The Breakup Bible: Your Guide To Survivng Heartbreak

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What's up, Radiant Icons, and welcome back to

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Dare To Be Iconic, the podcast made

for icons daring to be themselves.

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I'm your host, Amanda Paolicelli,

and for today's Tea Time Sesh, we

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are spilling the tea on heartbreak.

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That's right, Radiant Icons.

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Last week, we spoke about friendship

breakups and how to move on and level

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up, and now we're jumping to romantic

breakups because heartbreak may be one of

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the hardest things we have to navigate in

life, but it does not have to break you.

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In fact, heartbreak is one of the

most powerful tools to motivate you

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to change your life for the better.

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And that is what we are

spilling the tea on today.

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But before we get into that,

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It's Amanda Paolicelli.

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the show notes below and also radiant

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And yeah, we're all going to

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So make sure to do that now.

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Let's spill the tea.

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Heartbreak.

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If there is one subject I

think I am qualified on to talk

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about, I think it's heartbreak.

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And I know I did say that for

the reclaiming your narrative

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101, own it or rewrite it.

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I totally, I totally get that.

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Because I also am qualified

to talk about that as well.

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However, if we go all the way back to the

beginning of Dare To Be Iconic, This all

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started because of a letter and a box.

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It all started because of heartbreak

and my choice to choose myself.

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So what were the steps that I took to not

only change my life and embrace my most

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iconic self, but what did I do to heal?

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What did I do to navigate heartbreak?

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Because remember, that letter and a box,

that heartbreak was the first time I was

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experiencing that emotion in my life.

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Well, you know, you could say

I did experience that with my

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prior ex boyfriend, but It's a

different type of heartbreak when

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you get broken up with no closure.

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Okay, so I am taking everything that I

learned from my traumatic breakup and

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i'm spilling the tea- I'm sharing the

breakup bible with you guys your guide

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to navigating heartbreak starts now.

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Are you ready radiant icons because

your tea time sesh is starting now.

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Here's the thing about heartbreak, radiant

icons, and I know a lot of people are

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gonna be like, Oh my god, she never shuts

up about how she got her heart broken

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through a letter in a box and that's how

it started her Dare to be Iconic journey.

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You're right.

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I'm never gonna stop talking about it

because That heartbreak was one of the

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best things to ever happen to me, and I

will stand by that until the day I die.

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And a lot of people are like,

how do you survive and thrive

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after you get your heart broken?

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It's not an easy process.

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Heartbreak is an emotional rollercoaster.

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You are going to go through

the five stages of grief.

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There's denial, there's anger, there's

bargaining, there's depression,

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and then you get to acceptance.

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And when you hit that acceptance

stage, that is how you can survive and

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thrive and live your most iconic life.

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And when I was in the thick of it,

th of: 2022

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see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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I am not even gonna lie to you guys.

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Everyone said you're gonna be fine.

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It's gonna be okay.

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And I knew deep down they were right.

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I knew it.

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But I still couldn't see it.

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I could not see my future because

I was so stuck in what was my

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past at that moment, right?

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Like, let's be for real.

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My past was ripped away from me, but

that's all I could ever focus on.

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I couldn't think of a future without

that other person because I was

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so used to having them in my life.

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And that's hard to navigate, but I

promise you, When we go through the

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five steps of how I healed my broken

heart and started living my most iconic

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life, you too will survive and thrive.

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So the first step in healing

heartbreak in this breakup bible, if

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you will, is accepting your feelings.

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You cannot just suck it up and move on.

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A lot of people are

going to tell you that.

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Like, that's so for real with you guys.

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A lot of people are going to tell

you, oh, just suck it up and move on.

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You're going to be fine.

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You're going to find someone else.

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Okay, like, they may be right.

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In fact, no, you are gonna be okay.

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You are gonna find someone else.

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If you want to.

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If you want to.

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But, That doesn't negate the

feelings that you are going through.

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To just suck it up and move on?

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Absolutely not.

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If you don't accept the feelings

that you are feeling in that moment

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of your heart getting broken, you

will not be able to survive and

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thrive and move on and level up.

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There is just no way.

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If you skip over accepting the feelings

that you are feeling because, yeah,

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it's not fun sitting in depression.

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It's not fun sitting in anger.

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It's not fun sitting in denial.

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I promise you, I know it's not fun,

but you have to accept your feelings.

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Even if you're crying on your

couch watching TikToks like

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I did, you have to accept it.

