Ep. 205 - Does anyone else feel embarrassed about their breakup?
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder why breakups often leave us feeling embarrassed? Join Breakup Coach Dorothy as she shatters the silence surrounding this emotion. In this episode we explore how pursuing our desires garners more cheers than jeers, and dive into practical strategies for coping with embarrassment, including intentionally stepping out of comfort zones to befriend rejection and understanding that our self-perception matters more than imagined judgments.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 205. |
| 0:04.5 | Does anyone else feel embarrassed about their breakup? |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:25.8 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:33.1 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:34.5 | Let's talk about embarrassment. |
| 0:37.3 | I had a brave heart reaching out to me asking |
| 0:39.9 | if I could do a podcast episode about feeling embarrassed about your breakup. And the ironic part was |
| 0:45.6 | she was embarrassed. She even asked me to do it. So that was funny. I asked her, you know, |
| 0:50.7 | what's coming up for you? Why are you feeling embarrassed? What are you embarrassed about? And she mentioned that she was really embarrassed to talk to her friends and |
| 0:59.3 | family about the guy she had been seeing because they all knew it wouldn't work out. |
| 1:04.2 | But she believed in it anyways and she stayed and she tried to make things work out. And now |
| 1:09.6 | she is finally realizing that it is not |
| 1:12.5 | working out and she's embarrassed about it. So I know she's not alone in this. We've all been there. |
| 1:18.1 | We've all done that. And if it's not in a breakup sense, it's probably like with a job or with a |
| 1:23.1 | friendship or with a family member. So here's what we're going to do. |
| 1:29.2 | This makes total sense. |
| 1:30.3 | We're going to talk all about it. |
| 1:32.4 | And we're going to talk about it in a couple of different ways. |
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