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07 - HEALING FROM HEARTBREAK - The 10 things I learnt in therapy that helped me navigate heartbreak

Healing Honeys (formerly OPENHOUSE with Louise Rumball)

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How to Talk to Your Ex-Partner After a Breakup

My therapist taught me that in the wake of a breakup, humans can experience cravings for their ex-partner. In fact, if you use an MRI scanner to look at the brains of those going through unwanted breakups and you show them a photo of their former partner they light up like drug addicts do. I also thought it was really interesting to understand that when your brain is activated in this way, we're driven as humans to find this object or substance that we're craving. This really helped me understand why from a biological perspective, I was so desperate to contact my ex even though he clearly had no interest in contacting me. Every time I wanted to message him, I would write

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