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You have to sit in it.

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You just have to.

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And in order to cope, if it's

like eating grilled cheese, Or

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maybe some Publix ice cream.

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And yes, I'm naming those examples

because that's exactly what I did

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when I started having an appetite.

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Then that's what you do.

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You have to sit in your feelings.

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You have to acknowledge them.

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And you have to honor them.

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That is the first step you need to

take in order to survive and thrive.

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And I know this may be coming out a

little bit harsh, but I am so passionate

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in this first step, because if there

is anything about that time of going

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through heartbreak that I remember so

vividly is when I was going to work.

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I had worked at a theme park at this point

in my life and I remember my friend group

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at the time, and I remember half of them

were like, Oh, you're going to be fine.

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Just suck it up and move on.

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It's not that big of a deal.

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Don't dismiss my feelings.

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You don't know what I'm going through.

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My life was literally Ripped from me.

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Everything that I thought

I knew was no longer there.

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And then I had some really amazing

friends that I still have today who

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supported me in my healing journey.

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But the first step you have to do is

accept everything that you are feeling.

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Acknowledge it and honor it.

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So again, if that means eating ice cream,

if that means eating grilled cheese, if

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that means going on long walks and crying

and ranting about how much this sucks

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and how annoying it is, you gotta do it.

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I promise you.

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You gotta do it.

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Now step two , you need to

cut that emotional cord.

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Block, ignore, delete.

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I love telling my girlfriends this when

there is a dumb boy in their life, that

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even if it's just a situationship and

that boy is pissing them off, and he's

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just being stupid, because you know what?

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That happens a lot.

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My motto in life?

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Block, ignore, delete.

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Cut that emotional cord.

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You do not need Any reminder of

them in your life, they chose

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to leave your life for a reason,

believe it, you do not need them.

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I promise you, I know in the thick

of it, all you want is that person

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to come back, and you're gonna

bargain, and you're gonna be like,

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but if I do this, but if I do that.

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From someone who was in that place,

it's not going to change anything.

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It's really not, and I'm so sorry that

I have to be the person to tell you

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this, but they're not coming back.

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They chose to leave.

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That was their decision.

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And now you have to live with their

decision, so cut that emotional cord.

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They do not deserve to

have any part of your life.

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They don't even deserve to look at how

well you are doing in life without them.

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They don't get that privilege.

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It's like when Kerry Washington said on

Scandal, Speaking to me is a privilege.

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You do not have privileges.

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That is so true when you

are going through a breakup.

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They do not have the privilege

or opportunity to get to know

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what is going on in your life.

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They left.

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They walked out the door and they said

goodbye, I'm never talking to you again.

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Let them do that.

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Let them leave.

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Cut that emotional cord.

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They don't have the privilege to you.

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They don't have the access to you anymore.

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Block, ignore, delete.

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And also, when we're talking about

cutting this emotional cord, we

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don't want to be stuck in the past.

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We want to fall in love

with our iconic future.

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Now, I don't know what it is when I create

my plans and my guides for you guys, but I

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always end up loving step three the best.

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I don't know what that says about me,

but step three always does it for me.

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And this is no exception.

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So step three is lean

into your support system.

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You need to take note of the

people you surround yourself

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with because it is so telling.

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It truly is because when it comes to

situations like heartbreak or anything

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that's not rainbow and sunshines, that's

who you know, who your real friends are.

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And I know we spoke about friendship

breakups last week on how you need to

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evaluate each friendship in your life, and

that lesson applies right here as well.

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You need to lean into your support

system and take note of the people

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who are actually there for you.

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You need to take note of the people

who actually show up, but also take

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note of the people who like to say

shit when your heart is broken.

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Now I know there was a little va

va voom when I was saying that,

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but matter of the fact is That

is the reality of the situation.

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Some people are just

there for a good time.

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And some people are there

through the thick and the thin.

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Those are the people that you

want to keep in your life.

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Cause it also goes back to, in

last week's episode, we spoke about

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how friends should elevate you.

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They should make you want

to be a better person.

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And when it comes to this case,

right, on how you can survive and

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thrive when you have your heart

broken in a romantic relationship,

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your friends are your support system.

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And if there are friends that are

not showing up for you, if there

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are friends that are not Going

through the trenches with you.

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they are showing you their true colors.

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And I had to learn that the hard way.

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As I mentioned in step one, I was

working at a theme park in this point

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in my life, and I had a really good

group of friends, or what I thought

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were a really good group of friends.

