What If You Knew You Were Enough?
Healing codependency means reconnecting with the inner child and calming the nervous system so real healing can take place.
Trauma-informed support for adult children healing codependency, people-pleasing, and emotional self-abandonment.
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You’re not broken — you adapted.
You’re not broken — you adapted.
Meet Lisa A. Romano
I wasn’t born knowing how to heal codependency. I learned the hard way — through years of feeling invisible, walking on eggshells, and losing myself in relationships that mirrored the emotional chaos of my childhood.
As an adult child of two adult children of alcoholics, I know firsthand what it feels like to live in quiet self-abandonment — fawning for approval, over-giving to stay connected, and never quite feeling good enough, no matter how much I achieved. For a long time, I believed my pain was a personal flaw. It wasn’t. It was a subconscious survival pattern.
My work is rooted in decades of personal healing, professional experience, and a deep commitment to helping others reconnect with themselves gently and honestly. Healing happens when safety is restored — not through force, but through awareness, compassion, and nervous system regulation.
It is an honor to work with adult children. They are the cycle-breakers — the ones who feel what previous generations could not, grieve what was never acknowledged, and choose healing so the past no longer defines the future.
Common signs of codependency
These patterns make sense in the context of childhood survival. We can only attract what feels familiar, and not necessarily what we desire or is healthy. And with the right support, we can heal what has kept us stuck.
A loss of selfhood, you don't know who you are
People-pleasing and feeling responsible for others' moods, emotions, and contentment
Intense fear of disappointing others, ruminating over how others might feel about you
Chronic self-doubt, making decisions based on how others may react
Losing touch with your own needs, and have no idea how to self love
Attracting narcissistic partners, and or those who are avoidant
What makes this work different
My work is rooted in inner child healing. By gently addressing the subconscious trauma responses formed in childhood, this approach allows the nervous system to relax, integrate, and heal — without force. I create the systems for transformation that your inner child responds to.
I created this framework through my own codependency recovery journey, after years of insight, talk therapy, and willpower-based approaches failed to create lasting change. What I discovered is this: healing codependency requires more than awareness alone.
It requires a method that works beneath conscious effort — one that gently bypasses automatic survival responses and supports healing at the subconscious level.
This work focuses on reconnecting with the inner child while calming the nervous system, allowing awareness, integration, and lasting change to unfold naturally. It is informed by neuroscience, shaped by decades of lived experience, and trusted by psychologists and therapists who understand the limits of insight-only approaches.
Ways to begin (no pressure)
Begin with awareness
Find ongoing support
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You’re allowed to move at your own pace.
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