You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 68, how to feel your feelings.

Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time.

I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy.

All right, my brave hearts, like I mentioned, last week, I drove 21 hours from Boston to Florida and I spent a lot of time

thinking and feeling my feelings and my emotions. So leaving New England was sad but also

exciting at the same time. So I was like straddling this in

between of I'm really sad, heartbroken and disappointed, especially as we were leaving and driving

right outside of Boston and all the beautiful colors were on the trees and the leaves. It was

so gorgeous. But at the same time, I was really giddy to be around family

again. One of my current clients and I have been talking a lot about creating a family dynamic

because that's what she missed about being in the relationship that she was in. And so when I was

on my way down there, I did allow myself to feel the giddiness and the

love and the excitement that came from my thoughts about being around my family. I hadn't really

seen them for about a year and a half now. And I was literally driving down with my dad. And my mom would be near me and I'd be staying

with my cousin who has a kid and one of my other cousins. So it was just like this big group

gathering and I've been so excited and fulfilled through that dynamic and I just love it.

And I love that I get the family dynamic, but I also don't have

the responsibility of actually having a child and having my own family. So I've been really in love

with this. So as I get settled in and figure out all the business stuff and transferring states

and all of that, I will start looking for my own place on the beach,

but right now I have just been really enjoying being with my family.

Okay, so anyways, I spent a lot of time thinking through that experience, and I really

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