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And there are some friends still to this

day that I speak to who were there for me

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through the thin and the thick of it in

that breakup, they were amazing friends.

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They only knew me for about three

to four weeks at that point,

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because again, it's a seasonal job.

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It's during Halloween.

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And those particular friends, Becs

being one of them, you heard from her

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earlier this season, they barely knew me.

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They knew only a glimpse of my

relationship and those people stuck by me.

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However, there were friends

that did not show up for me.

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That said a lot of shit on how I

was going through this heartbreak.

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How I was processing those emotions.

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They they, uh, very freely spoke their

mind about how everything I was doing

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was wrong and they wouldn't do it.

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Well, guess what?

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You don't have to agree with what I'm

doing, but for you to bad mouth how I am

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healing in a very difficult time in my

life, you don't deserve to be in my life.

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Just like we spoke about in step two,

how you need to cut that emotional

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cord with your ex, you also gotta

cut that emotional cord with the

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friends that are not being supportive.

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If they do not support you when

you are going through heartbreak,

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They do not deserve you when

you are glowing up because This

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heartbreak is not gonna break you.

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It is going to make you stronger

and they don't deserve to be

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there when it makes you stronger.

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They don't get all the perks.

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If they can't be there when

it's not so shiny, they don't

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deserve to be there when it is.

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That is the matter of the fact.

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So you need to lean to the friends

who truly support you because

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your friends, like I mentioned

last week, are your lifeline.

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And I will link that episode in the

show notes below, The Friendship

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Breakup Glow Up moving on and leveling

up, for you guys so you can go back to

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all the references that I'm mentioning

when it comes to this certain step.

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And also, when we're talking about

leaning into a supportive system, that

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doesn't have to just mean your friends.

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It could mean seeking therapy,

if that's of interest to you,

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if that is an option for you.

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Because I also know that therapy is

not accessible to everyone, right?

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It is a privilege, a luxury,

to have access to therapy.

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I'm such a big advocate for therapy.

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It was one of the first things, not even

one of, it was the first thing I did

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after my breakup, after that, that two

months of trying to figure out what was

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going on, at the beginning of the year, in

: 2023

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healing journey, was sign up for therapy.

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And it was really daunting,

it was very overwhelming.

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but it helped me so much.

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It really did transform my life.

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So when we're talking about that

supportive system, it doesn't just have

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to mean your friends and family and

taking note of how others treat you.

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It could mean seeking therapy if

that's an option for you and if that's

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something that you want to do, and if

you want to do it and you're scared

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to do it, I highly, highly encourage

you, Radiant Icons, to check it out.

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There are so many platforms out there,

whether it's in person or virtual.

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I know that I did Talkspace.

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There's also this platform

called BetterHelp.

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Like, there are so many

resources out there.

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I'll link some in the show notes below.

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I may be completely biased, but I

do love me step number four as well.

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So I don't know.

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I know I just said step number three

is probably one of my favorites,

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but I also love step four.

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It's really hard to choose.

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Okay.

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Like it's really hard, but step

four is rediscovering yourself-

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saying yes to the new lease on

life that you have been granted.

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This breakup happened for a reason,

whether we like it or not, it did happen.

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That person is saying goodbye.

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That person is stepping out of your life.

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That relationship is no more for a reason.

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You have to be accepting

of what is going on.

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You need to say yes to life.

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You need to say yes to the

doors that are opening.

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You need to say yes to the new experiences

that are going to happen for you.

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That person left to make room for

something better, for something

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that is more aligned for the

path that you are going down.

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So you need to be open to it.

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You need to be receptive to it.

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You need to say yes.

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This is the time where you get to

be so selfish because when you're in

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relationships, I feel like sometimes

we may lose a sense of ourselves.

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We may prioritize the other

person's needs before our own.

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I know I definitely did that.

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I definitely prioritized my ex's

life before my own at times.

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And I lost a part of myself.

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And during this post breakup time

where I was learning how to survive

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and thrive, I needed to start saying

yes to myself again, I needed to start

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rediscovering what sets my soul on fire.

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What fuels my heart.

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I needed to see what I wanted to do again

because I didn't know who I was after

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the breakup, I was a shell of Amanda.

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So I needed to start small

and build my way up, I need

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to rediscover who Amanda was.

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So I just started saying yes to life.

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I started saying yes to

everything around me.

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I started doing the things that I

used to love doing before I was in

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the relationship that maybe during

the relationship I didn't do.

