Toxic Families: Holiday Edition with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen

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11/24/19 • 44 min

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

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

Previous Episode

The Neuroscience of the Teenage Brain with Jax Anderson

For parents with teens, tweens or kids that will be at some point, this episode is another great one to listen to. Ameé speaks with a favorite repeat guest, Jax Anderson - a Wisconsin-based family therapist that specializes in teenagers.

In this episode, Ameé and Jax talk about the neuroscience of adolescent brain development so that parents (and ever ourselves) can gain a greater understanding of the real biological and neurological changes happening in a tween and teenagers life.

Our parents and their parents don't know what science knows now and that is a very long period of brain architecture and development happens between the ages of 12 until 25 years old! This is completely different than what many had thought about the way the brain forms and also gives us a better understanding of why teenagers act the way they do and what we REALLY need to do to parent them the right way through this period.
Resources
Jax Anderson - The Psyko Therapist on Facebook
The Psyko Therapist Website

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Understanding Loss and Grief with Shelby Forsythia

On this week's episode, Ameé chats with certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Shelby Forsythia, about how to understand and talk about grief.

Shelby is the author of Permission to Grieve and podcast host of Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss. After the unexpected death of her mother in 2013, she became a “student of grief” and set out on a lifetime mission to explore the oft-misunderstood human experience of loss. Through her book, weekly podcasts, and one-on-one grief guidance, she helps grieving people find direction, get support, and cultivate radical self-compassion after devastating loss.

Shelby is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, Reiki Level II Practitioner, and Intuitive Grief Guide. Her work has been featured on Huffington Post, Bustle, and Optimal Living Daily. She currently lives in Chicago.

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