The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578102684 ISBN 13: 9780578102689

Publisher: Lisa A. Romano, 2012

Healing and Recovering from Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self-Esteem This story is told through the jagged peephole of the author's awareness, examining her formative wounds and influences from the perspective of a woman who has now gained experience and wisdom. As she peers over her soul's shoulder, she recalls the chaos of her once-fragile childhood mind. She shudders as she is reminded of the sting of her lonely childhood, her feelings of abandonment, and her painful memories of being bullied. Her childhood self was once so lost that she even contemplated suicide. As the years progress, her mind is riddled with obsession, compulsion, and a crippling sense of low self-esteem. A turning point arrives many years later, after marriage and the birth of three children. This story is about healing the faulty programming of childhood. It is about recovery from relationship addiction, food addiction, anxiety, and constant fear. It is a human story that will resonate with readers from all walks of life, and which offers hope to anyone who has felt imprisoned by the past.

From the Author:

I was raised in a home that was one tattered by fear.  Both of my parents were abused and neglected by their alcoholic parents.  Because my parents did not drink, they presumed all their problems were solved.  What they could never have known was, alcohol was not the problem.  Their unconscious belief systems were.  Unaware, my parents did to me what their parents did to them.  They taught me to fear terribly what they and others thought about me.  They programmed me to worry incessantly about when and if our house was going to explode.  I was conditioned to believe that what I felt was unimportant, and worse, my feelings were ones I should distrust.  As a result I developed food addictions, counting obsessions, and feared others.  Lost within in a world in my head, I lived my life on the edge of steep mountainside as taped recorded messages from my past seemed to recycle over and over in my mind.I married a man who treated me very much the same way my parents treated me.  Unaware at the time that I was attracting what I knew--and not an appropriate healthy partner, eventually my life unraveled.  Depression, panic disorders, and anxiety became parts of my everyday.  When a therapist told me that I was not crazy, but I was codependent, a mental and emotional shift occurred within me.  It was the beginning of a fabulous turn of events that have lit The Road Back To Me.Please enjoy this story, for as you will see--it is probably very much like your own.You are loved dear one..and You Are Enough!Lisa A. RomanoACoA Life Coach and MentorEmpowering the adult child with the tools they need to move their lives beyond traditional 12 step programs. I assist ACoA's conquer limiting beliefs and help them create new belief systems that facilitate their personal growth beyond the ACoA label through a co-creative coaching experience.

About the Author:

Lisa A. Romano is the author of the bestselling books The Road Back To Me, My Road Beyond The Codependent Divorce, Loving The Self Affirmations and Quantum Tools To Help You Heal Your Life Now. She is a Certified ACoA Life Coach dedicated to empowering other adult children to move beyond their prior limiting and unconscious beliefs about Self that they learned in childhood.  Her website is healingselfesteem.comYou can also find Lisa A. Romano at Blogtalk Radio where she hosts her own weekly podcast dedicated to empowering adult children from all forms of dysfunctional homes.