For some people, loving relationships seem impossible. Our culture has given us many lies about love and intimacy, like the idea that we should be able to find our soulmate or that true love is easy. Unfortunately, many of us also suffer from complex PTSD due to relational trauma and have not seen or been a part of a healthy, secure relationship. So, has your past trauma made you incapable of having a healthy relationship? What if you’ve been abused so severely in childhood or adolescence or adulthood that you wonder if you can trust other people again?

In this podcast episode (final one for Season 4), Ameé speaks with Dr. Frank Anderson, a psychiatrist and brain-based psychotherapist about an innovative way to work with complex PTSD from abuse called Internal Family Systems. This therapy helps heal relational trauma by addressing the parts of yourself who have been hurt and haven’t healed yet. By identifying these parts and listening to their stories, they can begin to let go of old wounds and learn new ways of being in relationships without re-experiencing past traumas.

Resources:
https://www.frankandersonmd.com/

https://catalog.pesi.com/item/transcending-trauma-preorder-80361

Amazon Link: Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems

Links to buy The Fearless Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business

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Visit https://www.ameequiriconi.com/ for more articles about self-help, healing from trauma, leadership, business, and more!

Are you a boundary violator?

If we are not aware of our own boundaries and how we violate them, then it's very easy to be unaware that we're violating other people's boundaries. We may think that what we're doing is helpful or even beneficial for the person whose boundary has been violated but in reality, it can cause more harm than good. In this episode, Ameé talks with professional coach Audrey Holst about raising our self-awareness around whether we unintentionally and regularly violate other people's personal boundaries.

Do we do things because we think we know better? Do we invalidate other people's decisions because we don't understand them? Are we really trying to help others or are still just trying to take away our own discomfort? And if so, why do these things matter anyway - especially when someone else doesn't seem bothered by whatever it is that you've done! In this episode also learn what to do if discover that violating other people’s personal boundaries.

Resources:

https://fortitudeandflow.com/

Links to buy The Fearless Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business

Amazon (Audio, Print, Kindle Versions): https://amzn.to/3daO7nA

Barnes and Noble- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomansGuide

Bookshop- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomanBookshop

Visit https://www.ameequiriconi.com/ for more articles about self-help, healing from trauma, leadership, business, and more!

In this episode, Ameé speaks with Michelle Morkert, a global gender scholar with a Ph.D. in women’s and gender studies and specializations in gender-based violence, militarism, girls' studies, and peace studies. And if you have ever felt like your gender identity is not what society expects it to be, you’re not alone. Michelle has studied the ways that rigid gender norms can cause past and present trauma in our lives. She wants to help people understand how this patriarchal system hurts everyone who is non-conforming to these rules, regardless of how they identify.

Resources:
https://michellemorkert.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemorkert/

Links to buy The Fearless Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business

Amazon (Audio, Print, Kindle Versions): https://amzn.to/3daO7nA

Barnes and Noble- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomansGuide

Bookshop- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomanBookshop

Visit https://www.ameequiriconi.com/ for more articles about self-help, healing from trauma, leadership, business, and more!

Trigger Warning - If are a sexual abuse survivor, this episode may be very triggering.

Are you struggling with how to help your child cope with the abuse they’ve experienced? Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your child was the abuser and not the victim? Dawn Long, an advocate for parents of children who have suffered sexual abuse shares her story on this episode. She talks about her own history of childhood sexual abuse and how her son also went through similar experiences as a small boy when it was discovered he was being abused by a neighborhood child. Unfortunately, as an adult, he was arrested and imprisoned on child pornography charges. This episode discusses the cycle that can occur when one generation is victimized by another, and what changes need to be made in order to prevent this cycle from continuing.

Resources:
www.dawnlongcoach.com
https://www.dawnlongcoach.com/service-page/finding-strength-free-4-week-coaching

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6AE_PfvuUcHThDseXIMJXA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4mbHjqbPwHEYQrbbkDZNPC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourtransformationjourney/
Website: https://www.dawnlongcoach.com
LInkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/dawnlong

This week, Ameé speaks with Dr. Tana M. Session, an award-winning international speaker, best-selling author, and Certified Executive-level Performance Strategist. Her core area of practice is in inclusion & diversity in the workplace and within the roots of that are these things are unconscious or implicit biases. And so, she’s here to teach what these are, how to recognize them, and what we can do to change them or at least keep them from affecting our decisions.

Resources:

https://www.tanamsession.com/
https://tanamsession.mykajabi.com/

Buy the Book, Working While Black: A Woman's Guide to Stop Being the Best Kept Secret

Are you struggling with money? Do you feel like your life is out of control when it comes to money?

In this episode, Ameé speaks with Barbara Huson, the leading authority on women, wealth, and power as well as the author of the book, Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life. She’s a financial therapist and wealth coach who talks about the emotional aspects that prevent people from attaining wealth. They discuss how dysfunction and trauma in our history interfere with our abilities today to break free from underearning.

Barbara also shares her own story of growing up with one of the most famous financial experts as her father, and her personal struggles with financial abuse, and how she broke through her own barriers to become financially successful.

Resources

https://www.barbara-huson.com/

Rewire for Wealth: Three Steps Any Woman Can Take to Program Her Brain for Financial Success

Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life

In this episode, Ameé speaks with mental health advocate turned entrepreneur, Johnny Crowder.

As a suicide/abuse survivor, Johnny spent his formative years searching for resources to help him cope with his mental health conditions, ranging from OCD and bipolar disorder to schizophrenia.

His firsthand experience with mental illness, university-level education in psychology, and contagious positivity combine to fashion a spirit of advocacy and compassion unlike any other.

Through both music and motivational speaking, Crowder's testimony has impacted millions of lives across the globe by de-mystifying taboo psychological principles and sensitive topics with levity and wit.

Today, he is the founder of Cope Notes, a subscription-based texting service that helps people re-train their brains to interrupt their negative thinking patterns. In this episode, Ameé and Johnny talk about his journey as well as the science behind why Cope Notes works to change people’s lives.

Listeners to One Broken Mom get 10% off their subscription to Cope Notes. Use this link to check it out. Or go to https://copenotes.com/ and use the code ONEBROKENMOM

Listen to Johnny's band, Prison on Spotify

Learn more about One Broken Mom as well as Ameé's coaching and consulting services for businesses, entrepreneurs & organizations by heading to https://www.ameequiriconi.com/consulting-and-coaching

In this interview, Ameé speaks with author and podcaster Kerri Hummingbird. Kerri is a Soul Guide and the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama. She inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with authenticity, passion, and purpose that positively impacts others. Her latest published this year is called Love Is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound.

In this episode, she shares her journey and how you can heal your mother wound so that you can have a happy relationship with yourself and others in your life too!

Resources:

https://kerrihummingbird.com/

https://kerrihummingbird.com/play

Links to buy The Fearless Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business

Amazon (Audio, Print, Kindle Versions): https://amzn.to/3daO7nA

Barnes and Noble- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomansGuide

Bookshop- https://bit.ly/FearlessWomanBookshop

Visit https://www.ameequiriconi.com/ for more articles about self-help, healing from trauma, leadership, business, and more!