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Common Myths About Healing Heartbreak That Keep You from Letting Go and Moving On 

https://youtu.be/Vk1NhPpozns   Heartbreak is a spiritual, emotional, cognitive, and physiological crisis—and one of the most painful and disorienting experiences most of us will ever go through. When we lose someone we’ve loved deeply—or even someone we’ve formed a strong attachment to—it can feel like the ground has fallen out from beneath us. We experience a visceral sense of raw emotional [...]

By |2025-06-03T23:06:34-04:00June 3, 2025|0 Comments

Unrequited Love: How to Heal, Let Go and Move On

On Valentine's Day of this year, the Washington Post featured a story about retired U.S. Marine Esteban Perez, who has spent every Valentine's Day standing on a street corner in Nuevo Laredo, hoping to catch a glimpse of the woman he loves, Cecilia. Perez and Cecilia first met in 1996 at a nightclub in Nuevo Laredo, and they dated for [...]

By |2023-06-13T15:33:52-04:00March 25, 2023|0 Comments

Can We Still Be Friends After The Breakup?

Katelynn shared during the introduction to one of my classes that she had been struggling to cope emotionally after a recent breakup. I asked her if she could tell us what brought about the dissolution of the relationship. She told us that significant differences in their needs and values were generating a lot of conflict. Her former partner left on short notice when he was offered a job in California. I asked Katelynn if she was making any effort to keep in touch with him. Katelynn told me that she found it too painful to keep in touch and so she stopped returning his calls. I had Katelynn close her eyes, begin to breathe softly and deeply and bring her former partner to the forefront of her awareness and then tell us how she was feeling. Katelynn said that she was feeling mildly depressed, isolated and numb. Katelynn later shared that she was missing her former partner and that she was experiencing a profound sense of emptiness combined with feelings of sadness and anger. She said that the whole experience left her wondering what she had done wrong.

By |2016-12-08T17:20:39-05:00January 23, 2016|0 Comments
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