Ep. 267 - What to do with your happy memories of your ex
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we dive into a common post-breakup challenge: handling the happy memories with your ex that keep pulling you back. If you find yourself frequently lost in nostalgic moments, wondering how to balance these memories with your current path to healing, this discussion is for you. We explore a transformative approach that doesn't erase the past but empowers you to live fully in the present. Tune in to learn how you can reshape your relationship with these memories, allowing them to coexist with your journey towards a brighter, independent future. This episode offers key insights and practical strategies to help you navigate your emotional landscape more effectively. Join us to find out how to turn those memories into stepping stones for personal growth.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 267. |
| 0:05.1 | What to do with your happy memories. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:29.2 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:39.0 | I hope all of you had an amazing Thanksgiving. |
| 0:41.4 | I am sending you all of the love. |
| 0:48.9 | I bet by this point I miss you all and I miss podcasting because I have been on maternity leave. |
| 0:56.8 | But today, when I'm recording this back in September, I had a Get Over Your X program coaching call this morning and I was coaching on undesirable results. |
| 1:00.1 | We will have a podcast episode all about that next week. |
| 1:04.3 | But one undesirable result that one of my clients was having was this constant slippery slope |
| 1:10.3 | of having really amazing memories of her ex, |
| 1:14.8 | right? I'm sure a lot of you have amazing, beautiful memories of your ex, fun times, beautiful |
| 1:20.8 | moments, and sometimes you can get caught spending a lot of time down memory lane. And that was what was happening. |
| 1:29.1 | She was in her head, in her memories so much. And they were a lot of happy memories, |
| 1:36.7 | but she wasn't feeling happy about those memories, right? Now, I want to say that happy, |
| 1:42.3 | happy memories on their own, totally not a problem. Just memories in general |
| 1:47.5 | are neutral, whether they're happy memories or sad memories. Those are all perceptions. But memory |
| 1:53.7 | in general, your memory is neutral with judgment, right? Memory, happy memories then with any judgment or staying in those |
| 2:04.0 | memories rather than living in your present moment that's what I'm seeing is the problem what we do |
| 2:08.5 | with memories how we describe them how we perceive them and how we react to memories is where |
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