Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs

What happens when the very people who are supposed to love, nurture, and protect you are also the source of your deepest emotional wounds? In this powerful episode, Lisa A. Romano, Certified Breakthrough Life Coach and trauma-informed expert in codependency recovery, explores the devastating impact of narcissistic parenting and how it lays the foundation for lifelong codependency. Children of narcissistic parents are often emotionally neglected, manipulated, and made to feel responsible for the moods, needs, and approval of their caregivers. This can set the stage for an adult life of self-abandonment, low self-worth, and an unhealthy need for validation. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🔹 The key traits of narcissistic parents: — Grandiosity, lack of empathy, control, and chronic invalidation 🔹 The emotional toll on children: — Feelings of never being good enough — Suppressed emotional needs — Growing up believing love must be earned through performance 🔹 How this creates the perfect storm for codependency: — Emotional enmeshment and learned helplessness — A compulsion to please, fix, or rescue others — Difficulty identifying one’s own needs or setting boundaries 🔹 Why this toxic cycle is hard to break without trauma-informed support This episode is for you if: ✔️ You grew up with a narcissistic, controlling, or emotionally unavailable parent ✔️ You constantly feel responsible for others’ emotions ✔️ You struggle to say “no” or prioritize your own needs ✔️ You’re tired of repeating painful patterns in your adult relationships Resources Mentioned: 🌱 Begin your recovery journey with Lisa’s 12 Week Breakthrough Coaching Program 👉 https://www.lisaaromano.com/12-wbcp 📚 Learn more about how childhood trauma shapes adult codependency 👉 YouTube Channel – Lisa A. Romano #CodependencyRecovery #NarcissisticParent #ChildhoodTrauma #LisaRomano #ToxicFamily #InnerChildHealing #EmotionalNeglect #SelfAbandonment #12WeekBreakthrough #TraumaInformedHealing

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a one-sided relationship—where you're the fixer, the rescuer, the peacekeeper—this episode is your wake-up call. In this powerful episode, best-selling author and codependency recovery expert Lisa A. Romano uncovers the invisible thread between childhood emotional neglect and codependent behaviors in adulthood. If you: Feel overly responsible for other people’s emotions Stay in toxic relationships hoping things will change Obsess over your partner’s moods Feel like you've lost your sense of self ...you're not broken. You're running survival patterns wired into your nervous system long ago—when love meant self-abandonment, and your feelings didn’t matter. This isn’t your fault. But now that you know, it becomes your power. Lisa explains how codependency is a subconscious trauma response rooted in unmet emotional needs and a lack of safety in childhood. We mistakenly learn that love must be earned through fixing others—especially the ones who hurt us. But this only perpetuates the pain and draws us toward emotionally unavailable or narcissistic partners. In this episode, you’ll discover:  How early childhood trauma wires your brain for codependency  Why rescuing others is a subconscious survival strategy  Why narcissists and toxic partners are drawn to codependents  How to spot the thinking traps of codependency  Actionable steps to reconnect with your authentic self Whether you're healing from a codependent marriage or waking up to your past for the first time, this episode will help you break free from emotional enmeshment and start living from a place of empowerment and emotional clarity. 🌱 Begin your healing journey with Lisa’s step-by-step system: The Groundbreaking 12 Week Breakthrough Coaching Program 👉 https://www.lisaaromano.com/12wbcp 🎓 Want to go at your own pace? Self-Study Version — 50% Off 👉 https://www.lisaaromano.com/12-wbcp   #CodependencyRecovery #ChildhoodTraumaHealing #EmotionalNeglect #FixingPeople #InnerChildHealing #SelfAbandonment #ToxicRelationships #HealingFromNarcissisticAbuse #LisaRomano #CPTSDRecovery #PeoplePleasing #RescueFantasy #TraumaBonding #ConsciousHealing #NeuroscienceBasedHealing #CodependentNoMore

Navigating relationships with narcissistic individuals can lead to emotional turmoil and confusion. It's essential to shift your mindset to maintain sanity while dealing with their manipulative tactics. Discovering the importance of emotional detachment helps in reclaiming your empowerment. The journey of self-discovery and healing plays a crucial role in breaking the cycle of toxic relationships. Understanding your worth and establishing boundaries is vital in avoiding complex trauma and reclaiming your peace of mind.

