Nomalize Calling Off An Engagment with Rebekah Lipsky, LMHC
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Rebekah Lipsky, a therapist specializing in major life transitions, joins us to share her personal experience of calling off her engagement and wedding after a five-and-a-half-year relationship. She delves into the emotional challenges of such decisions, the importance of aligning one's values, and her journey of self-discovery post-breakup. The discussion includes insights on handling grief, the role of supportive friends, and her upcoming support group for women who have called off engagements. Rebecca also offers valuable advice for anyone facing similar life transitions.
Follow Rebekah on Instagram at @reflectwithrebekah and inquire to work with her at www.rebekahlipskycounseling.com/
04:41 - 06:34 Life Transitions and Personal Struggles
06:34 - 09:45 Calling Off her Engagement
09:45 - 15:21 The Emotional Rollercoaster
15:21 - 27:48 Making the Tough Decision
27:48 - 28:24 Facing the Guilt of Canceling a Wedding
28:24 - 29:56 Support from Friends and Family
29:56 - 33:01 Layers of Grief in Breakups
33:01 - 38:14 Supporting Friends Through Breakups
38:14 - 45:10 Rediscovering Yourself After a Breakup
45:10 - 48:39 Navigating Relationship Decisions
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.0 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the dating |
| 0:22.3 | scene together. Okay, you guys, I am so excited for today's episode. This is one that happened |
| 0:28.1 | pretty magically, I will say. I am joined by Rebecca Lipski and her practice, Rebecca Lipski |
| 0:33.5 | counseling is all about focusing on big life transitions and breakups and all the things that |
| 0:39.2 | many of us have been through and will continue to go through. So Rebecca, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you so much. It's good to see you again. Yes, we met at the Harlem train station at a |
| 0:50.7 | 8 a.m. Friday morning. So here we are now. Here we are now. Never expected that to lead |
| 0:58.5 | to this, but I couldn't be happier that it did. And I'm so glad we connected. And I so appreciate |
| 1:03.6 | you coming on to talk about, I think, such an important topic that, listen, we all go through |
| 1:08.8 | life transitions and we all go through like traumatic |
| 1:11.9 | events that kind of shake up our world. And no matter how much someone thinks they know about |
| 1:18.6 | how to go through it, it completely like disrupts everything, every part of our life and |
| 1:23.4 | really flips everything upside down. And so the more we can all talk about it and normalize |
| 1:27.4 | the crazy things that happen to us, the better we all are for it. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:33.3 | So to begin, I would love to hear how you got into being a therapist and what led you |
| 1:42.0 | to doing what you're doing. And I know that's going to open a big can of worms. Yeah, absolutely. So I always like to joke that my desire to become a therapist |
| 1:49.7 | started at age nine. I had a friend in the fourth grade tell me that I should be a therapist |
| 1:56.3 | when I get older because I give great advice. I don't know what I could have possibly been helping |
| 2:01.4 | nine-year-olds with. I was going to say, I wish I knew what you were, like, I can't go high |
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