Ep. 317 - The truth about "losing everything"
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
If it feels like you "lost everything" when your ex left, this episode will change your life. Inside, Dorothy breaks down the difference between what you think was taken from you and what was never truly yours to begin with… and then shows you the invisible gains that heartbreak makes available the second someone walks out of your life. You'll learn the three concrete steps to make those gains visible THIS week, so you stop fixating on the life that ended and start building the one that just opened up. If you're done staring at the empty space they left behind and ready to see what's possible in front of you, you need this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your X episode number 317, the truth about losing everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:27.3 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:37.6 | Today we're going somewhere real, somewhere raw, because if you're listening to this |
| 0:42.7 | episode, chances are you're feeling like you've lost everything. |
| 0:46.1 | And I am not going to tell you that you didn't. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm going to tell you what you actually lost, what you're actually gaining, and why this |
| 0:53.8 | moment, as devastating |
| 0:55.2 | as it might be, might be the most important pivotal point of your entire life. So first, I want to |
| 1:03.7 | share a little story. So years ago at this point, I was engaged. I had the ring, I had the man, |
| 1:10.5 | I had the future all mapped out in my head. And then, in what felt like a blink of an eye, literally in a matter of days, so crazy to think about now, in a matter of days, I had an epic miscarriage at 13 weeks. I lost baby and maybe I think two days later I lost my |
| 1:30.5 | fiance and then of course because I lost my fiance I was also losing my home and being |
| 1:36.9 | asked to relocate so all of it gone very very quickly and I remember lying on the ground of the backyard that was no longer |
| 1:48.1 | mine. And I was thinking like, this is it. Like this is the end of everything I've worked for, |
| 1:55.4 | everything I've dreamt of. It was so close I could taste it. Right. I had the guy. I had the ring and the fiancee, |
| 2:03.6 | the home and the baby. I was like, I literally had it all right there. Like I could taste it. And it was |
| 2:09.8 | all gone. Everything I thought my life was supposed to be. And I really truthfully felt like it was |
| 2:16.1 | the end. And I'm not trying to sound dramatic, but I wasn't even sure if I wanted to be. And I really truthfully felt like it was the end. And I'm not trying to sound |
| 2:18.6 | dramatic, but I wasn't even sure if I wanted to be here anymore. It was so gut-wrenching. |
| 2:26.0 | And in that moment, there was a part of this that was right, right? Like it definitely was the |
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