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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 and when to start dating again after a breakup. So if you've been

through a breakup in the last few months, maybe even longer, and you've had a period of time to

turn inwards, to focus on yourself, which by the way, certainly what I recommend after a breakup,

rushing back into things as a way to distract ourselves

or bypass the pain and the grief is probably just kicking the can down the road and

delaying the inevitable because whatever wounds we're carrying, we're going to have to face

eventually. But in any case, if you've been through a breakup and then you've had some time and

you're feeling like maybe I'm ready to start dating again, but you're not really sure,

I'm going to be offering some thoughts in this episode as to signs that you might be ready,

signs that you might not be ready, and just some tips around managing your expectations of what it's likely

to look like as you dip your toe back in as you venture out into the world of dating so that you

can do that in a way that feels really supported and not rushed and not pressured while also,

as I said, managing expectations around possible grief that might come up,

anxiety, all of those other feelings which I actually think are really normal and not necessarily

a sign that something's wrong. And I think really like at the heart of everything we're going

to talk about today is knowing how to attune to yourself and be really honest about where you're

at and what you're needing

and what feels right for you and continually checking in with that because of course

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