Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics Growing Up Invisible
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
When you are the adult child of an alcoholic, unfortunately, you are forced to live inside a family system that is rooted in denial. The children's problems in a home wrought with addiction go ignored. One of the major stumbling blocks for adult children of alcoholics is denial. Adult children of alcoholics become approval seekers, people-pleasers, enablers, fixers, and doers, and quickly take on codependent traits within interpersonal relationships. We are those who enter into relationships without a strong sense of self and assume total responsibility for the outcomes of relationships. Our childhood homes were chaotic, and as adults, we seek control by controlling our emotions, never asking for help, and always waiting for the next shoe to drop. In this episode, Lisa speaks to those who struggled with alcoholic parents and never understood how much our childhoods impacted us. Lisa A. Romano is a Breakthrough Life Coach and codependency and narcissistic abuse recovery expert.
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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, rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope, as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | So today we're going to be talking about some of the characteristics of being the adult |
| 0:43.3 | child of an alcoholic and why you should care. |
| 0:46.0 | So thank you for being here. |
| 0:47.1 | Thank you for learning. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you for growing. |
| 0:49.2 | And thank you for wanting to open up your mind and learning more about you and how your |
| 0:54.1 | childhood may have |
| 0:55.2 | affected you in ways that you never realized. If you were like me, you were walking around |
| 1:00.5 | on planet Earth, maybe struggling with anxiety, maybe struggling with depression, maybe in a |
| 1:06.9 | dysfunctional marriage, maybe struggling as a mom or a dad with how to set boundaries, |
| 1:13.5 | maybe struggling in one negative relationship after the other, maybe struggling in a toxic |
| 1:20.0 | family situation and unhappy at work and not knowing what the heck, how to be happy. |
| 1:27.2 | And how many of us are walking around |
| 1:29.1 | on planet Earth this way every day and we aren't looking within. And I know that that was my |
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