Ep. 309 - When your breakup feels like the worst thing that's ever happened
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If your divorce or breakup feels like the worst thing that's ever happened to you, this episode is for you. Dorothy walks you through why trying to squeeze your pain into cheerful reframes keeps you stuck, and demonstrates a clearer alternative: how to hold the real hurt without it defining you, rewrite the story in a way that's honest and authentically yours, and use one simple prompt to start making calm, powerful decisions from. Listen if you're done pretending your wounds look pretty and want a practical, compassionate way to move forward that keeps your integrity intact.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 309, when your breakup feels like the worst thing that's ever happened. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:27.9 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:38.3 | How is everyone doing? |
| 0:39.7 | I love you so much. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm so excited to be here with you today. |
| 0:44.0 | I want to talk to those of you who kind of feel like your divorce or your breakup is literally |
| 0:49.7 | the worst thing that's ever happened to you. |
| 0:52.9 | And I promise that I'm not going to spend 20 minutes |
| 0:56.6 | telling you how it was. So I was recently coaching an amazing, brilliant, one of the smartest |
| 1:05.0 | individuals I've ever met. She's a client of mine where we were actually originally coaching on something that was |
| 1:13.0 | completely unrelated but what came through was that she wasn't sure she'd ever get to this |
| 1:18.8 | place where she feels like she truthfully and honestly thinks that her divorce is the best thing |
| 1:24.6 | that ever happened to her. She was married for 25 years. It was what |
| 1:29.2 | she wanted, right? We were talking about morals and values in that when she got married, her and her |
| 1:35.4 | husband both committed to those values, right? Saying, you know, they would work on everything |
| 1:40.6 | through thick and thin, in sickness and in health. And especially those of us who have |
| 1:45.9 | potentially a religious background where divorce isn't really seen as an option, there are only |
| 1:53.2 | like specific things that could happen that would give us the quote unquote right to get divorced. |
| 1:58.3 | And if those didn't happen, then we should do everything to make it work |
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