By Lisa A. Romano, Fri, 10/16/2015 - 00:00
codependent
It is not uncommon for adult children of alcoholics to attract energy beings who are very similar to their parents. It is quite common in fact for adult children to attract alcoholics as partners and to have children with drug and alcoholc issues. I hear some wondering, "But how could this be? I did not drink, and I hated my father who was an alcoholic.
Adult Children of Alcoholics have been denied a childhood. Because our lives have been so tattered with emotional neglect, we do not feel seen psychologically. As a result we struggle today with feelings of low self worth. We wonder secretly, "Who am I? What do I deserve? Am I good enough?"
Healing ourselves requires us to be as open and honest to our personal truth, regardless of whom our personal truth disappoints.
As an ACoA we often find ourselves wrapped in turmoil. Listen in as ACoA Life Coach Lisa A. Romano, author of several bestselling books describes how it is we unaware ACoA's create drama in our lives. "Until we are able to understand that our decisions, determine our destiny--we will always be stuck in victim mode--thinking and falsely believing we are powerless over our lives. It is a very difficult thing to accept that we are creating our own reality--when our realities hurt so much."
By Lisa A. Romano, Sat, 12/21/2013 - 23:00
Any adult child of an alcoholic or any adult child of an emotionally manipulative parent would tell you that the slightest conversation about the most mundane thing is enough to cause a total breakdown in communication with one of or both of their dysfunctional parents.
Whether it is a conversation about the weather, or about a news story on television, when trying to communicate with an alcoholic--or emotional manipulator--even the most simple conversation topics are enough to...
If you are the adult child of an alcoholic--that means that you did not learn how to think 'well/healthy or appropriately' as a child. How could you? Your parents were inebriated--and or in denial about being inebriated.
Are you cycling in and out of unhealthy relationships? Do you easily get sucked into other people's drama's?
By Lisa A. Romano, Tue, 12/03/2013 - 23:00
As a seeker of absolute truth--my thirst for knowledge never fails.
Each and every new day I learn more about this thing called 'codependency'.
For anyone struggling to wrap their tattered minds around how and why codependency and even narcissism is created, I highly recommend...
By Lisa A. Romano, Wed, 11/20/2013 - 23:00
Tune IN NOW to Lisa A. Romano at Blog Talk Radio
On today's show we will be discussing...
By Lisa A. Romano, Wed, 11/20/2013 - 23:00
By Lisa A. Romano, Sun, 11/17/2013 - 00:00
Codependency is the equivalent to mental and emotional slavery.
Anything that we experience within the mental and or emotional body must manifest in the physical body. We can never separate our emotional or mental experience from our physical bodies--as all beings are the sum of that which is experienced on every level of existence.
Codependent relationships are maddening...
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