Ep. 299 - Why can't I get over my ex?
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
You've been doing all the "right things" to get over your ex. Therapy, journaling, staying busy, even no contact, but you're still waking up at 2 AM thinking about them, still checking their social media, still feeling like your whole life is completely over. You're not broken, and you're not doing anything wrong. There's just one crucial piece missing that most breakup advice completely ignores. In this episode, I'm sharing exactly what that piece is and the simple approach that finally made the difference for me and thousands of my clients. If you've been wondering why you're still struggling when you're trying so hard, this episode has the answers you've been looking for.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 299. |
| 0:05.5 | Why can't I get over my ex? |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:26.9 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello, hello, my beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:36.8 | I have been thinking about all of you a lot lately and how I can better serve you no matter |
| 0:43.1 | where you are in your breakup journey. |
| 0:44.7 | And I personally just have been thinking a lot about the person who's maybe three months |
| 0:49.9 | post breakup. |
| 0:50.9 | They've read every single self-help article. They've listened to all of the |
| 0:56.3 | podcasts, including the How to Get Over Your X podcast. Maybe they've tried journaling, therapy, |
| 1:02.0 | keeping themselves busy just like I did back in 2016, but perhaps they're just still up at 2 a.m. |
| 1:08.4 | with their heart racing, checking the social media to see if he's posted |
| 1:11.5 | anything that will give any clues into a life that they used to know every second of, right? |
| 1:18.8 | And perhaps their nervous system is still hijacked by someone who doesn't want them anymore |
| 1:24.2 | and they feel addicted to their wrecks because that was just me and I feel like sometimes |
| 1:29.5 | I can really recall that version of myself in 2016 and I just my heart goes out to her. |
| 1:37.1 | Now I've lived that right. We've mentioned that before in the episode or on the podcast but I |
| 1:42.5 | I used to have 2 a.m. calls with my dad, helping me come back |
| 1:46.3 | from full-on panic attacks of like, what the fuck am I going to do with my life now that he's not |
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