Ep. 363 - Why did my ex switch up out of nowhere?
How to Get Over Your Ex
How could your ex be completely in love with you one minute and then suddenly act like they want nothing to do with you? If you’ve been replaying your breakup trying to figure out how they could change their mind so fast, you’re not alone in wanting an explanation. But there’s something your brain may be doing with that question that is keeping you stuck far longer than you need to be. In this episode, I’m breaking down what may actually be happening when someone seems to “switch up” out of nowhere, why the ending can feel completely different to the person leaving than the person...
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Ep. 362 - How to get over your affair partner
How to Get Over Your Ex
How do you get over someone you had an affair with for years, especially when part of you still believes you should have left your marriage for them? If you’ve been stuck for months or even years, replaying what happened, regretting your decisions, checking for contact, or begging your ex to take you back, this episode is for you. I’m answering a listener’s deeply personal question about getting over a long-term affair partner, and we’re going straight into the parts of this kind of breakup that can make it feel impossible to let go. There’s a reason these relationships can be so...
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Ep 361 - I want someone to take care of me
How to Get Over Your Ex
There’s a part of you that knows you’re supposed to learn to love yourself, take care of yourself, and build a life you love after a breakup… but what if you don’t WANT to do all of that? What if, underneath all the “I’m independent and I can do it myself” advice, you’re actually thinking, “I don’t want to take care of myself. I want someone to take care of ME.” I get it. I’ve felt that way, and in this episode I’m sharing a personal story that completely changed the way I think about what we’re actually doing when we learn to take care of ourselves after...
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Ep. 360 - The new way to get over your ex (and build your bigger, better life)
How to Get Over Your Ex
If you’ve been wondering “What is actually the best way to get over my ex and build a bigger, better life?” I want to make this really simple for you. I’ve realized I haven’t been nearly direct enough about the new way you can work with me, and after getting question after question from listeners, I knew I needed to explain exactly what I created and who it’s for. In this episode, I’m breaking down the Beyond Your Breakup Membership and why I designed it differently from anything I’ve offered before. Whether you’re secretly hoping your ex comes back, still obsessing even...
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Ep. 359 - Why you still want your ex even when you know you don’t want him back
How to Get Over Your Ex
If you know you don’t want your old relationship back but still can’t get excited about what comes next, there’s a reason: your brain is much more comfortable with what it already knows than a future it has never experienced. Your ex, your old routines, and the life you built together are familiar, while dating again, becoming someone new, or creating a bigger and better life can feel vague, risky, or completely impossible to picture. In this episode, we’re getting into the neuroscience behind manifestation and why your brain can actually reject the very things you say you want simply...
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The Ultimate Comeback Series: What to do at the turning point to have a hockey stick comeback w/ Lindsey Mango
How to Get Over Your Ex
There's a stretch before the comeback even starts that this episode names! The part where you already half-know something's wrong, but you keep it quiet, keep functioning, keep telling yourself it's fine, sometimes for a year or two before the truth actually lands. In this episode, Lindsey Mango joins Dorothy to talk about that exact stretch: the discomfort of sitting on a truth you're not ready to act on yet, and why for her, once that awareness finally clicks, there's no slow unwind — she moves, fast and completely. But what makes this conversation different is what Lindsey does with that...
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Ep. 358 - Why your breakup feels so much worse when you’re burnt out, sick, or sleep deprived
How to Get Over Your Ex
Why does your breakup feel SO much worse when you’re exhausted, burnt out, sick, or running on barely any sleep? You might see one post from your ex, run into him in public, or have one bad interaction and suddenly you’re spiraling—questioning everything, obsessing over what he’s doing, and wondering why you can’t seem to get over him. But what if the problem isn’t that you suddenly miss him more? What if your biology is making your breakup feel harder than it actually is? In this episode, I’m breaking down what happens when you try to process heartbreak from a depleted body and...
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The Ultimate Comeback Series: Choosing your comeback vs being forced into one w/ Whitney Uland
How to Get Over Your Ex
Most comeback stories start with something breaking — a breakup, a diagnosis, a rug pulled out from under you. But there's a much quieter, harder version: choosing to walk into a comeback when nothing forced your hand. No crisis giving you permission, no one around you validating the hard part, no urgency pulling you forward — just you, deciding to become someone different on purpose. In this episode, Whitney Uland joins Dorothy to unpack why a self-chosen reinvention can feel so much slower and more disorienting than one you were thrust into, even though it's supposedly the "easier"...
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Ep. 357 - What is your ultimate comeback?
How to Get Over Your Ex
What if your ultimate comeback isn’t about becoming a completely new person after heartbreak—but finally becoming the most you you’ve ever been? After spending seven episodes talking to women who rebuilt their lives after some of the hardest experiences imaginable, I wanted to step back and ask: what actually makes a comeback happen? In this episode, I break down what I’ve learned from the entire Ultimate Comeback Series and the specific steps I believe take you from the ashes of heartbreak to a life that feels completely different from the one you had before. We’ll talk about the...
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The Ultimate Comeback Series: When you know this isn’t it, but you can’t make the change w/ Leah Brathwaite
How to Get Over Your Ex
There's a specific kind of stuck that isn't about not knowing — you already know something's wrong. What keeps you frozen is the math of what leaving would cost: the people, the identity, the life you've built around the thing that isn't working anymore. In this episode, Leah Brathwaite talks with Dorothy about the years she spent doing exactly that — staying inside a life, a marriage, and a belief system she'd quietly stopped believing in, because the alternative felt like losing everything and everyone at once. She walks through what it actually took to move from "I know this isn't it"...
info_outlineIf you’re navigating the end of a long-term marriage, this episode speaks directly to the grief, identity shifts, and emotional complexity that can come with divorce. You’ll hear about what happens when the future you planned disappears, how heartbreak after marriage carries layers far beyond a typical breakup, and why healing in this season often requires a more nuanced approach.
This episode explores the emotional aftermath of divorce, including rebuilding trust in yourself, untangling the meaning you’ve attached to the end of the relationship, and learning how to move forward without living in bitterness or victimhood.
If you’re struggling with the loss of your marriage, your family dynamic, or the life you thought you’d have, this conversation will remind you that healing and a meaningful future are still available to you, even if this was never the path you would have chosen.
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