This week's question comes from Mollie:
"I am heartbroken and I really hope you can help me with overcoming rejection. I’ve been struggling for years with dating after my divorce and I was about to give up ever finding love again when I met a man online that I thought was “The One.”
I mean this like nothing before. We had so much in common, felt so good together, and we laughed and talked a lot before meeting via text, and on the phone. When we finally met in person it was clear there was great chemistry between us.
We dated exclusively for 3 months and I fell deeply in love with him. Then he started getting weird – not calling for days, being checked out when I
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Topic: Heal Your Heart
5 Strategies For Leaving Emotional Baggage Behind
This week's question comes from Jessica:
"Dear Orna and Matthew,
I want your help leaving my emotional baggage behind! I’ve had lots of issues around relationships and I feel like I can’t help but bring that baggage into my current relationship.
I’m almost 50 and I’m not even sure I want to be married. My boyfriend and I really enjoy each other’s company there are a lot of great things in this relationship.
He’s never been engaged or married, and I’ve been engaged a couple of times in the past but never walked down the aisle. I know I have a lot of energy around marriage and weddings… most of it not so great.
This is my stuff and I explain that to my
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How Long Does It Take To Heal A Broken Heart (From Soulmate Coaches Who Know)
If you are suffering from a broken heart, you may fall into the trap of believing that your feelings of hurt, sadness, or betrayal will never end. If you find yourself wondering exactly how long does it take to heal a broken heart, we’ve laid out the healing journey for you.
Neither of us found love early or easily. We became Love Coaches because we both struggled into our 40s to find lasting love. We both suffered our share of heartbreak and know from personal experience that you can move on from your grief and find soul-satisfying, long-lasting love on the other side.
How long it takes to heal from a broken heart may not be a prescribed timeframe that fits
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Tired Of Being Single? 8 Reasons To Celebrate This Time In Your Life
Are you tired of being single? Feeling frustrated that your guy hasn’t shown up yet, or sick of meeting the wrong man online over and over again?
This isn’t a time to focus on what you don’t have. Instead focus on celebrating you and enjoying this time of your life. So much of life is what you make of it. Why not take this time to step into a bigger vision of yourself and your life? As the saying goes, “There’s no time like the present!”
When you focus on what’s good in your life and use your time to learn and grow, then no matter what happens – you win!
Let’s take a dive into how you can use this time to discover, learn, explore, and celebrate.
8 Reasons to
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How To Feel Good About Yourself And Leave The Past In The Past
It happens to everyone, sometimes in life you just feel stuck. Nothing seems to work and it all feels like it’s your fault or like the world is conspiring against you. It’s like you’re stuck at red light, after red light, after red light. You just wish you knew how to feel good about yourself and your life so you can finally leave the past in the past.
Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can show up any time in your life, but they can be commonplace during a break-up. The problem is, it can be difficult to take action when you feel this way. You end up telling yourself that you’ll do what you need to do when you feel better.
Unfortunately you won’t magically
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5 Skills For How To Heal A Broken Heart And Move On
One of the hardest things you will ever experience in life is a broken heart. You start a relationship with so much hope and yet by the time it is over, that hope is on life-support and you’re curled up into a ball and crying your eyes out. If only you knew how to heal a broken heart and move on.
It seems like each time your heart breaks, it hardens a little as you swear you will never let that happen to you again.
The truth is you can learn how to heal a broken heart and move on, becoming better at love – more vulnerable, more loving, more skilled at making it last – when you decide to learn and grow from the experience instead of being broken by it.
Whether you
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