Raised by a Vulnerable Narcissistic Parent: When Forgiveness Becomes a Weapon
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Release Date: 07/21/2025
Why You Stay Loyal to The People Who Hurt You
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Everything is fine until it isn't. The moment when you start noticing the twinge in your stomach, and you can't ignore it anymore, marks the threshold of an awakening to what may be the reality of toxic relationships in your life. Codependents are those who sacrifice the self for a toxic one way relationship, whereas a narcissist sacrifices the relationship for the sake of their ego. When a codependent, highly empathic individual begins to awaken, they cannot unsee what they now see: the passive aggressiveness, the stonewalling, disrespect, and minimization. Many adult children of toxic...
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Managing the People and Relationships That Drain Your Energy
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Do you leave certain conversations feeling drained, anxious, or foggy? Do you notice that some people you speak to have a way of causing you to feel dread? If so, you may have just encountered an energy vampire, someone who literally survives through controlling your consciousness through language, tone, body movements, innuendos, and comments that cause you to wonder what their true intentions are. In this deep and practical episode, Lisa A. Romano, trauma-informed life coach and codependency recovery expert, reveals how to recognize, neutralize, and heal from energetic drain in...
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Neuroscience of Trauma: Healing Emotional Wounds in Adult Children
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
When you are an adult child of emotional neglect, or were raised in an alcoholic, narcissistic, or unpredictable home, you are not aware of how your brain wires the nervous system to be locked in survival mode. Daughters and sons of toxic parents learned to survive through hypervigilance, scanning the faces, moods, and body movements of those around them. This type of scanning, codes the brain for survival and fear anticipation. The problem is, adult children from abusive, neglectful or toxic homes do not know this has occurred. From within the ego system, the little self assumes that...
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How to Find Your Purpose After Trauma
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
If you were raised in a dysfunctional, toxic home, and you struggle today with codependency, self-worth, and relationships, it is easy to lose a sense of meaning and purpose in life. Childhood trauma arrests the mind in a state of hypervigilance, worry, and fear. And although that is not your fault, if this is your experience, until we stop, look within, and take the time to integrate the past with the now, our future becomes a copy of the past, like it or not. There is great hope for the one willing to go within. Lisa A. Romano gently unpacks why so many of us feel stuck chasing...
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How Childhood Trauma Rewires Your Brain Traps You in a False Identity Neuroscience of Identity
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Why do we get stuck on the path of healing—even when we know what to do? In this profound and spiritually charged episode, Lisa A. Romano explores what it truly means to break through the veil—the illusion of the false self that trauma and programming have built around our consciousness. Lisa reveals how trauma rewires the brain to associate authenticity with danger, causing us to abandon our true selves and live from the ego’s illusion of safety. Through the lens of neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality, she helps listeners understand why healing requires more than insight—it...
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The ACOA Blind Spot: 5 Patterns Keeping You Stuck & The Road Back to You
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Why do so many high-functioning adults secretly feel “something’s wrong”—even when life looks fine on paper? In this empowering episode, Lisa A. Romano uncovers the ACOA blind spot: the predictable patterns that form when alcoholism (or “dry” alcoholism) and emotional neglect shape a family system. You’ll learn the five core patterns that keep adult children and grandchildren of alcoholics stuck—and the practical roadmap for getting your power, clarity, and self-respect back. The 5 patterns you’ll recognize: Reality Denied — Gaslighting and minimization train you to...
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Are You a Grandchild of Alcoholics? Why That One Insight Can Change Everything
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Codependents, people-pleasers, those who fawn, seek approval, and external validation, do not consciously understand why they are so frustrated and unhappy. Codependency and fawning are trauma responses that all lead to anger, and resentment. Oftentimes, those who are struggling with emotional and mental health issues, who seek help, are misunderstood when they are codependent. Their symptoms are vague, yet incredibly disruptive and tormenting. When a codependent seeks help, they complain about others, because they have been programmed to believe that someone or something outside of them is...
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When Your Partner Won't Change: Relationship Advice for Codependents: RED FLAG ALERT
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Have you ever been accused of being a problem simply because you brought up a problem? In healthy relationships, it is essential that couples feel safe and are on the same page. It is normal to want your relationship to grow, and to wonder where the line is when it comes to bringing things to your partner's attention that you would like to change. However, there are red flags you need to be aware of particularly if you struggle with fawning, people pleasing, insecure attachment and tend to be the codependent partner in relationships. In this episode, Lisa A. Romano Codependency Expert...
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Letting Go of Those You Love-The Price of Healing and Awakening
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Adult children of alcoholics, and those raised in narcissistic, toxic, neglectful and unpredictable homes, who decide to dive into self growth, self help and emotional healing, inevitably learn that they cannot unsee what they see now that they have awakened to the truth of their toxic family dynamics. This can be a distressing time for someone who has identified themselves as a caretaker, rescuer, people pleaser and who has felt responsible for maintaining family relationships, at all costs, and even at the expense of their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. It is...
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Why I'snt Therapy Working I Am Codependent: I am Getting Worse
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Codependency is an umbrella term used to describe a broad spectrum of emotional, mental and behavioral, subconscious, and automatic trauma responses developed in early childhood as an adaptation to chronic, inescapable stress. While over-functioning as a small child, to avoid rejection, the child's nervous system learns to scan their environment for potential threats. This scanning is called hypervigilance, and it also exiles the inner child into an abyss. Children of toxic, dysfunctional parents, families, and circumstances are denied the compassionate adult, whose role is to mentor, teach,...
info_outlineIn this powerful episode, Lisa A. Romano explores the emotional aftermath of being raised by a vulnerable narcissistic parent—the type who manipulates your compassion, guilt-trips you into forgiveness, and demands loyalty over authenticity.
If you were raised in a home where emotional manipulation, mood swings, and emotional neglect were the norm, this episode will help you understand how these early wounds manifest as codependency, self-abandonment, and chronic anxiety in adulthood.
Lisa breaks down how children of emotionally immature parents learn to suppress their truth to survive—and how that programming carries over into relationships, careers, and the way we see ourselves.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
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What a vulnerable narcissist is and how they condition children through emotional manipulation
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How forced forgiveness becomes a form of control
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Why emotional invalidation leads to codependent behaviors
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How childhood trauma impacts the nervous system and self-worth
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What it takes to begin healing and reclaiming your authentic self
This episode is for you if you:
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Were raised by a parent who guilted or manipulated you emotionally
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Feel responsible for others’ emotions or avoid conflict at all costs
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Struggle with people-pleasing, low self-esteem, or fear of rejection
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Are beginning to awaken to your own trauma history and want tools to heal
Begin Your Healing Journey:
Lisa introduces her signature 12 Week Breakthrough Method—a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based coaching program created specifically for adult children of narcissistic, neglectful, or emotionally immature caregivers.
Inside the program, you'll be guided through:
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Brain retraining techniques rooted in neuroscience
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Inner child healing and self-concept reorganization
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Journaling prompts and assessments to increase self-awareness
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Tools to stop subconscious self-abandonment and start living from your true self
This method has helped thousands heal from complex trauma and break toxic generational patterns, with tools to rewire limiting beliefs and build authentic self-worth.
👉 Learn more: here
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