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.

Today we're talking about the number one thing that you need to remember to disarm a

narcissist when they start giving you the silent treatment. Now, narcissists need to dominate

and control other people, right? That's all been established. And one of the things that a

narcissist will do when they start to lose control over you is they will give you the silent treatment.

Now, the silent treatment is designed to do one thing, and that is to trigger your abandonment wounds.

If you are somebody who struggles with codependency, you also struggle with C-P-T-SD. You have struggled with

feeling abandoned in childhood. Even if your parents tell you you were never abandoned and even if

your siblings argue with you, you will have felt growing up abandoned and rejected. And most

of us struggle with some sense of rejection. I don't know too many people who grew up feeling completely loved and completely understood.

I think most of us struggle with this sense of abandonment.

Because, you know, moving out on your own and becoming a full autonomous human being, that is not easy to do.

You know, we come into this world expecting to bond to, we should bond with our family and specifically our parents, the people who gave birth to us.

And in families, we're supposed to bond, right? And so when we are born into families where this

bonding has been corrupted or it will come from like

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