Childood Trauma Makes it Hard to Make Friends as an Adult
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Are you the adult child of a toxic, alcoholic, or narcissist? If so, you may find it hard to make meaningful friendships. If this is the case for you, that is not your fault. Survival strategies created during childhood to keep you safe, may be keeping you stuck and in fear as opposed to taking chances on making new friends.
Childhood trauma, emotional neglect and narcissistic abuse, inhibit our ability to trust others and it also disrupts our ability to trust the self. Making friends is incredibly challenging for adult children of narcissistic and alcoholic parents, because we have been programmed to associate pain, rejection, and abandonment with close relationships. However, it is possible to find your way back to the divine self through inner child recovery work.
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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. |
| 0:38.5 | So today, we're going to be talking about why so many adult children of alcoholics |
| 0:44.1 | and adult children brought up by narcissistic parents or emotionally immature parents, |
| 0:50.2 | parents who essentially gave us the impression that they were indifferent to what was happening |
| 0:55.1 | inside of us, why is it that so many of us as adults have difficult time or have a difficult |
| 1:01.4 | time making friends today? If you are the adult child of an alcoholic or if you grew up in |
| 1:06.7 | an emotionally neglectful home, chances are you might find it difficult to make friends today |
| 1:12.3 | as an adult. |
| 1:13.4 | And there are specific reasons why, and they are all valid. |
| 1:19.0 | When we grow up in homes where life is unpredictable, it is chaotic, and our first experiences |
| 1:25.9 | with love and trust in relationships goes awry due to toxic family dynamics, |
| 1:32.2 | such as having a mother who ignores you or having a mother who treats you with indifference |
| 1:38.6 | or having a narcissistic father who is also an alcoholic and abandons you. |
| 1:43.5 | When you go through some form of |
| 1:45.9 | childhood trauma and let's face it, not all trauma is the big T trauma. Science has proven |
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