10 Disturbing Ways Narcissists Control You Via Manipulation Tactics
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakdown to Breakthrough, the podcast that empowers you to transform your life |
| 0:04.8 | by awakening to your true authentic self. I'm Lisa A. Romano, your host, as an award-winning author |
| 0:10.6 | and certified life coach, I've dedicated my life to helping others understand the incredible |
| 0:16.0 | power of an organized mind. I believe that true empowerment begins with awakening to our false self. |
| 0:23.2 | I created the Conscious Healing Academy, a three-part coaching and brain retraining program designed |
| 0:28.6 | to help individuals triumph over trauma and turn the breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs. |
| 0:34.5 | My mission is to support you on your journey toward mental and emotional |
| 0:38.6 | regeneration through conscious and deliberate awakening. In this podcast, I'll share insights, |
| 0:44.5 | tools, and transformative stories that will illuminate the path to healing and self-discovery. |
| 0:50.2 | A narcissist will absolutely work to derail conversations. A narcissist will rely on gaslighting to confuse you and get you to doubt your reality. |
| 0:58.6 | A narcissist will play the victim, hoping that you will feel sorry for them and never hold them accountable. |
| 1:04.0 | I didn't know what narcissism was. |
| 1:05.9 | I didn't even know what codependency was when I was in my first toxic marriage. |
| 1:09.9 | And thankfully, I'm in a very healthy |
| 1:11.2 | marriage these days. But that first go-around was super confusing. I spent 12 years scratching my head |
| 1:18.0 | thinking that it was me. There was something wrong with me. I just wasn't understanding him |
| 1:22.8 | enough. I just wasn't giving him enough clarity. And when I looked around the room, everybody loved him. |
| 1:28.8 | And I really believe if you met my ex today, you would probably like him too. So it was super |
| 1:33.7 | confusing. So I never understood what was really going on. I didn't understand that I was being |
| 1:38.3 | mentally and emotionally, spiritually manipulated. I really did think there was something wrong with me. I was broken and there was |
| 1:46.2 | just something so negative about me that all I could see was the negative in him. And that was a |
| 1:51.6 | narrative that I grew up with. I grew up with a verbally abusive mother who called me selfish, |
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