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An example for me personally

would be I love to go out.

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I love to go out dancing.

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I love to dress up.

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I love to have a good time.

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I love to take pictures.

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That is me.

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That is Amanda to a T.

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And in my relationship

I stopped doing that.

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Maybe I did it every once in a while,

but My ex was more of a homebody.

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He didn't like socializing.

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He was very introverted.

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And like, that's not bad, but

I was definitely diminishing or

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putting aside my wants and needs.

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What I, I wanted to do.

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At that point in my life, like I was

with him for three and a half years.

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Like, That's like half of college almost.

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Like, I didn't go out as much as

maybe I wanted to because I was

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prioritizing what my ex wanted to

do, what he was comfortable with.

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Because again, that's also maybe a

people pleasing tendency of mine.

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But you know what?

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We live and we learn.

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However I took that breakup

as an excuse to be selfish.

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I prioritized my time.

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I prioritized me.

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So the first thing I did is I went

to a party, I dressed up really

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hot, I took some hot TikToks, and

I went out and I shaked my booty.

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That's what I did.

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That's what made me feel Amanda again.

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That's what helps me rediscover who I am.

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So I challenge you, radiant icons, when

you're in this certain step of this

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surviving and thriving from heartbreak

is to rediscover who you are, to

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remember the bad bitch that you are,

to remember the icon that you are.

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Start doing things that you want to do.

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Start doing the things

that you need to do.

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Start falling in love with yourself again.

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Start falling in love with life.

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Start saying yes.

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This is an opportunity for you to take

life by the horns and just go for it.

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So why not do it?

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Now you know we love boundary

setting here at Dare To Be Iconic,

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even if I'm not good at it.

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I do love it.

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So step five, the last and final step

is setting boundaries for healing.

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Now, no contact was forced upon me in

my breakup, but I can say confidently it

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was the best thing to ever happen to me.

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And I know I keep saying the breakup

was the best thing ever happened to me.

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I know, I know, but it was, but in fact,

this boundary that my ex set with me,

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this no contact, actually did help.

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It was actually a genius boundary,

and that is the only thing I

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will ever give him credit for.

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Let's get that clear, and you know what,

I'm not even gonna lie to you guys.

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I did break that boundary with my ex.

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He told me not to contact

him and I did email him.

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I absolutely did because

I wanted closure, right?

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I didn't know what was going on because

I was so blindsided by this breakup.

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So yes, I did break that boundary.

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I did contact him.

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I did leave him an email because

that was the only form of

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communication I could have with him.

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And when he answered back and told

me, absolutely not, you need to

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respect my boundary, I did respect it.

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That was my sign of, okay,

This really, really is over.

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I need to move on.

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I need to keep pushing forward.

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I need to prioritize me.

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So by him setting that boundary with me,

and me being like, Okay, you know what?

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I'm gonna keep that boundary up.

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I actually have no choice.

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I need to respect it.

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I need to move on with my life now.

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Best thing to ever happen to me.

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Because it helped me not to fall

into that trap of, Oh, how you doing?

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Oh, I miss you.

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This and that.

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That a lot of us go through, right?

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When we don't set that firm boundary of

no contact or whatever it is, we end up

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falling into those old habits or patterns

of checking in on our ex because we're so

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used to having them there in our lives.

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That is normal.

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But by setting a boundary so you can

heal and move forward is that last piece

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to the puzzle so you can accept what's

going on so you can thrive and survive.

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We have made it to the dare to be

iconic hotline of today's tea time sesh.

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And these questions are spicy.

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These questions are piping hot.

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In fact, they're boiling.

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So let's spill the tea on them.

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Alright, question one.

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Amanda, I keep wanting

to reach out to my ex.

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How do I stop myself?

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I think my best advice in this scenario

is asking yourself the question, what

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will I gain from reaching out to my ex?

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Like genuinely, what will I gain from it?

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Will it reopen a wound that hasn't been

healed or will I actually get closure?

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And oftentimes distance is

the closure that we need.

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And I had to learn this the hard way, but,

honestly, distance usually is the answer.

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It is better to just cut that cord and go

about your separate ways than reopening

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a wound and feeling great in that moment

and then afterwards feeling like shit.

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So when you are in that stage

of, oh, I really want to reach

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out to them, ask yourself.

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Will this actually help

me in my healing journey?

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And if it's not, if it's just one moment

of satisfaction, and then you're going

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to go down that, that hill of, oh this

actually doesn't feel good, this isn't

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a place that I want to be in, then your

answer should be Distance is what I need.

