Hey guys, welcome to Heel, Survive, and Thrive. Today's episode is a little bit of a personal one because I know so many of you have lived this too. I think we all grew up with this idea of what love is supposed to feel like and what it should look like. And then something happens. Someone leaves us. Maybe it's sudden. Maybe it's after a few months of just going back and forth, right?

We're separated.

We're getting divorced.

Nope.

Now we're back together.

We break up.

We come back together.

Maybe it was a narcissistic discard or maybe it was someone who slowly just started falling

out of love with you.

And you were trying to like hold it all together and keep this person.

And after they're gone and you're sitting here and it's quiet and you're alone now and

you're grieving and you're going through all these things, you kind of ask yourself these

questions like, was it real? Did I miss the signs? Was I not enough? Like I don't understand how we even got here. And here's

what I want to tell you. And what this is kind of like what we're going to unpack today too is

there are things about love. I think you can only really learn on the other side of getting your

heart just mashed into the ground. There are truths about

that are really going to kind of like come to the surface after you've been hurt or left or

forced to be alone or forced to rebuild. And sometimes the hard way is the only way that we

really can like come back to ourselves and

learn these important lessons. So in today's episode, I want to walk you through the most

powerful lessons I had to learn about love, about self-worth, and about the kind of relationships

I think we all actually deserve because if you've been left

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