You Can Tell Me

The Perfect Wife was married for 14 years when she realized she was attracted to women. They had what seemed like the perfect suburban life, including two kids and a nice house. But underneath it all, our guest was not being true to herself. We discuss listening to your inner knowing and trusting that it is okay to be who you are because in the end the right people will always be there to catch you. Survival strategies in this episode include:

• Advocating for yourself and what's best for you
• Finding the people that you feel safe around
• Understand that the past is the past

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Good riddance, 2020! We are breaking up! Host & Producer sit down to discuss what we are breaking up with in order to become better versions of ourselves in 2021. Some survival strategies for the new year include:

• NO TOXIC COMPARISON!
• Being proud of everything you have accomplished (hint: if you survived 2020, this applies to you.)
• Being the main character!

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A Guy's Guy broke up with his girlfriend after realizing his life was in auto-pilot. In this episode, we discuss the trouble men have with being vulnerable and facing their demons, alcholism, and the emotional labor women end up doing in relationships. Send this episode to at least one straight man you know. Survival strategies featured in this episode:

• Be honest with yourself about your own toxic patterns
• Have the courage to seek help
• Don't count on the bottle in front of you to solve your problems

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A Really Special Person wrote her ex a letter when she realized that perhaps he was not as committed to the relationship as she was. She breaks down what she wrote in her letter, and shares some of the strategies she used to cope as she came to the realization that her relationship wasn't going to turn out the way she wanted it to. She also shares her daily mantra: "pain comes from the inability to accept what is." Strategies

• Get out of the routine you created around this person
• Remember the parts of your ex that you actually did not love
• Don't try to move faster than the rate of healing

The One Before The One thought she would be The One… despite the fact that soon into the relationship she realized she wasn't a big fan of his personality… he was just very hot. This guest tells us her journey of coming into her true self post-breakup by determining who she needed to be, and who she needed to surround herself with, in order to heal.

Survival Strategies

• Baking scones (https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/scones-recipe/)
• Distancing yourself from mutual friends who don't have your back
• Establishing a relationship with yourself
• Avoiding Frank Ocean at all costs

Like two ships in the night, A New Yorker in LA found herself moving back and forth across the country for her long-distance boo. The pandemic presented itself as an opportunity for the two of them to finally lay down roots together... until someone who was always lurking in the shadows found her way into the foreground and plans changed. This guest discusses her ex's narcissistic behavior, career jealousy, and all things long-distance in this episode.

Survival strategies featured in this episode:

• A solid support system that you can turn to
• Being honest with yourself and what you are feeling
• Keeping busy

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Three years out from the break-up, Kind of An Intense Person looks back on his experience breaking up with his first love. He goes on to tell us about the importance of being vulnerable with your partner, finding your sense of self after you lost it in a relationship, and revising the narratives of your life so they suit your healing process. And of course, we discuss the final scene of Call Me By Your Name and its direct correlation to healing from a bad split.

Survival strategies featured in this episode:

• Staying busy and keeping your mind occupied
• Going through it, feeling the feelings
• Therapy !!!
• Watching Call Me By Your Name

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After being together for four years, sharing a home together, and having a dog, Resilient Single Dog Mom thought she was in it for the long run. Turns out her boyfriend (now ex-boyfriend) wasn't on the same page. In fact, maybe he was reading a different book entirely.

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