Thank You Heartbreak

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At the innocent age of 3, Transformational Healer and Coach, Chelsea Quint, watched her older brother die of a traumatic head injury. Unfortunately, the trauma wouldn’t end there. Joining Chelsea, she opens up about being an incest survivor and how she quickly moved from shock to acceptance when her first abuser—her father—took his own life. Life is very fleeting, she realized, and not just in an existential way but, in the sense that, people do leave the world. Reflecting on what it was like to live through those experiences, Chelsea talks about the significance behind renaming herself, choosing who she wants to be—not as her parent's daughter or her husband's wife but—for herself, the reason her grief is abnormal, the conversation with her younger sister and the question “do you think it was just you?" that brought their shared abuse to light, how child abuse is not a crime of passion or an accident but systematic, and the isolating experience of being told, even in the spaces of healing like

With his engagement deteriorating, artist Kane Goldgell fell for his best friend—his confidant, a woman he had even spent his formative years with. They sounded like a perfect match, the chemistry felt magical and, for the first time, his love felt reciprocated. This rush of the new helped make sense of the falling out with his fiancé, a woman he had loved for a decade. But, when his new girlfriend pulled the plug a few months in and out of nowhere, Kane was devastated. Joining Chelsea 11 minutes in, he opens up about love being like war, where you forge a bond that’s never broken, and draws parallels between love and rage—two emotions that overtake you, that you don’t choose but channel. He talks about human connection being his drug of choice, relationships rooted in trauma, why commonality has nothing to do with love, and the bliss that comes when another makes you feel like you are right just as you are. __To connect with Kane, visit his:Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaneofkanes__Work with Chelsea: www.bre

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Interview begins 13 minutes in. Episode details soon.__To connect with Michael, visit his:Website: https://drmichaelalcee.comBlog: www.adebrucquelivingyourbestlife.comTEDxTarrytown: Introverts, College, and the Mind: Solving Our Mental Health Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkkGPyc3ZmAPsychology Today "Live Life Creatively" Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/live-life-creativelyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMichaelAlcee__Work with Chelsea: www.breakupward.com/shopChelsea’s website: www.breakupward.comSign up for Chelsea’s newsletter: bit.ly/tyhbletterInstagram: www.instagram.com/thankyouheartbreakConnect and send in your questions and/or letters viawww.instagram.com/thankyouheartbreakOr by email: Chelsea@breakupward.com__THE NOW FACTOR!Join me for a complimentary online series, The NOW Factor: How to Quit Waiting for Everything to be Okay, Connect with Your Divine Gifts, and Create a Life of Boldness & Power, and get proven strategies and advice from more than 20 experts

After losing her brother and first child within ten days of each other, writer, encourager and believer Amy Debrucque was overwhelmed with the fear of death. At night, while the rest of the family was sleeping, she'd secretly spiral into anxiety. This went on for 15 years until she was diagnosed with a lifesaving diagnosis, Hodgkin's Lymphoma. For her, this was God’s way of asking whether she was ready to surrender her fears and enjoy her life. Joining Chelsea 14 minutes in, Amy opens up about the difficulty of letting down her boundaries completely during grief, why maintaining boundaries in adult friendships became essential, her commitment to modeling respect with her husband and owning her mistakes in front of her children, why it's better to be imperfect than too proud, and how, more important than finding a partner who is your everything, is having the people on the outside who can support you should you ever both be down. __To connect with Amy, visit her:Website: https://www.amydebrucqu

When Beth Pauvlinch’s mother aka best friend in the whole entire world was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, it took persuasion to convince her to seek treatment. But convince her, Beth did. What resulted was a second cancer diagnosis and a full blown fight—done with a healthy dose of humor—to not leave her daughter behind. Unfortunately, Beth’s mom did pass away. Joining Chelsea 9 minutes in, Beth talks about Two Women 1 Disease, the three year memoir she wrote with her mother as they struggled with life, love, letting go and laughing in the face of cancer. Additionally, she reflects on not seeking support during her grief (and what she chose to do instead), the challenge of being a rock, needing a rock and not wanting to ask for a rock when you are the caretaker, where she found love and purpose after losing her best friend, reconnecting with her estranged father, and being at the forefront of a whole new medium—customized cremation art—so your loved one can be both visible and in motion rather than con

