Your Heart is Not What You Think It Is: Healing Childhood Trauma Through Intention
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Did you grow up in a home where emotional truth wasn't safe?
Were you raised by an alcoholic or narcissistic parent, or in a family where compliance mattered more than authenticity?
Many adult children from dysfunctional homes learn at a subconscious level that it's safer to stay quiet, suppress feelings, and abandon themselves than to risk conflict, punishment, or abandonment. Over time, this conditioning leads to survival patterns like codependency, people-pleasing, fawning, and chronic self-doubt.
In this episode, Lisa A. Romano explores the transformative power of the heart. While often thought of as a mechanical pump, the heart is one unified muscle that moves like a vortex. When we live in fear or chronic stress, the heart contracts—wringing out peace, self-love, harmony, and creativity.
Healing begins when we take our power back by shifting attention away from external chaos and returning to the heart space. Presence softens contraction. Safety restores flow. And love expands when we stop living in survival mode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakdown to Breakthrough, the podcast that empowers you to transform your life |
| 0:04.8 | by awakening to your true authentic self. I'm Lisa A. Romano, your host, as an award-winning author |
| 0:10.6 | and certified life coach, I've dedicated my life to helping others understand the incredible |
| 0:16.0 | power of an organized mind. I believe that true empowerment begins with awakening to our false self. |
| 0:23.2 | I created the Conscious Healing Academy, a three-part coaching and brain retraining program designed |
| 0:28.6 | to help individuals triumph over trauma and turn the breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs. |
| 0:34.5 | My mission is to support you on your journey toward mental and emotional |
| 0:38.6 | regeneration through conscious and deliberate awakening. In this podcast, I'll share insights, |
| 0:44.5 | tools, and transformative stories that illuminate the path to healing and self-discovery. |
| 0:50.5 | Today I want to explain something that I think is pretty profound. Those of you who, like me, |
| 0:57.7 | just feel yourself being pulled and drawn to self-understanding, looking within, trying to make |
| 1:05.3 | sense of our emotions. There are just some of us that are born this way. And we know that because we can come from |
| 1:15.1 | families where no one is introspective, where mothers and fathers or even siblings think that |
| 1:23.6 | looking within is a bunch of hogwash. My dad used to say, that's a bunch of psychological |
| 1:29.9 | mumbo, jumbo, Lisa. Don't listen to any of it. And it was a long time, maybe close to 40, |
| 1:38.2 | 35, 40, where I realized my father quit high school and that maybe he wasn't the smartest person in the world. |
| 1:47.3 | And maybe I should consider something outside of what he has downloaded me to believe. |
| 1:55.3 | And that is one of the reasons it was so difficult for me when I was struggling the most to go into therapy, to ask for help. |
| 2:05.3 | Because when you grow up with adult children of alcoholics or parents, and I think both my |
| 2:11.1 | parents were probably dry alcoholics, what happens is they grow up with the no talk, no feel rule. You're not allowed to feel. You're not |
| 2:21.5 | allowed to talk. It's not safe to think. It's not safe to feel. And so, yeah, that's the way they |
| 2:28.0 | grow up. And that's really what they believe. And it's very sad. But what they don't realize is that that's wrong. |
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