Welcome to Breakdown to Breakthrough, the podcast that empowers you to transform your life

by awakening to your true authentic self. I'm Lisa A. Romano, your host, as an award-winning author

and certified life coach, I've dedicated my life to helping others understand the incredible power

of an organized mind. I believe that true empowerment begins with awakening to our false self.

I created the Conscious Healing Academy, a three-part coaching and brain retraining program designed

to help individuals triumph over trauma and turn the breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs.

My mission is to support you on your journey toward mental and emotional

regeneration through conscious and deliberate awakening. In this podcast, I'll share insights,

tools, and transformative stories that illuminate the path to healing and self-discovery.

So today, we're going to be talking about how childhood trauma will absolutely impede and

affect every area of your life and some of the things that you can do to reverse engineer

this emotional autoimmune disease process.

When we've experienced childhood trauma, especially at the hands of a narcissistic

parent, it's as if our emotional and psychological development gets stuck in time. We may be adults

on the outside, but emotionally and psychologically, we're frozen at the age when we first felt

unsafe. Our perceptions of the world, others, and even ourselves becomes clouded by the lies and the

manipulation we were fed as children.

The narcissist narrative stays lodged in our minds, shaping our beliefs about our worth,

our abilities, and identity.

Until we gain the awareness to challenge that narrative, we continue living as though the story they wrote for us is our own.

Narcissistic abuse arrests our emotional development because it robs us of the opportunity to grow into a self that feels capable, worthy, deserving of love and respect. We're not allowed to form healthy boundaries because in a narcissist world, our boundaries don't matter.

Their needs, their emotions, their wants, and their desires were paramount.

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