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How to Cope With a Break-Up or Relationship Breakdown

Learn how to heal and cope with your breakup or bounce back from any relationship breakdown.

Going through a breakup with someone you’ve been in a long-term relationship with can give you the same feelings as a loved one dying.

You may experience emotional anguish that’s difficult to overcome.

Do you feel this way?

Although you may be feeling as if your world is falling apart, in time, this difficult experience will pass.

And to help you learn how to cope with your breakup, I’ve provided some helpful and valuable ways you can start healing your heart.

I’m sharing this article because I am a bestselling personal development author with about 2 million books sold globally.

I am also the founder of the therapist recommended online course called Broken Heart Recovery.

I love sharing tools to help people enjoy happy relationships.

With this mind, in this article, I will explore how to cope with a break up and heal from a relationship breakdown.

How to Cope With a Break-Up and Relationship Breakdown

Find out how you can take your life back by reading further.

1. Seek Spiritual Guidance

cope with a break upAre you a spiritual person that believes the universe can guide you in the right direction?

It might be healing to explore a spiritual perspective on the pain you’re feeling. For example you could visit a site like keen.com to explore spiritual guidance about your future.

Sometimes a positive spiritual perspective can help you cope with a breakup more effectively. Especially if you know something exciting is about to change your life.

Intuitive readings can also guide you through your emotions and give you advice on how to better your life. You can gain insight into the lessons a relationship is meant to teach… and get the closure you need to move on. If this intrigues you… check out my Develop Stronger Intuition Course here!

2. Spend Time with Your Loved Ones

The best way to heal from a breakup is by spending time with people who truly care about you. Have coffee with your mom, or go fishing with your dad. Go on more outings with your friends so that you’re not stuck alone at home.

Although you may feel like you want to be alone during this difficult time in your life, it’s best to surround yourself with people. But it’s also important to surround yourself with the right people who can:

  • Give you good advice about happy relationships
  • Provide a different perspective on your situation
  • Help you work through your emotions
  • Provide a safe space for you to open up
  • Comfort you when you’re feeling depressed

If you’re always by yourself, your mind will be focused on the breakup, and it will take longer for you to heal. So start planning events and outings with people who can bring you peace when your mind is chaotic.

3. Take Part in Healthy Distractions

relationship break up breakdownMany people will turn to drugs, alcohol, or sleeping around when they go through a difficult breakup.

These unhealthy distractions will only make you feel worse.

And you won’t fully heal from the torment of breaking up with your partner.

While distractions can help you keep your mind from thinking about the breakup, it’s crucial that you take part in healthier distractions such as:

  • Exercising
  • Learning a new skill
  • Taking up a hobby you enjoy
  • Reading your favorite books
  • Going on a road trip with friends
  • Painting or drawing

You want to take up activities that are wholesome and will boost serotonin and dopamine in your body. What’s more, healthy distractions keep you from thinking about your ex-partner. You’ll then start slowly healing and becoming yourself again.

4. Express Your Emotions

express your emotionsOne of the worse things you can do after a breakup is to suppress your feelings because you don’t want to make people feel uncomfortable.

Keeping your emotions bottled up can cause physical and mental health problems.

You must express yourself whenever you’re feeling the pain of the breakup.

Cry when you need to and open up to someone you can trust.

Another way you can express your emotions is by starting a journal. Write down whatever you’re feeling at the time so you can take control of your symptoms and improve your mood.

5. Stay Away from Negative or Self-Involved People

breaking up with a narcissistBeing around negative people after a breakup can amplify your depression, and you’ll take longer to get over your ex-partner.

Self-involved people won’t care about your feelings, and they may even enjoy seeing you in pain.

If you’re surrounded by negative people, you may even fall into bad habits such as drinking alcohol or taking drugs.

You’ll also become like the people you’re surrounding yourself with, so you’ll become negative.

Instead, surround yourself with people who inspire you and bring balance to your life.

6. Find Yourself Again

be yourself and the right people will love youWhen you’re in a long-term relationship, you tend to stop doing the activities you once enjoyed or even listening to the music you love.

You lose pieces of yourself that you didn’t realize made you who you are.

After a breakup, you won’t know what to do with yourself because you’re used to doing what your partner wanted. Now is the chance for you to find yourself again.

Did you love dancing before? Then take up a dancing class.

Or perhaps you loved to watch certain films that you couldn’t watch before with your partner.

Start by making a list of everything you enjoy and work to incorporate those factors into your life again.

Final Thoughts: How to Cope With a Break Up

There are other ways you can cope with a breakup, such as getting a makeover or meeting new people through friends. But if you want to start with the basics, then use this article to guide you. These tips will help you find your way after a breakup, and you’ll slowly start to find peace again.

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