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 we're going to be

talking about the need, the absolute need to love yourself when entering into relationships

and why love seems to escape us and why when we chase love, love is often fleeting?

We actually experience rejection, which seems kind of opposite of what we are after, obviously.

If we're chasing love, we want love.

Then why when we chase love?

Why when we approach love in position number two, do we experience rejection?

And so I don't know. If you're like me, you have suffered from codependency, you have struggled with low self-worth, you have struggled

with not feeling good enough, you've lacked self-confidence, perhaps you've struggled with self-doubt.

You just didn't feel like you were worthy enough for a wonderful relationship.

And it may not have been even anything that you were aware of. These thoughts are rooted in the

subconscious mind. And although almost everyone experiences self-doubt and low self-worth at one

point in their life or another, when you come from

a dysfunctional home, and you've come from homes where your parents did not nurture you, they did

not encourage you to express yourself, if you came from a critical home, a perfectionistic home,

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