You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, we are talking about how to rebuild your self-worth after a breakup.

So this is something that I'm sure I've touched on before on the podcast.

Gosh, we're almost at 200 episodes.

So inevitably I've touched on this before on the podcast.

But it's one that I get asked about a lot.

And understandably so, I think, for a lot of people, endings to relationships, and particularly

when those endings were unwanted and maybe the relationship died a long and painful death,

we can really easily lose ourselves in that process of trying to hold on to someone else.

And I think that can leave us feeling really empty-handed and a little

bit worn down in terms of our self-worth. And so while the grieving process after a breakup is something

that I really believe in honoring and actually embracing rather than trying to bypass or avoid, I also think that breakups are a

really beautiful opportunity to evolve and to reflect and to rebuild ourselves. With the benefit

of everything that we've learned and experienced, I think that's really how we grow. And I think

it's only when we approach that with a level of intentionality that we're

able to use our breakup for our own good and really emerge better than ever before. So in today's

episode, I'm going to be sharing some thoughts specifically around self-worth, you know, why breakups

and unhealthy relationships can be damaging to our self-worth,

what that can look like in the breakup period.

And my best advice for how you can turn things around, if you're feeling really down in

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