Heartbreak: how to move on without all the answers
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
It's the last episode of season one of Dial Emma, but never fear! I'll be back with season two very soon, so if you have a dilemma that you'd like my help with, please do submit it anonymously here.
In this season finale, I'm tackling three dilemmas, all with a common theme: heartbreak.
Whether it's the ex you can't forget, a partner who left without closure, or the fear of opening up again, I delve into the emotional wounds that we're left with after heartbreak, and the therapeutic insights, techniques and advice that might help our listeners to find a deeper understanding of themselves and the way forward.
Thank you so much for listening, and I can't wait to see you again in season two.
If you have a dilemma for Emma, please fill out this form.
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| 0:31.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Emma Reid-Torrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:42.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:46.7 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:50.5 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:55.2 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 0:58.7 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:08.5 | Welcome to this week's Dial Emma, the podcast where we talk about the real, messy, human |
| 1:14.0 | dilemmas that we all face. And I try to answer them with warmth, honesty, and hopefully a little bit |
| 1:20.5 | of therapeutic insight. Well, today's episode is the last for this season. So I thought perhaps I would do my best to tackle more of a theme this week rather than an individual dilemma because there is a theme that has come up so often in your dilemmas over the last few weeks. |
| 1:41.4 | And that is heartbreak. |
| 1:49.4 | In specific terms, it's the kind of heartbreak that lingers far longer than we wanted to. So if you've ever wondered why you still miss someone |
| 1:56.5 | years later, or perhaps you have felt ashamed for not being over it, this episode might be the |
| 2:04.2 | one for you. And the first of our listener dilemmas is all about how come we still think about |
| 2:13.0 | them. Hi, Emma. I really hope you can help. I feel so embarrassed even writing this because I know it sounds |
| 2:21.3 | ridiculous, but I can't stop thinking about my ex, even though they really weren't good for me. |
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