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Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs

Codependency and Narcissism: The Paradigm You MUST Escape

Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs

Lisa A. Romano

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8805 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Are you in a relationship with a narcissist and do you feel like you need to walk on eggshells to keep them calm? Do you feel easily controlled due to your caretaking nature? Can you identify codependent traits in you, such as low self worth, negative self talk, feeling shame-based, and needing the approval of others to feel like you are okay, and not going crazy? 

If you are codependent, most often you do not know it. Seeking approval, and worrying more about what others think about you than what you think about you has become a way of life. In childhood, your behavior was tied to your self worth and not your innate worthiness, so today, you subconsciously seek out similar dynamics in which you repeat your childhood patterns of needing others to give you permission to feel worthy. 

The codependent narcissist relationships is similar to two magnets being drawn to one another. One needs and attention and the other feels compelled to abandon their own needs just to pour out their attention onto others in exchange for a sense of self. The codependent is completely governed by faulty childhood programming and can die in this self abandoning paradigm and never awaken. This happens all the time and is why many people on their death beds most regret NOT acting on behalf of the self during their lifetimes rather than worrying about what other people thought about them. 

In this episode, Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach and #1 bestselling author of The Road Back to Me (2012) and creator of the Codependency Recovery Accelerator, The 12 Week Breakthrough Roadmap, helps you to understand codependency as a mindset or paradigm that traps you within its walls all outside of your limited conscious awareness. Her passion for helping adult children from toxic homes, such as those born to alcoholics, narcissists, or the emotionally immature, is rooted in her desire to help others transform their inner wounds into inner strengths. Romano was awarded the title of the #1 Most Influential Person of 2020 due to her deep, uncanny, understanding of codependency and the negative adverse childhood experiences responsible for this life lived from the perception of a lost self. 

She is ready to help you find your true self, and equip you with the mindset training required to breakthrough the veil of illusions that have kept you trapped in codependent narcissistic paradigms. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.8

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

0:10.6

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

0:16.7

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

0:23.2

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

0:28.6

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

0:34.5

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

0:38.6

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

0:44.4

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

0:51.6

Namaste, everybody. My name is Lisei Romano, and today we're going to be talking about the codependent narcissistic paradigm and how you can break through.

0:58.5

So the codependent narcissistic paradigm truly represents the paradigms that you, that were impressed upon you when you're a little one before the age of seven.

1:09.2

Before the age of seven, everybody is in a theta brainwave state.

1:12.4

So that meant mommy and daddy were basically your hypnotists. So the codependent narcissistic dynamic,

1:18.3

the codependent narcissistic dance, your codependency in and of itself as a standalone issue,

1:25.1

personality issue, can be all traced back to childhood.

1:29.3

Now, why is this important to understand?

1:31.1

It's important to understand because paradigms govern your life.

1:34.9

Everything that you think, all of your behavior,

1:38.6

are going to be governed by paradigms.

1:40.7

And that's not a bad thing as long as you awaken.

1:43.6

And if you don't like your current

1:45.4

paradigm, then you commit every day of your life to breaking that paradigm. You have to become so

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