I am so excited for today's guest and today's episode. Annie Lord is here. She is an author.

She is a dating columnist. And I cannot wait for you guys to hear all about her book,

a notes on heartbreak. I have it right here in my hand. And when I say, like, this book, reading about the breakup

that Annie went through took me back to some of the toughest days of my life and the most

emotional I ever felt going through a breakup. Like, I really have never read such an accurate

description of the feelings that we feel. So Annie,

it is an honor to have you. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks so much for having me.

I'm so excited to chat. Me too. So there's so much that I want to talk to you about. But I want to

start with like, why this book, why now, what made you say, I'm going to turn all of

this pain into something that other people can hold and read and resonate with.

Yeah.

So, well, I figured actually I've written quite a while ago now.

It came out in the UK a few years ago.

But when I, I think it just when I wrote it just felt like I couldn't write about

anything else because you know when you was going through heartbreak it's just so all confusing

that I couldn't think yeah I couldn't think about anything else and I am such a like

journaler and that's how I sort of work out my feelings.

So it kind of felt like writing a big journal and like working out.

As I was writing it, I was really working out how I was feeling about the breakup.

And also I kind of wanted to write it because when I was going through the heartbreak,

I just felt like there wasn't much stuff that was helpful.

Like there was sort of self-help books that were really practical advice,

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