Hard days after a breakup
Some days the pain comes back as if it were the first. These posts are for those days: when you cannot sleep, cannot stop replaying it, or wonder whether you are going crazy. None of them asks you to feel better on command.
Will This Pain Last Forever?
When the pain feels permanent, it helps to see healing as a roller coaster, not a straight line, and to know the small signs that the ride is slowing down.
Are You Going Crazy After Your Breakup?
Hopeful in the morning, back to square one by night. Why the emotional rollercoaster of a breakup is not a sign something is wrong with you, and permission to feel all of it.
Can't Sleep After a Breakup? Your Body Is Trying to Heal
Heartbreak hits your sleep, appetite and energy too. A simple physical first-aid kit of sleep, food and water, and movement for the weeks after a breakup.
Haunted by Your Ex? How to Stop Replaying Conversations in Your Head
Why your mind keeps replaying the breakup and rewriting the ending, and how to stop living in the past and put that energy into your future.
How to Heal When the Future Feels Too Big
When the future feels too big after a breakup, shrink it to today. Kind questions, a simple routine and a worry Post-it for thoughts that won't wait.
Tiny Steps, Big Strength: Finding Your Wins After a Breakup
After a breakup even small tasks feel heavy. How noticing your tiny wins rebuilds your belief in yourself, one small step at a time.
Bad Feelings Are Really Important After a Breakup
Why fighting sadness after a breakup only adds anger, guilt and regret on top of it, and what to do with bad feelings instead.
Heal Your Body to Heal Your Heart
A breakup hits your sleep, your appetite and your energy, not only your feelings. Simple ways to look after all three while your heart heals.
The 3 Mistakes You Shouldn't Make After a Breakup
Turning the pain into a catastrophe, feeling ashamed of it, and letting it decide who you are. Three mistakes that make heartbreak heavier than it has to be.
Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Your Ex
After a breakup your mind goes over and over the relationship looking for a reason. Why it happens, how to calm it, and how meditation helped me.