Breakup coaching with a clear next step.
How to Get Over Your Ex is a breakup recovery show with Dorothy, the host and breakup coach, bringing a direct, emotionally validating style. Episodes move between solo frameworks and guest conversations, translating heartbreak into practical steps like reducing desire, naming stages, and rebuilding daily life.
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How to Get Over Your Ex sits squarely in breakup recovery, but its engine is structured coaching rather than vague comfort. Dorothy speaks to heartbreak as an active process with stages, remedies, and repeatable tools. The show has a high-energy, emotionally close rhythm. It moves quickly, but it keeps circling back to the core feeling until the lesson lands. Recent episodes focus heavily on why someone can logically know an ex is wrong and still feel pulled toward them. Dorothy frames that pull through desire, attachment, longing, and reward loops. The RDA process becomes a recurring answer: reduce desire and attachment until contact, memories, or the idea of the ex no longer carry the same charge. The four stages of heartbreak give the show another organizing map. Devastated, high functioning avoidant, and free from your ex are treated as recognizable states, not personal failures. Biology baseline adds a grounded layer, especially when exhaustion, stress, or parenting demands intensify emotional reactions. Guest conversations widen the frame. Lauren’s story uses a 22-year marriage to show how a list of factually true, less romanticized details can shift attachment. Jamie Berman brings manifestation, money, business, and romantic partnership into the breakup conversation. Kirsten Sarfati connects breakup distress with binge eating, restriction, food rules, and emotional control. New-year episodes push beyond the ex toward intentions, fear, personal expansion, and a bigger and better life. The show can be repetitive in a deliberate way. It names the ache, gives it a structure, then turns that structure into homework. Its best fit is a listener who wants warmth, momentum, and specific mental tools while moving through heartbreak.
Made for: Best for people recovering from a breakup, divorce, or lingering attachment who want emotionally warm guidance with practical coaching language. It especially suits listeners who feel outwardly functional but internally stuck.
What sets it apart: The show turns breakup emotions into named frameworks, then tests those frameworks against real stories and guest conversations. Its blend of urgency, validation, and concrete attachment work gives it a more coached feel than a general relationship advice show.
Breakup coach Dorothy, outlines the steps to get over your ex without it "just taking time".She has combined her background in psychology with her life coach certification tools to provide actionable insights so that you're not only learning the why but you're learning the HOW to getting over your ex.Note: Dorothy utilizes the "he" pronoun when talking about her ex but this work can be applied to anyone. All genders and sexual orientations are encouraged to listen and apply the tools.Loving the How to Get Over Your Ex podcast? Grab your free masterclass "How to FAST FORWARD getting over your ex - without spending months (or years) feeling angry, jealous or unlovable" where you'll learn 3 min…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dorothy turns breakup distress into identifiable stages, practical exercises, and candid conversations about the habits that keep attachment alive.
Dorothy treats heartbreak as a problem that can be worked through deliberately. How to Get Over Your Ex moves between solo instruction and conversations with guests or former clients, using their experiences to make emotional patterns easier to recognize.
Heartbreak gets a four-stage map, because "just give it time" is not Dorothy's kind of advice.
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Dorothy gives a clear framework for the attachment pull behind wanting an ex who may not be right.
Episode 336 sits with a familiar breakup contradiction: a person can know the reasons to leave and still want the ex. Dorothy, a breakup coach, frames that pull in two ways. One is the unhealthy ex who triggers what she describes as a chemical-like reward loop.
A long marriage, a quick heartbreak framework, and a concrete exercise for loosening attachment.
Lauren frames the end of a 22-year marriage through Dorothy's four-stage heartbreak coaching, but the episode works best when it gets specific. Its clearest idea is the ice-cream analogy: desire can change when a cherished image is replaced with another true description.
A clear, practical guide to recognizing a heartbreak stage and deciding what needs attention next.
Heartbreak is treated as a recovery problem with a practical first step: work out where things stand, then choose the right response. Breakup coach Dorothy separates acute devastation, when sleep, appetite, and concentration may unravel, from a more composed stage in which…
A breakup coach and binge eating coach unpack how heartbreak can tighten food rules, and how permission can loosen them.
Breakups can turn food into a proxy for control, and this episode follows that pressure through a focused conversation between breakup coach Dorothy and binge eating coach Kirsten Sarfati.
A fervent breakup pep talk about feeling fear, choosing expansion, and moving toward a bigger life.
"2026 is our year" frames a breakup-coaching installment as a call to expand beyond the life an old relationship left behind. Dorothy, the show's host and breakup coach, talks through taking a frightening step, drawing courage from a client's example, and watching her own life…
A grounded breakup conversation about sitting with the funk before pushing toward a way forward.
Breakup coach Dorothy and Dana Evans dig into a stuck place many breakup listeners will recognize: months of trying to think differently while still moving through hopelessness, discouragement, resentment, and a mood that is hard to name.
A warm two-year check-in on how breakup work can keep shaping everyday courage.
Two years after Dorothy's Get Over Your Ex program, Alea returns for a candid check-in on what has actually stayed with her. The episode tracks a shift from her earlier nerves about appearing on the podcast into a wider conversation about choosing scary things, stepping away…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Care, culture, and the choices shaping Black women's lives.
Root-cause health, explained plainly.
Hope, tested in real conversation.
Alea returns two years after the Get Over Your Ex program to reveal how she went from abandoned to thriving.
Breakup coach Dorothy and emotional coach Dana Evans debate when to feel your feelings or shift perspective after a breakup.
Breakup coach Dorothy discusses how focusing on yourself rather than your ex is a sign of progress in getting over a breakup.
Breakup Coach Dorothy addresses why someone can still want an ex while knowing they do not want him back.
Breakup coach Dorothy discusses why you still want your ex even when you know they're not right for you, offering a safe space to explore both moving on and the desire to reunite.
Lauren says her husband ended a 22-year marriage just before their 21st wedding anniversary, and Dorothy opens episode 335 of How to Get Over Your Ex around that shock.
Episode 334 of How to Get Over Your Ex is titled "The remedy for every stage of heartbreak" and maps three remedies to four breakup stages.
Breakup coach Dorothy teaches the four stages of heartbreak, distinct from the seven stages of grief, to help listeners navigate and self-diagnose their breakup recovery.
Breakup coach Dorothy introduces manifestation expert Jamie Berman to discuss manifesting breakups and money.
Dorothy interviews Kirsten Sarfati on How to Get Over Your Ex, episode 326, after introducing her as “Coach Kerr” and a binge-eating coach.
Breakup coach Dorothy shares her three main intentions for the new year and invites listeners to submit questions for future episodes.
Dorothy, breakup coach and host of How to Get Over Your Ex episode 322, frames "2026 is our year" around her own fear, her clients' results, and her offer stack.
Breakup coach Dorothy discusses how to feel safe enough to move on after a breakup, drawing from a Q&A session with her program cohort.
Breakup coach Dorothy discusses the importance of rediscovering your identity after a breakup to build a fulfilling life.
Breakup coach Dorothy interviews Alea, a former program participant, about her journey from heartbreak to thriving two years later, including solo travel and personal growth.