Ep. 71 - How to enjoy the holidays during a breakup
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
- Why being heartbroken during the holidays is actually an advantage
- Learn how to feel good internally no matter the outside circumstances
- Steps on how to heal from your breakup during the holidays this year
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 71, how to enjoy the holidays during a breakup. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:29.3 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, my brave hearts. |
| 0:39.4 | Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas and a happy new year. |
| 0:53.5 | So I don't know about all of you, but I feel kind of like I'm constantly being told by society and sometimes directly, but also indirectly, that Christmas is a hard time for breakups. |
| 0:56.7 | That it's not going to be as good as when you're in a relationship. And in all honestly, I really believe it's 50-50. There are pros and cons to |
| 1:02.5 | both. And me, being someone who just came from a relationship and I'm used to spending the holidays |
| 1:09.2 | with my significant other, it was not that |
| 1:12.6 | great in my mind. And what I mean by that is it wasn't as great as I feel like a lot of people |
| 1:18.8 | romanticize it being. I had to split my family time between his and mine. We would have to |
| 1:26.0 | drive and travel all kinds of places to see all the people. |
| 1:29.5 | It was never equal amounts. It was a mess trying to figure it out. I'm a huge planner, not was. |
| 1:36.4 | I still am a huge planner, and he wasn't a planner, and he would try to leave things to the last |
| 1:40.1 | minute. So I was making plans on my own. It was the whole thing. I was literally on the phone |
| 1:44.1 | with my brother recently, who lives in California, and he was talking to me about, minute and so I was making plans on my own. It was the whole thing. I was literally on the phone with |
| 1:44.2 | my brother recently who lives in California and he was talking to me about him and his girlfriend |
| 1:49.5 | and trying to figure out where they were going and I was like, oh, m.g. I don't miss that. Not even |
| 1:56.9 | a little. Like no part of me is like, yeah, you know what I want to do is deal with that. |
| 2:02.0 | I am in this space right now where I am so pumped to be 30. I am so pumped to be single |
| 2:09.6 | and I am so pumped to be single during the holiday season. Amazing. I've been chit-chatting |
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