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 I'd like to talk about the struggle we have with intimacy and the effect of

invisible wounds that we don't always recognize as being the cause of why we struggle

with being intimate and open in relationships.

And so this is a really important thing that we need to wrap our mind around if we are ever

going to be truly fulfilled as spiritual and emotional, cognitive human beings.

The ability to show ourselves and reveal ourselves to other people

allows us to experience love in a way that helps us expand and grow. We know that we're social creatures. We know that when we are

bonded with other people, and when we feel loved and accepted and nurtured, and when we know that we can

come to someone that we care about with our boo-boos,

and they will hold the space for us, that that is a beautiful feeling.

In the space of love, we're able to heal in miraculous ways.

In the absence of love, we experience dis-ease.

Many of my clients come from alcoholic backgrounds, emotional neglect, dysfunction, and enmeshment in families.

And many of them, although on the outside, you would think that they have pretty amazing lives.

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