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 illuminate the path to healing and self-discovery. So codependency is described as a loss of selfhood.

When you are struggling with codependency, you oftentimes focus on the needs of other people.

And this is a very human experience. When we see people

are in pain or we know that a loved one is struggling, it's very natural when someone we love

is hurting to want to do something to mitigate the pain that they're in. The problem with

codependency is that when we are struggling with codependency and the root causes of codependency, we lose ourselves in helping other people.

We see other people struggling and we lose the boundary to self.

We end up enabling situations.

We end up denying our needs in situations. And we end up being like puppets

on the string. We end up feeling like passengers in other people's lives. And we don't even

realize that we're entering into relationships without a healthy foundation for self. We really don't

answer the question and we don't have the answer to the

question, who am I? What do I think? What do I feel? And what do I need? We do, however,

know what other people think. We know what other people need. But if you're codependent,

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