Gaslighting: Word of the Year 2022
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you will learn about the formal definition of gaslighting and why it was chosen as the word of the year for 2022. Gaslighting is a term used to describe intentional deception. Victims of gaslighting eventually develop a dependency upon their abusers after a long time of exposure to this form of psychological abuse. Lisa A. Romano is a codependency and narcissistic abuse expert helping spread awareness about gaslighting.
Lisa's online recovery program gives adult children of alcoholics and/or narcissistic parents the tools they need to recover from the consequences of growing up feeling invisible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness, rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | So today we're going to be talking about something super exciting and I can't wait to share it with you. |
| 0:44.5 | So today I want to share, many of you have probably heard, that gaslighting is Merriam Webster's word of the year for 2022. |
| 0:56.9 | And a shout out to Leon Roberts over at Twitter who sent me this link and made me aware that this has actually happened. I had heard that this |
| 1:03.1 | had taken place, but I hadn't sunk my teeth into it. And it just made me so excited that I wanted |
| 1:09.5 | to share it with this community because I think that this is a real success. |
| 1:14.4 | This means that understanding terms like narcissism and understanding gaslighting are becoming more mainstream. |
| 1:22.3 | And why is that important? |
| 1:23.7 | That's important because it's giving us context. |
| 1:30.6 | It's giving us language to understand what's happening to us. When you are being gaslit and you don't have a term for it, then you end up feeling |
| 1:38.4 | like you're going bananas. And that's not fun. When you are someone who is questioning your reality, it makes you feel |
| 1:47.8 | like you're going insane. And is there anything more frightening than thinking that you can't trust your |
| 1:53.8 | mind? And I want to get into how they are describing the word actually, because I think that that is |
| 1:59.6 | amazing and it gives a lot of context to |
| 2:02.2 | what is really happening here and why it's so important. Because in a world where gaslighting |
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