February 02, 2025

Healing Heartbreak: Step-by-step (evidence-backed) guide

50 minutes

Hi friends, welcome to this weeks episode of Finding Your Casual Magic! ✨

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This week, we’re exploring one of the hardest experiences in life—heartbreak. Whether you’re healing from a breakup, considering one, or just processing loss in a broader sense, this episode is here to be your warm and safe space. 💛

Heartbreak is tough, but what if we could use it as an opportunity for growth? In this deeply personal episode, I share a step-by-step guide to navigating heartbreak in a way that helps you regain your personal power, learn about yourself, and open your heart again when the time is right.

We begin with a grounding meditation (because centering yourself always helps), then dive into:

🌿 Why clarity is the key to healing and how to stop dwelling in “half-breakups”

💔 How to truly feel your feelings instead of suppressing them (no, being busy isn’t always the answer!)

📖 Lessons from We're Not Really Strangers and How to Love Better by Yung Pueblo

🌊 Why breakups are a form of grief—and how to move through it in a healthy way

💡 The power of self-reflection: what narratives and habits are keeping you stuck?

💞 Knowing when you're ready to love again and whether "rebound relationships" are really a bad thing

🔥 The Boy Sober trend, Gen Z’s struggles with dating apps, and why in-person connections feel so hard

⚡ Learning to embrace a “boring love” that actually brings you peace instead of anxiety

And of course, we end with my Casual Magic of the Week—a sweet, unexpected moment of joy—and one from a listener that might just make you smile too. 😊

Some of the insights in today’s episode come from:

Gen Z's Dating Story - Pre and Post Pandemic Trends: https://bit.ly/4jGuYdo

Gen Z is Challenging the way we Date: https://bit.ly/3PYIqf7

Have you Ever Felt Personally Victimised by a Rebound Relationship: https://bit.ly/4ghgoq4

How TikTok's Dark Psychology Trend Rebranded Emotional Manipulation: https://bit.ly/3Cz2SjM

🎧 Find Yung Pueblo’s book How to Love Better here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Love-Better-Connection-Compassion/dp/1846048141

Timestamps:

0:00 - 2:20 - Introduction to Casual Magic & Episode Theme: Heartbreak

2:20 - 4:40 - Grounding Meditation Exercise

4:40 - 8:50 - Step One: Acceptance & Why Clarity is Crucial

8:50 - 15:00 - The Dangers of Half-Breakups & How to Let Go

15:00 - 18:00 - Step Two: Accepting Your Feelings & The Grief Process

18:00 - 24:33 - Finding Healthy Distractions vs. Suppressing Emotions

24:33 - 27:33 - Step Three: Reflection & Identifying Patterns

27:33 - 29:10 - Why Some People Chase "Bad Boys" & What That Says

29:10 - 33:00 - The Importance of Choosing a Love That Feels Peaceful

33:00 - 33.30 - Step Four: Knowing When to Open Your Heart Again

33.30 - 35.20 - The “Boy Sober” Trend & Gen Z’s Relationship Shifts

35.20 - 37.09 - Rebound Culture: Helpful or Harmful?

37.09 - 38.07 - Feeling Lost and Lonely - Don't be Scared

38.07 - 39.23 - Have Gen Z forgotten how to flirt in person?

39.23 - 40.04 - Get Uncomfortable and Go Outside of Your Comfort Zone

40.04 - 42.24 - Rubbish Advice and Dark Femininity

42.24 - 46.06 - Transitioning From Love to Friendship

46:06 - 46:40 - My Casual Magic of the Week 🌿

46:40 - 47:35 - Listener’s Casual Magic Moment! (Seth from Belgium)

47:35 - 50:07 - Journal Reflection & Intentions

💌 Want to share your own moment of magic?

Send a 60-second voice note/video to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram, or email [email protected] with your magical moment. Pics are welcome too!

We’ll pick one a week to share on the podcast so we can all celebrate joy together.

CONTACT ME:

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📸 Instagram: @unjadedjade

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This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade.

🎵 Theme Music by Francesca Lu.

💛 Produced by The Podcast Guys.

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