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The First 30 Days After a Breakup

A Practical 30-Day Breakup Recovery Plan for Heartbreak, No Contact, and Starting Again

Narrated byJen TranLength1h 27mChapters11
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The relationship is over. Now what do you actually do tomorrow morning?

The First 30 Days After a Breakup is a practical guide to the part nobody prepares you for: the first month after a relationship ends, when sleep is broken, food feels optional, your phone becomes dangerous, and even ordinary evenings suddenly have no shape.

This is not a promise that you will be “over it” in thirty days. The audiobook follows the period when heartbreak is often at its most intense and when a little structure can make the biggest difference.

You’ll learn:

You do not need to rebuild your entire life this month.

You need to get through today without making tomorrow harder.

The audiobook also includes a practical Relateish companion guide designed to help you work through the first month one stage at a time. It includes the 72-Hour Card, Three Anchors, Question Hour, Whole Story, Weekend Frame, Reclaim List, Four Lessons, Seven Signs, Day Thirty Letter, and a seven-day breakup survival plan.

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Chapters

  1. Opening3:23
  2. Chapter 1: The First Seventy-Two Hours7:44
  3. Chapter 2: What Is Happening to You6:48
  4. Chapter 3: Week One, Stay Upright8:37
  5. Chapter 4: Week Two, the Questions8:53
  6. Chapter 5: Week Three, the Dip9:54
  7. Chapter 6: Week Four, First Steps9:47
  8. Chapter 7: The Hard Moments9:20
  9. Chapter 8: The Six Traps8:29
  10. Chapter 9: Day Thirty and Beyond9:54
  11. Closing2:14

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It has just happened. Or it happened three days ago, or nine, and you are still walking around as though the floor has moved. You have probably told the story a few times by now, and each time it sounds as if it happened to somebody else. You are not hungry, or you are eating standing up at the fridge. You wake at four with your heart going. You pick up your phone to send them something funny and remember, all over again, like being told for the first time. I am not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason, or that you are better off, or that there are plenty more fish in the sea. You have people in your life who will say those things, and they mean well. What you need is someone to tell you what the next few weeks are actually going to be like, and what to do in them. That is what this is. A guide to the first thirty days, in the order they come. I chose thirty days deliberately. Nobody is over a real relationship in a month, and I will not pretend otherwise. But the first month is the part with the steepest drop, the most confusion, and the most chances to make things harder for yourself. It is also the part where a little structure helps most. If you get through these thirty days reasonably well, the months after tend to look after themselves.

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