Former sex furniture designer, Brianne McGuire is the podcast host of Sex Communication and the Founder of Graphic Paint, a utopian idea of a platform where people are encouraged to share and express everything about their sexuality without shame or judgment. This isn’t erotica either, this is a place for people to be super filthy. Joining Chelsea 10:30 minutes in, Brianne talks about what blazing this new trial looks and sounds like and how being so explicitly human in her work has created a rift being her mom and her and makes dating challenging. In addition to sex talk, Brianne gets real about the fearless self-awareness and humility that is encouraged in her sobriety, no longer running from the feeling she’s trying to get away from, how desire doesn’t trump depression because depression isn’t a matter of will, why the BDSM world requires more conversations and communication, boundaries and respect, and the healing power of sharing your story and listening to stories.__To connect with Brianne, visit her:We

For the first time ever, eHarmony looked at what singles want out of their dating lives and the qualities and even professions they desire most in potential partners. Joining Chelsea 4:30 minutes in, clinical psychologist, eHarmony writer and author of "Dr. Seth's Love Prescription: Overcome Relationship Repetition Syndrome and Find the Love You Deserve," Dr. Seth Meyers shares their findings for the “Singles & Desirability” study, highlighting that people know deep down what they need and what will make them happy and, yet, will betray their deepest intentions with today’s swiping culture behavior. Rather than lecture you on whether to swipe or toss yourself back out into the pool au naturel, this episode emphasizes how you should be showing up as a human being in the dating world, the most intimate, caring gesture you can extend on a date, how to make your single time work best for you, and the value of cultivating a life and developing yourself.—To connect with Dr. Seth Meyers, visit his

Illustrator Brianna Gilmartin gives the backstory on her autobiographical comics, particularly a recent comic which gained enormous attention and respect and dealt with no longer wanting to carry the weight of her father’s 15 year addiction by holding onto it as if it were her own secret. Joining Chelsea, she talks about the conflicting emotions of denial and guilt which she experienced as a child witnessing her father choose a substance over her every day and yet how she’s outgrown hope for change and cultivated an acceptance toward her life being what it is. With a quiet strength, she answers every pointed question and even indulges in Thank You Heartbreak’s first ever round of rapid fire Reflection Cards by Holstee. Gems to look out for:+ the comfort that comes with knowing others relate to your specific experience+ why your own sense of denial can make you resistant to joining support groups+ using humor to overcompensate for the heaviness of addiction+ what are parents do shape us+ her older siblings see

Clinical and transpersonal psychologist, Dr. Sarah Neustader is the author of the newly released memoir, Love You Like the Sky: Surviving the Suicide of a Beloved. Joining Chelsea 13 minutes in, Sarah talks about navigating grief when you didn’t ask for it, let alone choose suicide yourself, and how she kept the conversation going with her boyfriend when he was now only in the spiritual realm. Ten years later, and no longer at the mercy of her boyfriend’s death, Sarah reflects on the many ways his suicide impacted not only her life but her will to live and credits his death and the blinding, debilitating trauma that is experienced by those left behind for helping her transcend her own suicidal ideations experienced both in her youth and in the wake of his passing. Gems to look out for:+ the hard existential dilemma of wanting to die but knowing you can’t—won’t—do it+ the spiritual side of suicide + dealing with the reality of a person’s suicide when you didn’t see it coming+ the world only gives us what we al

From the window of a conference room in Tokyo, Kelly Jones watched the petals fall from a cherry blossom tree and made a sudden promise to herself: I’m not going to be in this room next year. Joining Chelsea, Scent Sommelier and Founder of Kelly+Jones opens up about quitting the auto-industry, divorcing her college boyfriend after a 13 year heartless, mean marriage, and moving cross country to follow her nose and launch Kelly+Jones, a boutique fragrance brand featuring olfactive experiences inspired by the vineyard and beyond.Gems to look out for:+ a scent is like a time machine triggering the memory of another or a specific moment in our life+ peer pressure from friends to date, have sex, or be somewhere else romantically+ the healing nature of meeting someone and letting it be one chapter+ looking for proof of love and rather than being envious of it, being excited for it+ you’re part of someone when you have sex+ how with age and experience, sex became more sacred+ the transformation from the thrill of cas