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I'm not going to reach out to them.

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And that's what I'm going

to challenge you with.

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Question number two.

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Is it normal to still love

someone after they've hurt me?

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Yes, you still can love

someone after your breakup.

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You can still love someone

after they've hurt you.

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I think of it like this.

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This person was in your life for

X amount of months, years, days.

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That is the matter of the fact of it.

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At one point in your life, in that

relationship, You loved or cared for them.

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Obviously, when that relationship

breaks, when it no longer is

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there, those emotions, those

positive emotions, still are there.

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They may be overshadowed by those

negative emotions that you're feeling

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right now, but the love and care

that you had for that person is

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still there, and it's still valid.

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It's still normal to feel that way.

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So yes, I think it's okay to still

love someone after they've hurt you.

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However, in the long run of things

Those feelings most likely will change.

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If it wasn't a messy breakup,

I would say you may love that

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person for the rest of your life.

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I don't have that experience personally.

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I cannot, I cannot say

that is true for me.

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But I do know that is

true for other people.

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Some people are broken up for X amount of

years and it was a very Mutual breakup,

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and they still love that person and

care for that person till this day, even

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though they're living their own separate

lives, and I think that's beautiful.

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I just can't relate to that.

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However, if it's a messy breakup,

and it was one sided, you know, those

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feelings most likely will change.

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I can say from personal experience that

when I first got broken up with by my ex,

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I was with him for three and a half years.

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That two month period before I decided

to change my life, and I was still

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figuring out this healing journey, right?

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I still did love him.

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I still had love for him.

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He was a part of my life.

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I did love him at one point

in my life for years actually.

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Of course, after that breakup, I'm

still going to feel some type of

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emotion for him or towards him.

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Those positive emotions

still will be there.

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Now, far removed, so far removed, a

completely more iconic version of myself.

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Now, I can tell you that

feeling has completely changed.

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I genuinely could care less what my

ex is doing, but that's just me now.

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And maybe that will change.

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Most likely not, but

maybe that will change.

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But what I'm trying to say is that

it's okay to still love someone,

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and it's okay if those emotions

do change later down the line.

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It's okay.

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It's normal.

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It's valid.

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And love isn't a light switch.

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You can't just flip it on and off.

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Love sticks with you.

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Love stays with you, and it's

okay that it's still there.

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It truly is.

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All right, Radiant Icons, that

is your tea time sesh for today.

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I hope you enjoyed today's episode.

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If you did, make sure to subscribe

to leave a reading, a review, a

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comment, to tell your friends about

us, to tell everyone and anyone

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because we love more Radiant Icons

in our iconic community of ours.

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Oh my gosh, Radiant Icons, I truly

cannot believe That next week on March

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27th will be one year since the launch

of the Dare to be Iconic podcast.

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One of the best business decisions I have

ever made was starting this podcast and

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I can't believe We're already on a year.

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So thank you guys for being here

for the Dare to Be Iconic journey.

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The podcast really has allowed me

to connect with you guys in such

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a special and intimate way and I

can't believe you spend every week

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listening to me yap on this mic

and spilled the tea about my life.

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I truly cannot believe

that I get to do this.

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And I just get to do what I love

because of you guys, because you guys

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choose to be on this journey with me.

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And I am just, I'm just so

happy that you're here and a

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part of the Radiant Icon Club.

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I love you guys.

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So thank you.

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Anyways, I'm just so excited for next week

Not only is it the one year anniversary

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of the dare to be iconic podcast, but

next week's tea time sesh is all about

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cultivating Unbreakable confidence how to

truly love yourself as the icon that you

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are because we're in this new era, right?

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We've spoken about the

friendship breakups.

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We've spoken about the romantic breakups.

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We're in an era of new.

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We're in an era of iconicness.

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We're in an era of singleness whether

it's platonically Or romantically,

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we're in this new era, so how do we love

ourselves like the icons that we are

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while we're experiencing all this newness?

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Well, that is what we're spilling the

tea on next week, and we are celebrating,

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so make sure to check out the Dare to

be Iconic and my personal social media

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pages, because there may be a little

surprise coming up as a little thank

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you for changing my life, like truly

you guys have, and I am so, so grateful,

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like I, I can't shut up about it, but

I truly, truly am, I love you guys, I

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will talk to you guys next week, remember

Radiant Icons, dare to be iconic, bye!