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 power of letting go and try to dive a little bit

deeper into what it means to let go. So when I think about letting go, I understand that

letting go is essential. I sort of think about hanging go, I understand that letting go is essential.

I sort of think about hanging on to the back of a car bumper when I should let go.

And so many of us cling to experiences and relationships and thoughts and ideas and old beliefs, and never realize that these are actually emotional and psychological and even subconscious attachments.

Letting go means that I am acknowledging that there is some aspect of me, some conscious or maybe subconscious

aspect of me, or maybe even some pattern, some default pattern within me that's causing me

to feel and to think and to believe that it is good for me to stay attached.

It is really never good to stay attached.

It is always good to love people from, you know, a detached place or a place where I don't

lose myself.

So I love the way the author Melody Beattie explains it. It's like wearing a

loose garment. So you know you're in this relationship, but you wear your own coat. You don't wear

your partner's coat. You don't share a coat. You wear your own coat in the relationship.

...