After rising to the top and achieving her goal of becoming Head of Communications for a luxury ready-to-wear brand in NYC, Aisha Beau Johnson still felt like something was missing and that she wasn’t where she was meant to be. Her plan? To quit and bet on herself. After getting real on her beauty blog AishaBeau.com about the anxiety she’s suffered since childhood, her bet crystalized and today she’s a go-to guide in the self-care industry. Joining Chelsea, Aisha opens up about choosing the scary path over the dangerous path, both in her career and in her love. “Scary is taking a leap of faith, scary is going off and trying something new, but dangerous is staying in a situation or with a person that doesn’t value you. I decided to take scary over dangerous.” Realizing that danger shrinks you, Aisha also reflects on overcoming the debilitating nature of today’s comparison culture and her own destination addiction—that is, the fantasy that once we get there or have that, we will be a certain person who feels and

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Rabbi and marriage counselor Tod Jacobs and Positive Psychologist and marriage counselor Peter Lyn join Chelsea 9 minutes in to talk about their important new book, Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It RightPulling from data as well as their teachings at The David Robinson Institution, founded by both men in Jerusalem, Tod and Peter are invested in helping the man of today prepare for marriage by focusing both on developing a mature and idealistic vision of marriage as the primary vehicle to create wholeness, meaning, purpose and happiness in their lives, and on working to perfect the character issues that lie at the core of a successful spouse—giving, empathy, focus, staying power and a strong desire to help build the other.__To connect with Tod & Peter, visit their:Website: https://www.notapartnership.comPurchase Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Partnership-Tod-Jacobs-MA/dp/0578448645/

Intuitive Grief Guide and Podcast Host of Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss, Shelby Forsythia is a Certified Recovery Specialist, Grief Coach, and Reiki Practitioner. Joining Chelsea 5:45 minutes in, she opens up about her first memory of having "a voice," how losing her voice is correlated very strongly with heartbreak—–the feeling of hopelessness and losing power——and how her voice returned to her in a new way after losing her mother to cancer, which was her biggest lost to date and an experience that shattered her open, rendered her voiceless, and has now made her a student of grief.Gems to look out for:+ the one fright that doesn't exist for her+ how long it took her to get her voice back+ there's a point where helplessness tilts into surrender+ after heartbreak, the things from the life before return to you in the life after but they don't look the same; they've been taken apart and reassembled+ the first time she registered her voice was coming back+ grief was a

Life for Maria Leonard Olsen, attorney and author of 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, pretty much fell apart as she approached her 50th year. She had drank her way out of a 25-year marriage, found herself completely codependent on her two children, whose trust she had lost due to her alcoholism, was a new empty nester, and was forced to reenter the work force to support herself financially after a 15 year hiatus playing supermom. It was her rudderlessness, however, that incentivized her to change her life for good. And change she did. Now 6 1/2 years sober, Maria opens up with immense honesty about how the various trauma and heartbreaks she endured—recovery from addiction, sexual abuse, divorce, empty nesting, racism, codependency, parental death, and being raised as a latchkey kid—impacted her character and how her call, ultimately, toward sobriety, mentorship, and adventure helped her cultivate an attitude of gratitude, forge new neural pathways, drop the perfectionism shtick, regain he

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"There’s this idea that once you’ve moved on, you should just completely move on and there should be no looking back,” Mika Leonard COO of Onward, a post-breakup concierge service, muses. “But how can we do that when our brains are meant to remember things? That’s part of what's so awesome about life and your experiences, is that you get to have those memories.”Best friends since elementary school, Lindsay Meck (CEO) and Mika Leonard (COO) joined forces to introduce Onward, a post-breakup concierge service, that helps new singletons navigate their relocation, relaunch their life, and remap their future equipped with a home (or room) of their own and financial independence. The warm and fuzzy of this company? Lindsay and Mika's bubbly personalities and the fact that the company is being run in Lindsay’s mother’s legacy, a prior divorce attorney who believed that the on the other side of a challenging situation, there is an opportunity to lead a better life. Joining Chelsea 11:30 minutes in, the