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 how some of us make things worse when we're

only trying to make things better. So I thought it was important to create a session around

this idea that has to do with how so many of us tend to make things worse when we're only trying to make things better.

And I think most of us are guilty of this. We think that we're helping out a friend who's in pain.

We think that we're helping out a family member who is going through a rough time.

And we say things that oftentimes derail the conversation because we are uncomfortable with

what they're going through.

Teresa Weissman was a nursing scholar who studied empathy, and I wanted to share the four

qualities of empathy that she outlined that I think are actually brilliant.

Number one is the ability to take in

someone else's perception. Number two is to do so without judgment, zero judgment of what this

person is sharing. Number three is the ability to recognize another person's feeling like you've felt

this feeling before. And number four is the ability to communicate the understanding

of that person's feeling. Brenay Brown discusses empathy as an emotion that has the ability

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