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.

I'm here, the Breakthrough Life Coach.

And today we're going to talk about how you can learn to stop worrying about what other people think about you.

We have a fallout with one of our friends.

We think everybody that we know knows that we had a fallout with one of our friends.

We have an issue with our in-laws

and we think everybody's talking about us, in some cases they are. What are you going to do?

And the reality is that people do talk about other people. This is a fact of life. We talk about

other people. What I want to address is the rumination. What I want to address is those of us who struggle with codependency and tend to really, really root ourselves in this idea that we should care about what other people think. Those of us who are unable to move forward and let go because we're so worried about what other people think. Those of us who unconsciously, or maybe consciously, but for me it was very unconscious, I didn't

know that I was seeking other people's validation. I didn't know that I was seeking permission

to feel the way I felt. If I was upset about something, I would go talk to my friends or my

ex-husband or family member and I was really seeking something, I would go talk to my friends or my ex-husband or family

member and I was really seeking like a child permission to feel what I feel.

I didn't know that I had a right to experience my inner reality, hold on to an idea,

believe in it.

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