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 after effects of growing up in an alcoholic family.

So I received a letter from a YouTube viewer and I wanted to read it to you and see if we could pull it apart and break it down and hopefully it

might resonate with some people who are listening and some people who need to feel understood

some people who need to feel validated and some people who need to know that there's help.

So the viewer writes, Lisa, I love you.

You have saved my life.

I listen to your videos and your podcast all the time.

I had an alcoholic mother and father.

My family was abandoned by my parents when I was about five years old. My mother

became pregnant then and sent us in a taxi to my aunt's house. We were all separated from then on.

I was abused in all different types of ways by a foster mother. I watched her hold my brother's head underwater

and keep him in the basement of her home. We attended a Catholic school and no one helped us.

We eventually moved in with our mother again and turns out she was highly narcissistic and

extremely abusive.

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