Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Hello. and I'm really glad you're here. Hi everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, I'm going to be answering all of your questions around breakups.

I put the word out on Instagram last week and was absolutely inundated with questions about

breakups and podcast topic requests. So rather than just picking one, I thought to structure this

as a Q&A and in so doing, hopefully cover as much ground as possible and answer as many

people's questions as possible. There was a lot of overlap in the questions that I got.

So we're going to be talking about things ranging from the famed no contact period after a breakup,

jealousy around an ex's new partner and how to manage that, what to do when your breakup really

blindsides you and catches you out of the blue and navigating things like closure and communication

in the wake of something like that?

What to do with feelings of shame and inadequacy

when a partner breaks up with you

and stories around being given up on which I think can be really pervasive

and really painful. And finally, how to know if you're ready to start dating again and some

tips in how to approach that. Before we dive into that, a reminder that my newest course

Higher Love is launching in less than two weeks now,

which is very exciting. It's a program all about breakups, as you might have gathered from

my content recently, not only processing a breakup and really being with your grief and

increasing your capacity to hold those big emotions, but also getting

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