leo to see if she would sit down and talk about how exactly to ...
Aug 24, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This episode features Ayelet Marinovich. She is a pediatric speech-language pathologist, a singer, parent educator, theater person, storyteller, and partner. She is also the author of Understanding Your Baby: A Week-By-Week Development & Activity Guide For Playing With Your Baby From Birth to 12 Months. On this episode, she talks with Amee about activities a parent can do with their baby that supports positive emotional and other developmental milestones. Resources: www.strengthinwords.com...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 17