It's a significant test of emotional and mental resilience when someone you love attacks you through gaslighting, projection, moral superiority, subjective morality, innuendos, and storytelling, all of which downplay their actions and focus entirely on your reaction to their behavior or words. Loving those with high conflict personality means you are investing your emotions, time and energy toward a relationship wish a person who is not as invested as you are. In time, you will notice the one-way nature of the relationship. Through an enormous painful event, if you are lucky and wise, you will let go of those whose false mask, grandiosity, and tremendous insecurity prevent them from taking accountability for how their narcissism affects those who love them. In this podcast episode, you will hear from Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach and Award Winning Author, creator of the 90 Day (12 Week ) Self Love Recovery Breakthrough Program, share how when you speak to a narcissist with certain words, sentences and phrases, you successfully hold onto your energy and prevent them from dragging you onto the dark stage in their minds.  Embark on the path to conscious awakening, emotional healing, and transformation with Lisa's Conscious Healing Academy, which includes a 3-tier coaching system that assists with one's awakening, emotional intelligence, and mental and emotional mastery.  12 Week Breakthrough Program (Level One - The Awakening) 8 Week Master Your Reality (Level 2 -- Deliberate Creating) Soul School - (Level Three -- Ascending Ego) To learn more, contact Lisa and her team members here; Contact Website Spotify Award Winning Books  Facebook Support Group

When it comes to narcissism, there are physical signs that help you spot narcissistic behavior sooner rather than later. Narcissists often reveal their true nature through their eyes—cold, unfeeling, and devoid of empathy. This chilling stare is a red flag, signaling a lack of emotional connection and a potential for manipulation. According to FBI profilers, such individuals prey on those with high empathy, low self-worth, and a strong desire to please. Codependents, in particular, may overlook these warning signs due to blurred boundaries and a history of emotional neglect.​ If you've experienced cognitive dissonance in a toxic relationship, it's crucial to recognize these signs and prioritize your well-being. Understanding the dynamics of narcissistic abuse can empower you to break free from trauma bonds and embark on a healing journey.​ Take the first step towards self-discovery and recovery. Our codependency quiz can help you identify areas needing attention and guide you towards inner healing. ✨ Take my FREE Codependency Quiz 🔗 Quiz If you are codependent, lack a sense of self, struggle to know who you are and generally find your balance in the taking care of others, please know this is not your fault. Codependency is a manifestation of complex trauma, and simply means you are stuck living below the veil, operating through the survival coping mechanisms of your inner child. The miraculous news is, you can heal and live an empowered life, this I promise you! This July 13th, join me for the groundbreaking, proven 90 day roadmap that is helping adult children heal from the cognitive dissonance, low self worth, and dis-contentment in thief lives.  Register early and save $500 with the early bird discount. https://www.lisaaromano.com/12wbcp     

The best way to stop focusing and ruminating about narcissists in your life is to close your eyes and fall in love with the self. Ancient Persian Philosopher Rumi is an excellent example of how to break up with, let go of, divorce, and go no contact with narcissists in your life. In this lesson, you will learn what Rumi has to say about releasing narcissists from your life, and why doing so is terrifying yet brings emotional freedom at the same time. Healing from narcissistic abuse, requires that you release resistance to the pain manipulation, gaslighting, triangulation, smear campaigns and discard have created. Through radical self awareness, and acceptance, we discover the power of sacred wisdom as it pertains to choosing nonresistance. A narcissist will never follow you into solitude. When you embrace solitude, narcissists will run away because in solitude their masks fall. And that's why you must travel into the silence within. Codependency is akin to spiritual death. It implies you are living in denial of what is, and running from reality. The answer lies in climbing the ladder of the mind, from the subconscious to the higher conscious realms. But first, we must figure out where you are now and at what level of awareness do you reside. Feel free to take my FREE Codependency Quiz to discover more. ✨ Take my FREE Codependency Quiz 🔗 https://www.lisaaromano.com   "I know it's painful", Rumi says, yet he says, "Walk this way anyway." That's how I feel about The 12 Week Breakthrough Program.  Let's peel back decades of layers of the subconscious mind and teach you the skills you need to live emotionally free, unbound by the chains of the past. Work with me this July, 2025 Join early and save $500  https://www.lisaaromano.com/12wbcp  📞 Work With Me One to One ✉️ coach@lisaaromano.com  It is not you, it is only your programming. Your higher self is free, but your inner child is stuck. All you need are tools, an experienced guide, and the grit to stick to this healing journey when the going gets tough. Remember, steel is forged through fire, and diamonds appear only when enough force is applied. You can develop a stainless steel spine, and my three-part healing framework helps you achieve unbound emotional freedom. The 12 Week Breakthrough Program The 8 Week Master Class Soul School, a 10 Week Course in the Quantum Science of Love Consciousness. We got this. New to the inner voyage of transformation? No worries, read The Road Back to Me to activate higher consciousness. Follow that up with My Road Beyond the Codependent Divorce, Codependent Now What? Codependency Manifesto, Quantum Tools to Heal Your Life Now and then Loving the Self Affirmations volumes 1 and 2

This discussion unpacks the often-overlooked dangers posed by loved ones, focusing on how parents and step-parents can unwittingly become sources of harm. It sheds light on shocking statistics about childhood abuse and the cyclical nature of trauma. The dynamics between empaths and narcissists reveal the need for clear boundaries in relationships. Stepfamily challenges are explored, urging mindfulness in parenting to break harmful cycles. Ultimately, the conversation aims to foster awareness and promote healthier familial dynamics.

