Were you raised by a narcissistic mother and spend your adult life wondering what's wrong with you? Do you overthink everything, struggle to trust yourself, apologize too easily, and constantly feel like you're never good enough?
In this powerful episode of the Breakdown to Breakthroughs Podcast, trauma-informed life coach Lisa A. Romano explores the lifelong impact a narcissistic mother can have on her daughter's subconscious programming. Lisa explains why many adult daughters of narcissistic mothers carry self-doubt, people pleasing, hypervigilance, codependency, and difficulty trusting themselves long after childhood has ended.
Through six powerful patterns, Lisa shows how emotional neglect, criticism, comparison, gaslighting, conditional love, and walking on eggshells can shape the way a daughter sees herself and relationships throughout adulthood. Most importantly, she explains why these patterns are not evidence that you're broken. They are learned survival patterns, and what the brain learns, the brain can relearn.
If you were raised by a narcissistic mother, you may have spent years asking yourself, "What's wrong with me?"
But Lisa wants you to ask a different question: "What happened to me?"
You were not born believing that you weren't enough. You learned it. You were not born doubting yourself. You learned to doubt yourself. You were not born abandoning your own needs for the approval of others. You adapted to an environment where those behaviors helped you survive.
Healing begins when you stop attacking yourself for the patterns you learned and begin understanding them with self-compassion, awareness, and conscious choice.
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