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.

Namaste, everybody.

So in this session, I'm going to attempt to help you understand why the way a narcissist thinks is illogical and nonsensical.

If you have been a victim of narcissistic abuse, you are someone that understands what it is to deal with someone who has low empathy, to deal with someone who exploits your emotions, to deal with someone who believes that they are entitled to do things that other people don't have the right to do.

So rules don't apply to someone who has high narcissistic traits.

I think it's also important that we recognize that narcissism exists on a spectrum, as does

things like codependency. So while it is, I think, smart to assess whether or not even ourselves,

whether or not we have high narcissistic traits as

well as other people, I think it's important that we recognize that narcissism does in fact

exist on a spectrum and that narcissists by nature don't change. So you could be someone who

even yourself is dealing with some narcissistic traits, but

once you recognize it in yourself and you say, oh, I don't want to have those traits, I don't like

those particular character flaws in myself, I'd like to change them, then you are less

narcissistic than someone who doesn't think there's anything wrong with them,

which is a nonsensical reality.

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