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.

Gaslighting is one of the most difficult things that any of us will have to recover from

because gaslighting screws with our head. It screws with our ability to trust ourselves, our own thoughts. It feels like somebody

has tap danced on our mind that they have worn these razors on the bottom of their tap dancing

shoes and they have poked holes in our ability to trust our thoughts, our feelings, our perceptions,

and even our memories. When you have been gaslighted, your reality has been screwed with.

You are dealing with someone who knows that they have to confuse you in order to control you.

You are dealing with someone who is very ill and who will never, most likely never get

well because they don't accept that they're ill.

They live in an altered state of reality where they must remain the puppet masters and you are the victim.

And this is the way they cope with their own stress, with their own unresolved trauma.

And if we are codependent, if we are highly empathic, if we are highly attuned to people,

if we are highly sensitive people, we can get pulled into the lair of someone who lives in this type of a cave in their head.

And we can become trapped. Decades.

We can die in the grips of an abusive gaslighting person.

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