Ep. 314 - The one word fix for breakup overwhelm
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
If you've been saying "I'm so overwhelmed" about your breakup, whether it's the grief, the urge to text them, or starting over… this episode is about to change everything. Dorothy exposes how that one word secretly convinces your brain you can't handle what's happening and gives you a simple, powerful switch that rewires your response in real time. You'll learn the one-word hack that turns panic into presence, helps you move instead of spiral, and proves that you're far more capable than your mind wants you to believe. If you've felt like you're drowning in the breakup waves, this is the episode that teaches you how to swim.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 314, the one word fix for breakup overwhelm. |
| 0:12.8 | 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. Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello, hello, my beautiful brave hearts. How are you doing? I am so excited to be here with you today. |
| 0:41.2 | We're going to be talking about overwhelming your breakup. So if you've ever caught yourself feeling like you're just so overwhelmed by how much you miss him, you're so overwhelmed by starting over, I want you to stay with me because I am going to show you a one word shift that changes |
| 0:57.0 | overwhelm for you. And we have to give credit where credits do. I have the most magical, |
| 1:03.7 | brilliant, badass, beautiful brave hearts in the entire world. I'm so obsessed. And this week's |
| 1:10.0 | podcast episode is actually inspired and crafted by one of the world. I'm so obsessed. And this week's podcast episode is actually inspired and crafted by one of my |
| 1:15.4 | Bigger and Better Life Mastermind clients, Alleya, who is in BBL, our Bigger and Better |
| 1:22.4 | Life Mastermind. And she posted something in our community under her, under our Wins section, |
| 1:29.4 | that really stopped me in my tracks and inspired today's podcast episode. So we all want to say thank you. Thank you, |
| 1:34.7 | thank you, thank you, thank you, girl for going through this. I am literally just going to kind of share |
| 1:39.0 | what she experienced. She had been journaling about feeling overwhelmed every single morning. |
| 1:44.9 | And here's what she said. She said, I wanted to share an aha moment I had this past week. I kept waking up journaling |
| 1:51.1 | that I felt overwhelmed. And then I thought, okay, if overwhelm is like a level 80 to 100 stress, |
| 1:58.7 | what's the words 450 to 79 level stress? And then with the help of |
| 2:03.1 | Google, I learned about the word whelmed. Sounds stupid, but my brain just went to overwhelm. It never |
| 2:09.2 | considered there's a step before it. Mind fucking blown. We love this. I sat with defining the words |
| 2:15.4 | for me. Overwhelm equated to, I can't do this, it's all too |
| 2:20.0 | much, which equates to feeling like a wave is swallowing me whole. Where whelm equates to, |
| 2:25.3 | this is a lot but doable, I can do hard things, which equates to feelings like being held down |
| 2:30.1 | by a wave, but knowing I'm okay. So taking over, in quotes, right, the over part out of the |
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