Don’t Let Breakups Break You | Matthew Hussey

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Relationship expert Matthew Hussey shares breakup advice, likening heartbreak recovery to curing a hangover versus training as an athlete. Hussey encourages nourishing yourself first by connecting platonically, eating well, resting, and staying active. He explains feeling better, even for minutes, is a reference point proving it's possible to incrementally reclaim joy. Hussey urges acknowledging emotions without attachment rather than fighting them. He advocates discovering then expanding whatever brings relief, making more minutes of feeling okay the goal on the road to wholeness.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:13.5	What advice would you give to people that are feeling really lonely because they just went through a breakup, whether it be the end of the year or months ago,
0:22.6	or maybe, you know, they just went through a breakup this week in the middle of quarantine.
0:26.6	And they're lonely, they're alone, they're emotionally hurt, and they're needing that kind of quick connection again.
0:36.6	They're needing, they might go back to the person because they're feeling weak and they miss that kind of quick connection again. They're needing, they might go back to the person because
0:39.5	they're feeling weak and they miss that feeling of connection or love or intimacy. But they know
0:45.2	it's not the right fit for them long term. They know. But this is in a heightened state of
0:50.4	vulnerability for them that they go back quicker. What advice do you have to someone like that?
0:55.0	When you experience true heartbreak,
0:58.0	it is one of the most devastating feelings in the world.
1:01.0	Devastating.
1:02.0	You're a zombie.
1:03.0	And it's worse than you're dead inside.
1:05.0	You act dead to everybody else inside.
1:07.0	You feel like you're dying.
1:09.0	That's true. On loop all day. You can't get out. Yes, that's true.
1:10.9	On loop all day.
1:12.5	You can't get out of it, yeah.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.7	In a breakup, and this is as true now, now's no different.
1:19.1	People need to recognize that now is just a difficult breakup on steroids,
1:24.1	but it's just the same emotions.
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