Ep. 330 - Why you still feel sad about your breakup
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever caught yourself thinking "I shouldn't still feel this way by now" whether it's a wave of sadness years after the breakup or a gut-punch reaction to something like divorce paperwork, this episode will hit home. We're unpacking why judging your emotions is the exact thing that keeps you stuck and how that quiet internal pressure adds a second layer of suffering most people don't even realize they're creating. I share a powerful assignment I gave a client inside the GOYE program, that completely changes how you relate to your feelings and why building this emotional foundation makes everything else in healing move faster. If you're tired of fighting your reactions and wondering what's wrong with you, feeling like this healing journey is taking forever, this episode will feel like a deep exhale and give you a practical place to start this week.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 330. |
| 0:05.2 | Why You Still Feel Sad about your breakup. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:27.1 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:38.6 | How is everyone doing? |
| 0:40.9 | I am so excited to be here with you today. |
| 0:46.6 | I wanted to talk about a recent coaching call that I had inside of the Gidavirx program. |
| 0:48.6 | It was really, really fun. |
| 0:50.9 | We celebrated a lot, actually, in that call. |
| 0:55.4 | But I felt like there was some coaching-related content that I felt would be really appropriate and really good for anyone listening into the podcast to know about and work on |
| 0:59.8 | as well. So let's spend a little bit of time together chit chatting about it. I am so pumped to be |
| 1:05.8 | here. So this amazing beautiful woman actually had just joined the Get Over Your X program and her |
| 1:11.3 | ex has told her for about two-ish years that he does not want to be in a relationship with her. |
| 1:18.8 | Now they have a child together and so they see each other and coordinate a lot with that. |
| 1:24.3 | But what happened this week was that she was at work and she was sent an email and that email was from her ex |
| 1:30.6 | talking about how he's going to start the filing process for divorce paperwork. |
| 1:38.6 | And so hard, right? |
| 1:42.2 | And what she said to me though was like really crazy because she goes it's been so |
| 1:48.1 | long and i've known that this is coming i shouldn't be sad about this still like i should have |
| 1:54.1 | worked through this already and i but she mentioned she was like i couldn't work i couldn't focus on |
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