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 relationships.

You'll learn how energy vampires operate, how trauma wires your nervous system to attract them, and—most importantly—how to stop giving your energy away. Lisa also explores the shadow side of codependency, showing how even caring, selfless people can unknowingly drain others when they haven't healed their inner wounds.

In this episode, you'll discover:
⚡ The 6 main types of energy vampires — from emotional dumpers to subtle saboteurs
💔 Why unresolved trauma makes you vulnerable to energetic hijacking
🧠 The neuroscience of emotional contagion and why boundaries protect your nervous system
🪞 How to tell if you're the one draining others—and how to stop
🌿 Practical energy-clearing tools: the "psychological condom," breath resets, and somatic boundaries
✨ The balance between compassion and discernment—loving others without abandoning yourself

This episode is for you if:
✔️ You feel exhausted or irritable after helping others
✔️ You struggle to say no without guilt
✔️ You're healing from toxic, narcissistic, or draining relationships
✔️ You're ready to reclaim your emotional sovereignty and peace

Begin Your Breakthrough
Lisa's 12 Week Breakthrough Program offers the neuroscience-based roadmap to reprogram subconscious people-pleasing patterns, strengthen emotional boundaries, and reconnect with your authentic self.
👉 Start your healing journey: here

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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 what it feels, anticipates and experiences is all there is. This is why so many well meaning, and fully committed adult children who seek inner growth, personal development and healing, are baffled by why they feel so stuck.

Being prepared saves your brain energy, but when you are emotionally wounded in childhood, you do not know how your brain keeps you stuck in survival, and unable to escape, thereby locking you into loops of self sabotaging behaviors regardless of how often you hear your conscious mind screaming for something new and improved.

You'll learn:
• Why trauma trains the brain to predict danger (and pick the same partners/jobs)
• How insecure attachment, fawning & people-pleasing sabotage manifestation
• The role of the default mode network, metacognition & observer consciousness
• Practical tools to down-regulate, update your "inner algorithm," and choose new codes
• How to trust divine intuition without bypassing the science

Next step
Start healing your inner child today with Lisa's 12 Week Breakthrough Program.

Not sure where to begin?

Take the free quiz and see your best path.→ visit

Email coach@lisaaromano.com

You are enough.

Namaste.

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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 something outside ourselves—while the real answer lives in the now. Through neuroscience, psychology, and spiritual wisdom, she shows how trauma wires the brain to equate authenticity with danger, creating the illusion of separation from your highest self— and how to integrate, regulate, and come home to who you truly are.

You'll learn:
• Why the brain's prediction machine keeps you looping old stories
• How the ego clings to identities (both "I'm great" and "I'm broken") to feel safe
• Using mindfulness & metacognition to quiet the default mode network
• Practical ways to down-regulate the nervous system and end the inner war
• The first veil to break: "I am separate from my true self"
• How integration (not perfection) creates purpose, peace, and presence

Chapters
00:00 Welcome – If meaning feels out of reach
02:12 Trauma, neurology & the illusion of self
06:45 The first veil: separation from the higher self
10:18 Why your brain resists authenticity (safety vs. unfamiliar)
14:30 Ego identities on both ends of the spectrum
18:40 Mindfulness, observer mode & metacognition
22:55 Integration over fragmentation: ending the inner war
27:40 Rewiring shame & reclaiming self-worth
32:10 Unity, love-consciousness & true purpose in the now
36:50 Your next steps + resources

Take the next step
Ready for a map to rewire your mind and reconnect to your true self? Join Lisa's 12 Week Breakthrough Program to heal at the subconscious level, regulate your nervous system, and integrate your higher self into daily life.

👉 Start here: here
Need guidance on which program fits you best?

Email coach@lisaaromano.com.

You are enough!

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