HEALING HURTS: The hidden heartbreak of leaving your old self behind
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sobriety meant losing friends who only knew them as drinkers. Changing priorities meant some family relationships shifted or ended. Even work and identity had to be rebuilt from scratch.
They talk about the grief of outgrowing people you thought would be in your life forever, and how clarity can make old dynamics impossible to return to. But they also share the small wins, the peace, and the self-respect that come with sticking it out.
If you’re in the messy middle of getting better, this episode is a reminder that the loneliness won’t last—but the growth will.
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone always talks about healing as if it's the best thing and it can be, but it can also be incredibly lonely. |
| 0:06.8 | Often when we change, we find that we outgrow friendships, family roles and in fact our former selves. |
| 0:14.3 | Me and Rocks have both gone through quite a lot of healing and actually like Rock said, it can be seen as a good thing, but it's really quite challenging. |
| 0:22.5 | Absolutely. This is late blooms where we are getting our lives together. |
| 0:26.9 | Eventually. |
| 0:28.1 | I don't really like the healing journey. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, not at all. Just... |
| 0:35.0 | Well, no, healing is amazing. |
| 0:38.1 | Being healthy is... |
| 0:39.4 | But like going on a healing journey, because people talk about it like, it's the most |
| 0:43.7 | amazing thing and you're going to be doing yoga and eating well and connecting to |
| 0:47.9 | your inner child. |
| 0:49.3 | Truth is, you won't know what you're doing. |
| 0:52.2 | You're feeling incredibly lonely, out in the cold. |
| 0:54.9 | You'll question everything. |
| 0:56.8 | You can also, I struggled with this. |
| 0:59.3 | You can also become quite judgmental of others when you... |
| 1:02.5 | Oh, in the early days. |
| 1:03.3 | It's like when you quit smoking. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | And then people like hate smokers. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah. |
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