The Road Back to Me Quotes

“Because no one I ever cared for had reflected a sense of worth back to me, I was cheated out of the ability to “see me” and to value my feelings, all my life long. Ideas”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“As time progressed, I decided to learn all I could about asthma, eczema, and migraine headaches. When I finally made the connection between negative thinking, anxiety, cortisol, and inflammation, I realized that my body was simply reacting to whatever was going on inside of me emotionally.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“I was so wounded by the scars left by the disease of invisibility I internalized as a child that I had no connection to self.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“My mother, my source of life, could not accept me, and worse, in front of others she pretended she did. My awareness of the contrast in realities swept me up in tidal waves of confusion. My states of being were so unsettled, so mind-blowing, so subjective …life almost swallowed me up.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“It is not possible to recover from your own soul’s death without regurgitating the bitterness of what has been. A soul’s death is the result of invalidation, and the only way to heal is by way of unearthing the ugliness that has been tucked away in the crevices of one’s being.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“I learned very early on to disown myself, and to simultaneously smile on cue.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“I have known the soothing voice of suicide, and the aroma of death as a welcoming.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“have known the soothing voice of suicide, and the aroma of death as a welcoming.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“Beneath the burdens of my every day, my self remained a stranger amidst the valleys so wide. This disconnection within so vast, so deep, it is a miracle it did not swallow me up.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

“Conditioned to believe that my identity was determined by the value others placed on me, life was a maze of constant frustration. This self lay quiet, frozen and still, denied its breath.”
― Lisa A. Romano, The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.