Ep. 333 - The 4 stages of heartbreak
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like you've tried everything to get over your ex, no contact, journaling, therapy, working out, staying busy, but nothing is actually working, this episode might explain why. After helping people heal heartbreak for nearly a decade, I started noticing a pattern: most people are trying to heal using strategies meant for a completely different stage of heartbreak. In this episode, I break down the four stages of heartbreak I see over and over again in my coaching practice and how each stage has a completely different problem to solve. When you understand exactly where you are in the process, everything starts to make more sense and the path forward becomes much clearer. If you've been wondering why healing feels harder than it "should," this conversation will help you finally diagnose what's really going on and point you toward the next step.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your X, episode number 33, the four stages of heartbreak. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:27.7 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:38.1 | How is everyone doing today? |
| 0:40.1 | I am so excited to be here with you. |
| 0:43.2 | So I was actually interviewing a beautiful recent graduate from the Get Over YX program. |
| 0:49.7 | Actually, she hasn't fully graduated, but she's about to graduate. |
| 0:57.3 | And she kept bringing up these lessons from an event that I did earlier, actually late 2025 in the breakup clinic. So in this |
| 1:08.5 | breakup clinic, I taught the four stages of heartbreak along with the four remedies |
| 1:12.9 | that go along with it. |
| 1:14.6 | And so I figured it would be really good for me to teach it here on the podcast. |
| 1:19.4 | So I think a lot of times people get the seven stages of grief confused. |
| 1:25.9 | It gets referenced for all kinds of heartbreaking moments in life when in reality |
| 1:31.1 | those stages were specifically curated and created and researched with terminally ill cancer |
| 1:38.4 | patients in their family. So since I have been helping humans heal heartbreak for almost 10 years now, which is crazy. |
| 1:46.8 | I figured I should create and craft the stages of heartbreak. |
| 1:52.1 | And it has been really helping so many people to not only have it kind of laid out, |
| 1:57.4 | but also they can self-diagnose where they are and then you're given the steps and the |
| 2:02.6 | solutions for each stage. So let's dive in. This is going to be a three-part series. We're going to |
| 2:08.6 | talk about each of the stages of heartbreak in this episode. Next week, I'll teach you the remedy |
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