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 emotional baggage left over by toxic relationships

and some of the things that you can do to get past it. So emotional baggage, it sounds

pretty horrible to think that so many of us could be carrying around emotional baggage.

It makes us feel like we're damaged goods.

But the reality is we're not damaged goods at all.

We're human.

And when we have a painful experience and that experience is unresolved emotionally and psychologically,

then yeah, we carry the scar of that experience. And I have found in my own life that emotional baggage that I continued

to repress and suppress and deny and not look at for a plethora of reasons only made these emotional, only made this emotional

baggage even heavier. So if you think about emotional baggage as luggage, luggage that you're

carrying around from relationship to relationship. I've also found that unresolved childhood trauma will surface inside interpersonal relationship. I've also found that unresolved childhood trauma will surface inside

interpersonal relationships that I have as an adult. And if I'm not careful about my

patterns, if I'm not careful about my fears, if I don't observe what I observe or witness what I

witness in the mental field, every once in a while,

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