Do you keep repeating the same relationship patterns, people-pleasing behaviors, or emotional reactions even though you understand where they came from? Do you feel responsible for everyone else's feelings while losing touch with your own needs, identity, and sense of safety?
In this powerful episode of the Breakdown to Breakthroughs Podcast, trauma-informed life coach Lisa A. Romano reveals seven childhood programs that can continue running your adult life long after you leave a dysfunctional family system. Lisa explains how childhood programming can shape your personality, relationships, boundaries, self-worth, and automatic responses without you even realizing it.
Drawing from more than 24 years of experience helping adult children of dysfunction heal from codependency and narcissistic abuse, Lisa explores why behaviors such as people pleasing, hyperindependence, perfectionism, conflict avoidance, overfunctioning, and hypervigilance may not be personality flaws at all. They may be survival patterns your nervous system learned in childhood.
You did not choose the programming you learned in childhood, but you can choose what happens next. Healing begins when you recognize the survival patterns that once protected you, stop confusing them with your identity, and begin consciously creating new responses rooted in self-trust, self-respect, and self-love.
You cannot change an old program while allowing it to run your life on autopilot. The moment you rise above the veil of consciousness, you can begin to observe the pattern instead of automatically becoming the pattern.
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