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.

So today we're going to be talking about the concept of being a lost child.

And the reason we have conversations such as this is so that we can discover what has caused us to feel lost within the

self, what has caused and what is the root of this loss of selfhood. If you're like me and so many of my

clients who have come from homes that were emotionally neglectful. I personally came from a home that both my

parents were adult children of alcoholics, I would say struggled with alcohol themselves,

and gambling. And so when addiction is present and you have parents who are unaware that they're unaware,

then there is a disconnect between them and their children.

And if parents are disconnected within themselves and struggle with addiction issues,

this could be a chemical dependency as well as a psychological dependency on another person,

as it is in the case of codependency and dependency disorders. When we have parents who are

struggling with dependencies, they themselves are lost within themselves. And the addiction is masking the anxiety

and the grief and the unresolved, untapped emotions that really do fuel addiction processes.

No one is evil because they have an addiction. No one is bad. The brain is simply trying to cope with enormous emotions. It has never learned to mentally process. And let's face it, when we are talking about strong emotions, we need strong mental processes.

We need equations.

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