5 Specific Ways Narcissistic Parents Abuse Their Children
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, learn about 5 specific forms of abuse caused by narcissistic parents and some of the mental health challenges adult children of narcissistic parents have to face as a result.
Narcissistic parents exploit the emotions, needs, emotions, and inner reality of their children through gaslighting, parentification, and invalidation, to name a few. In this intriguing and empowering episode, Lisa A. Romano, the Breakthrough Life Coach and bestselling author of The Road Back to Me, explains five forms of emotional abuse narcissistic parents use against their children and as a result, cause mental health issues later on in adult life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness |
| 0:24.9 | rather than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope |
| 0:32.8 | as you spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | In today's session, we're going to be talking about five forms of abuse, narcissistic |
| 0:44.3 | parents employ on their children, and five specific outcomes in terms of our mental health |
| 0:50.3 | that result because of this form of abuse. |
| 0:53.3 | A narcissistic parent is someone who lacks empathy for their children, who feels entitled |
| 0:57.0 | to exploit their children. These are people who have a pervasive pattern of having an inability |
| 1:04.0 | to see their children as autonomous and individual beings. If you were raised like I was, you felt |
| 1:10.0 | invisible. You felt like your emotions |
| 1:12.3 | were irrelevant. You felt like you couldn't connect to your parents. And maybe you felt like |
| 1:17.3 | it was your responsibility to make sure that your parents were okay, that they were emotionally |
| 1:22.1 | stable. You might have been raised to feel like it was your responsibility to keep your parents calm. |
| 1:29.1 | And if your parents were narcissistic, they enforce this idea. So they would gaslight you. |
| 1:35.0 | They would tell you that it was your fault. If they were being abusive towards you, they would deny |
| 1:40.4 | that they were being abusive towards you. They would mess with your perception of reality. |
| 1:45.6 | They would want you to be concerned about what they thought and they would challenge your |
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