16: Heartbreak: Healing When Your Relationship Ends with Stephanie Macadaan, LMFT
Posted: September 11, 2020
Welcome to a show about how to deal with the end of a relationship. My guest is Stephanie Macadaan, LMFT, who practices in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on couples and individuals who are healing from breakups and starting over. Stephanie runs a support group called Happily Ever After Divorce: Healing Support for Women. This conversation is relevant to almost everyone, because the end of a relationship is a universal experience that most people go through at some point in their lives. Join us now.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Why Stephanie is on a mission to guide people through these difficulties
- Ways this pain and heartbreak can be experienced:
- Conflicting emotions
- Shame and embarrassment
- Uncertainty
- Feeling lost and out of control
- The challenges of a breakup that are unique to women
- Empowering attitudes
- Myths about heartbreak and healing
- How social media pressures us about relationships
- Different stages of healing from breakups (similar to stages of grief)
- Difference between marriage breakups and other relationships
- Stephanie’s approach: a combination of gentleness and pushing them forward’
- Learn lessons from the previous relationship before moving forward
- Dynamics and catalysts through honest eyes
- Self-awareness = Power
- Why Stephanie hates the word “should”
- Words of wisdom: “The end of a relationship is hard to understand unless you’ve been through it. There is great potential to learn more about yourself and create a life that you never thought possible.”
- Why life is a “blank slate”
- Stephanie’s Do’s and Don’ts