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Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, precoftana. I'm glad you're here. Welcome back. Today, we're going to be talking about heartache from the stoic perspective, specifically how to deal with it. A lot of you have written in in the

past to ask me questions like, I'm going through a divorce with my spouse, I'm breaking up with my

long-time boyfriend or a girlfriend, and I need to know how to deal with this stoically. The truth of

the matter is, a lot of you reach out to me a lot of the time. I get half a dozen emails almost every day

from listeners, just like you, asking questions just like this one. And I had considered writing a book

to answer these questions. In fact, I may still do that, but since I already have a book coming

out in November, I can't do that at the same

time. There are rules. You can't release a book and then immediately release another book that

competes with the sales of the first book. The publisher gets upset with you. But what I can do is

start a long form, God forbid, I'm using this word, newsletter. And I say, God forbid, because I think

newsletters, I don't know,

I don't feel great about them, nobody likes more email. But newsletters, which I will now call

publications, email publications, are a great place to delve into longer form, deeper content.

And an email inbox isn't a bad place to get this stuff if you actually want this stuff.

So if you go to practical stoicism.net, I tried to get the dot com, but somebody else already has it.

I don't know who has it. They don't have anything up. I tried to contact them, but I'm stuck with

the dot net, folks. I'm sorry. Practical stoicism.net, you can subscribe to what is now and will always be a publication free to the

public, which will be delivered to your email inbox every Monday morning at 5am, U.S. Eastern Time.

And in each one of these editions, I'm going to be diving into a topic like, for example,

heartache or another example, and an

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