Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens.

And I'm Jan Black.

When a romantic relationship ends, for whatever the reason, we can find ourselves completely devastated.

And I speak from personal experience. I think we all do, actually. How can we pick up the pieces

of a broken heart and move forward with our lives when even getting up in the morning feels

like an overwhelming challenge? Well, our guest on this episode, Amy Chan, found herself jobless,

homeless, and single all at once when a relationship with her boyfriend ended. Since then,

she's not only found a way to turn heartbreak into healing for herself, but for others as well.

Amy founded a breakup boot camp to help women heal themselves first and their hearts

second. And she's now written a book called Breakup Boot Camp, the science of rewiring your heart.

Amy, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. Tell us more about what you

experienced with that devastating breakup.

Yeah, so about nine years ago, I was living in Vancouver and I thought I was living the dream.

And the dream to me was climbing the corporate ladder, dating to get married, eventually having children and not needing to work

and just right on the side for fun. And I was well on that path. I was in a relationship with

someone I thought I was going to marry. And we had even discussed the plans that after when we had

children, I would stay at home. And I had my whole life and plan set out.

And the universe, I guess, had a different plan for me because one day that relationship fell apart due to

infidelity. And I had lost my job a few months prior to that. So there I was.

I found myself without a home, without a boyfriend,

without this future plan that I had set my identity on.

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