In 2019, right before COVID, my son's father and I called it quits. We had been together five years and built a whole life we thought would last forever. Then one day, it was over.

Nobody really talks about that part. We announce the relationship on Facebook, but we never announce the breakup. The breakup is silent. But there is so much in there, and that is where the real work happens.

In this episode, I get honest about transitioning out of a relationship: grieving the future I had planned, doing the work on myself, and learning how to coparent my son with the same man I was heartbroken over. This one is personal.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the breakup itself is not the hard part, the transition after is, and how to actually do that work
• How I used affirmations to climb out of the dark place where I felt like a failure
• The one mindset shift that turned my ex into my coparenting partner, and made the whole thing easier

Chapters:

• 00:00 This Is Episode Two: Transitioning Relationships
• 00:46 Calling It Quits After Five Years
• 03:10 Waking Up Alone and Doing the Reflection
• 05:15 The Question I Ask Before Dating Again
• 07:17 Grieving the Future You Planned
• 09:17 When a Breakup Shakes Your Identity
• 09:56 Affirmations to Climb Out of the Dark Place
• 12:02 Learning the Coparenting Thing
• 14:26 From Screaming Matches to Real Communication
• 17:12 This Breakup Is Not My Identity
• 19:37 A Single Mom, But Not a Single Parent
• 21:59 Seeing Him as Prince's Father, Not My Ex
• 25:46 Trusting the Process