Welcome to Breakdown to Breakthrough, the podcast that empowers you to transform your life

by awakening to your true authentic self. I'm Lisa A. Romano, your host, as an award-winning author

and certified life coach, I've dedicated my life to helping others understand the incredible

power of an organized mind. I believe that true empowerment begins with awakening to our false self.

I created the Conscious Healing Academy, a three-part coaching and brain retraining program designed

to help individuals triumph over trauma and turn the breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs.

My mission is to support you on your journey toward mental and emotional

regeneration through conscious and deliberate awakening. In this podcast, I'll share insights,

tools, and transformative stories that will illuminate the path to healing and self-discovery.

If you grew up feeling confused, self-doubting, emotionally responsible for other people, or like

something was off in your family, but you could never quite explain why, this session may bring a lot

of clarity to you. Today, we're talking about the common traits of narcissistic parents,

not to label or diagnose anyone, but to finally help the adult child stuck in the system

finally understand what they had to adapt to in order to survive when they were innocent

and dependent upon these caretakers. Because narcissistic parenting doesn't always look abusive.

In fact, it often looks normal. It looks functional and even admirable

sometimes from the outside. But inside the child, something fractures. And if that's you, I want you to hear

this clearly before we go any further. Dear ones, this is so important. What happened to you was not your

fault. And what you're struggling with

now, any of it, is not who you are. It's how you were programmed. Narcissistic parents don't relate

to children as separate developing individuals. They relate to their children as extensions of

themselves, as sources of validation, of sources of emotional regulation, and even control.

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