One Broken Mom Hosted by Ameé Quiriconi

Ameé has back on the show one of the One Broken Mom listeners' favorites, Lindsay Gibson. Lindsay is the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents and has just published the follow-up book, Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

Lindsay and Ameé have spoken a couple of times about Emotionally Immature Parents – who they are and what its like growing up with them as your own parents. She has really become the expert on identifying and naming the condition of “Emotionally Immature Parents” (EIP) and putting some arms around how their parenting styles create unstable and sometimes chaotic experiences for us during our childhood and into adulthood.

In this episode, you will hear not only practical advice and tools for redefining your relationship with your parents but also for any of the emotionally immature people you run into or have to deal with in life.

In this episode you will also hear:

• What are the characteristics of emotionally immature people
• Do your emotionally immature parents have to be cut off or can you have a relationship with them
• How did growing up with EIP impact our communication styles
• What is differentiation
• How EIP's are hostile
• How EIP's may have made us learn to NOT be assertive
• How growing up with EIP's may lead you to have romantic relationships with emotionally immature people
• Learning how to set boundaries

Resources
Lindsay's Website
Book Links:
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

In this episode, Amee speaks with Dr. Lindsay Gibson, the author of "Adult Children of Emotionally-Immature Parents" about life with this type of parent and what happens to you as an adult. About the Book (From New Harbinger Publications) "If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life." Resources: http://www.drlindsaygibson.com/ http://www.tidewaterwomen.com/insights/well-being Buy The Book: https://amzn.to/2AKFhvG

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 to excel at motherhood.
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There is nothing like the holidays to add the fun to "dysfunctional families", right?
Ameé brings back repeat guest, Dr. Elizabeth Cohen to talk about holidays with toxic family members and also about dispelling the BS behind the idea that you HAVE to spend the holidays with people you choose not to see the rest of the year.
In this episode, you will hear:

• First, deciding yes or no to seeing family over the holidays
• Are there good reasons to NOT let your kids see or spend time with certain family members?
• How to handle shared custody and holidays with kids
• How to prepare for the known problems you expect to encounter
• Religion – how to balance everyone’s beliefs – especially with faiths or agnostic/atheist beliefs
• What to expect during your first holiday you choose to skip out on
• Tips on recovering after the fact

Jenn Taylor is a motivational speaker, parenting coach, author, and podcaster. who lives in Reno, Nevada with her husband and 18 children. That is not a typo. Eighteen children
Jenn has gone through a period of infertility and then seven pregnancies, a miscarriage that nearly killed her, and has 12 years of foster parenting under her belt. She's been divorced, a single mom and experienced life with a blended family. In this episode, you will hear Jenn share amazing story of her triumph over her trauma history that included molestation and abuse.
Also in this episode, you will hear:

• The role her religious background played in her life
• Her struggles with infertility and her miscarriages
• What drew her to having a large family
• Her coaching and speaking services for parents and people interested in fostering

Links:
Jenn's Facebook Page
Jenn's Website
Jenn's Book on Amazon