In this podcast, learn about the codependent communication struggles no one talks about. In codependency, the focus is usually on keeping the peace, avoiding conflict, and managing someone else's emotions, at the expense of your own truth. This makes authentic communication feel dangerous, especially if you grew up in a toxic environment where speaking up led to punishment, rejection, or emotional withdrawal. Poor communication is one of the defining features of toxic relationships, especially when one or both partners are codependent. Rather than say what they mean, codependent people tend to hint, people-please, or stuff their emotions down to avoid being abandoned. Over time, this leads to resentment, confusion, and emotional disconnection. Without clear, honest communication, even the strongest connection can break down under the weight of unspoken expectations and unmet needs. Healing from codependency means learning how to communicate with clarity, courage, and compassion. It requires unlearning the belief that your needs don’t matter and developing the inner safety to speak your truth.  Whether you're in recovery from a toxic relationship or just starting to recognize codependent patterns in your life, learning how to communicate effectively is essential if you want to build real intimacy and self-respect. The first step, is telling the truth, and learning to take accountability for poor communication skills, while understanding with self compassion, it could literally be no other way.  Today, if this resonates with you, you have a shot at healing your life by unlearning the survival patterns that kept you feeling safe, that also kept you stuck repeating the faulty patterns from the past. Are you codependent? If so, you probably have an insecure, anxious attachment style, and the good news is, we can fix that!  Calling all serious, ready, willing and able souls who have the time and can invest in themselves at this time to finally take their lives back. 💥 12 Week Breakthrough Codependency Program starts July 13. The first lesson will be delivered to members library on July 13th, and our first live group call will be on Saturday July 19th. It is an honor to help you breakthrough codependency, reparent and heal your inner child and find your authentic self.  🔗 https://www.lisaaromano.com/12wbcp   \

Socrates once said,“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but building the new.” If you've ever wondered how long it might take you to heal from narcissistic abuse, emotional neglect, codependency, or even addiction issues, you're in the right place. When emotionally, financially, and spiritually abused, the amygdala takes over and life can become minuscule. All we can focus on, when being abused, persecuted, judged or gaslit, is the moment. And although this is a sacred design created to help us avoid threat and harm, the human brain can become stuck in fight or flight. In this episode, Lisa A. Romano, a Breakthrough Life Coach, uncovers a simple yet profound mindset shift that can help you heal sooner rather than later. As a survivor of narcissistic abuse and an adult child of two unrecovered, emotionally abusive, and neglectful alcoholic parents, Lisa has relied on self-discovery work focused on healing at the subconscious level, compassionately embracing her inner child every step of the way to become an international advocate for adult children everywhere. Her research and nearly 30 years of self-healing work have established her as a prominent global voice in mental wellness, personal healing, and transformation.  Begin your healing and transformation journey with Lisa's groundbreaking approach, which is grounded in the latest trauma research, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Heal your inner wounds in 12 Weeks of Less: Click here To learn more, contact Lisa and her team members here; Contact Website Spotify Award Winning Books  Facebook Support Group

In this episode, you will explore 10 distinct forms of narcissistic manipulation tactics and the true agenda of a narcissist with whom you must engage, communicate, parent, and resolve issues. Those who display narcissistic traits often do not recognize themselves as narcissists. Instead, they tend to hold on to their grand illusions of themselves or see themselves as the victims of others. When they are up, it is because they believe others see them as the best, smartest, most beautiful, creative or talented. When they are down, that is because they feel victimized by evidence that someone, maybe you, no longer feed into their grand illusions of themselves. Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach, Award winning author, meditation teacher, course creator, and podcast host, is on a mission to awaken those who live below the veil of consciousness, and who are in toxic, enmeshed, codependent, subjugating relationships with those who are either narcissists, or who have high narcissistic traits. As an adult daughter of narcissistic and codependent parents, and as someone who escaped the undertow of a toxic marriage herself, she understands that the first step in healing from a narcissistic relationship is recognizing the signs that you are actually in a narcissistic relationship.  Ready to begin your healing journey?  Embark on the path to conscious awakening, emotional healing, and transformation with Lisa's Conscious Healing Academy, which includes a 3 tier coaching system that assists with one's awakening, emotional intelligence, and mental and emotional mastery.  12 Week Breakthrough Program (Level One - The Awakening) 8 Week Master Your Reality (Level 2 -- Deliberate Creating) Soul School - (Level Three -- Ascending Ego) To learn more, contact Lisa and her team members here; Contact Website Spotify Award Winning Books  Facebook Support Group