Thank You Heartbreak

Chelsea responds to "The Girl In A Situation," a listener's letter who describes what she's found while snooping on her new boyfriend's social media. She worries about what it means and how it makes her feel, and Chelsea helps her get to the heart of it. Themes within this episode include: love triangles, not being wild enough, apologizing for yourself, self-sabotaging intimacy by needing to know everything about your partner's past, taking in versus taking on other people's stories, letting past partners be a benchmark for what you must live up to, overcoming judgment, not deleting evidence of your past or diminishing life experiences, eating disorders, being proud of what once was shameful, and how you'll never be sorry for starting.Chelsea also discusses her year with anorexia and...cries. Because this podcast is, in many ways, about rising up with sincerity rather than capsizing in shame, this episode has not been edited but, rather, lets the tears and revelations r