You're listening to episode 51 of the baggage reclaim sessions and it's time for an

addition of why did we break up. I'm your host Natalie Lou, author of baggage reclaim.com

where I help people to offload the shady relationships

and emotional baggage that block healthy self-esteem and loving relationships.

Welcome to another edition of Why Did We Break Up. This episode is a little different.

Reason being, it's actually replacing the episode that went live last week.

And so what I'm going to do is that instead of featuring a couple,

I'm going to summarize the key lessons from the season of episodes so far

and use this as a springboard for reflection that will

mark a short break in the season's episodes.

Now actually the lessons that I share here is really like we're really talking about a collective.

Why did we break up?

Because most of us, unless we've only ever been in one relationship, we have been for a breakup. And yeah,

breakups hurt and breakups actually stay with us in the sense that

depending on how we process it, you know, depending on what we do sense that break up

break up and the break up and the subsequent breakups can stay with us

really in our subsequent relationships until we really heal from those so that we can truly move forward.

So what I talk about here in this episode is really about how we have collectively gone through a hell of a lot of breakups

and collectively we have all been in a great deal of pain at some point and

collectively we all stand in a great deal of pain at some point,

and collectively, we all stand to learn

a number of universal lessons really from our breakups.

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