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How to Stop a Broken Heart From Consuming Your Whole Life
You know that feeling when you wake up and for three beautiful seconds, you forget—and then it hits you all over again? The person you thought would be there isn’t. The future you imagined dissolved overnight. And suddenly, checking your phone feels like pressing on a bruise you can’t stop touching.
If you’re reading this with that familiar ache in your chest, I want you to know something: the fact that this hurts so deeply doesn’t mean you loved wrong or chose poorly. It means you loved fully. And now, your heart is asking you to learn a different kind of love—the one you give yourself when everything feels broken.
Today, I’m going to share what renowned psychologist Guy Winch teaches about heartbreak recovery, but filtered through something clinical advice often misses: the truth that healing isn’t linear, and you don’t have to “get over it” to get through it. You just need to stop letting the past consume the present you’re still living.To read more, tap here
