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The Happy Times with Joey Kidney

To anyone going through a breakup during the holidays

The Happy Times with Joey Kidney

Joey Kidney

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Personal Journals

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Getting over someone is hard. Getting over someone during the holidays? That’s a whole different kind of heartbreak.

In this episode, I want to sit with you through that. No fake cheer, no “just be grateful” advice. Just real talk about what it feels like to show up to family dinners with a broken heart, to dodge questions about someone you’re still hurting over, and to pretend you’re okay when you’re not.

I’ll walk you through a few things that might help, and one hard truth you might not want to hear—but might need to. This one’s for anyone feeling lonely in a room full of people, anyone who just wants to stay home and cry, and anyone wondering if it’s okay to not feel merry this year.

Because it is. And you’re not alone.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

No matter what season of your love life that you are going through, you can relate to the fact that

0:06.7

breakups during the holidays just hits different. It's just, it's, it's not the same. There's so much

0:14.4

family around, there's so much love, there's so many traditions, there's so many things that we

0:18.2

used to do with people that now we don't see anymore.

0:24.6

That now feels like that memory is tainted because it's holding on to us so tight.

0:30.8

So let's talk about it.

0:32.7

Let's talk about the emotions and the breakup phase, kind of that we feel that we go through through the holidays

0:39.3

it's exhausting but first i want to say hello i'm back baby if you don't know this is this is the

0:47.9

first time you're listening i took a little break because i had a baby oh i didn't have a baby

0:50.9

my beautiful partner had a baby and we're doing doing so, so well. Our baby's name is

0:55.8

Bowen. And I took a little time off because I just wanted to be with him. And I'm not going to lie to you.

1:02.3

I wasn't getting any sleep. So doing a podcast, even now, I'm like, how do I do this? I kind of forget.

1:08.4

So give me some grace.

1:12.0

Allow me to adjust.

1:28.1

Allow me to mess up. As you know, there's no script with this podcast. We sit here. We talk like we're best friends. Like this is just a real moment because this is what it is. Now I do want to give a disclaimer. I haven't been through a breakup in six years. but I've been making content and I've been DMing and helping people

1:29.9

and doing one-on-one consultations I haven't been through a breakup in six years, but I've been making content and I've been

1:28.7

DMing and helping people and doing one-on-one consultations with people and running groups

1:34.0

that can help people through breakups and manage their emotions.

1:37.7

It's not always a breakup.

1:39.1

People think that, you know, just because you get your heartbroken, that's when we need help

1:42.4

with breakups.

1:42.9

But a lot of times it's with friends, it's with jobs, it's with family members,

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