Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

My name is Lisa A. Romano.

I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse.

I am a believer in the power of an organized mind.

My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness, rather

than living a reactive life.

May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope, as you

spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

And so today I'm going to be talking about five ways that you contain your inner critic.

And we have to understand that we have the ability to observe the mind.

All too often we are reactive and we are reacting to the mind.

We are reacting to other people and we are reacting to the mind we are reacting to other

people and we do not understand that our personal power comes from the ability to

observe what we think rather than simply react to what we think and very

oftentimes what we think is not what we think at all it It's what we've been programmed and conditioned to think.

So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to decide to observe rather than react.

We are going to observe our mind and get in the habit of observing our mind.

We are going to come out of reactive mode

literally step in to a different paradigm this is a mind shift dear ones when

you decide to wake up in the morning and to observe what's happening in your mind

rather than react to what's happening in your mind.

This is a complete game changer. When we are suffering from codependency, we are reacting to trauma,

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