Ep. 293 - Running into my ex was the best thing that happened to me
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Picture this: You finally get into that exclusive book club you've been trying to join for months. You walk in excited, ready to build your bigger and better life... and there's your ex. With their new partner. What do you do? Run? Hide? Or something completely different? Today I'm sharing a client's real-time experience that turned what felt like a setback into the most accelerating moment of her healing journey. If you've ever wondered how you'd handle running into your ex in the wild, this episode will change everything.
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| 0:00.0 | You were listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 293. |
| 0:06.2 | Running into my ex was the best thing that happened to me. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:38.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:40.2 | I am so excited to be here with you today. |
| 0:43.2 | So about two weeks ago, I had an amazing coaching call in the Get Over Your X program, and it was just so good. |
| 0:50.9 | I could not share this one specific story with all of the brave hearts turning into the |
| 0:56.1 | podcast. So, and let's just be clear, not because of the crisis that my client was facing, |
| 1:02.6 | but because of the stunning realization that we uncovered together through the coaching. |
| 1:08.8 | Now, I had a client, we're going to call her Sarah. We're not going to use |
| 1:12.3 | her real name here, but Sarah had been working on building her bigger and better life. And |
| 1:18.2 | she had been trying to get a ticket to this thing that sounds like a very boozy book club |
| 1:26.2 | event for months. |
| 1:28.3 | I have in my mind, you know, the type where intellectual people gather in a very gorgeous |
| 1:33.1 | cafe, they're sipping amazing, beautiful coffee, and then they read in silence for two hours. |
| 1:39.1 | So very that girl energy, we love it, very much the life that she was creating. And finally, |
| 1:48.1 | like finally, finally, finally, she gets a ticket to this event. It's been booked all the time. |
| 1:54.1 | And she was just practically vibrating with excitement about going to this event. And it felt like, |
| 1:59.6 | you know, a symbol of everything she |
| 2:01.6 | was building community intellectual stimulation this sophisticated life that she really wanted |
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