1.21 Narcissim: The Life of The Lost Child

09/30/18 • 64 min

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 in socio-economic conditions, such as job loss or divorce.

Resources

www.narcissisticmother.com

Co-Dependants Anonymous: http://coda.org/

Resources

www.narcissisticmother.com

Co-Dependants Anonymous: http://coda.org/

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1.20 Understanding Your Kid at College

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's platform, YouAtCollege.com, are encouraging.

https://gritdigitalhealth.com/https://youatcollege.com/https://you.colostate.edu/

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1.22 How to NOT Eff Up Your Child Athlete

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-lasting negative impacts.

Listen to Amee and Jax Anderson, a former Division I basketball player and now therapist specializing in working with teens, talk about how parents DO hurt their kids through sports and how the whole experience can be done positively.

https://www.psykotherapist.com/