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Wise Women in Heartbreak
Part 2: The Second 8
Research Question for 22 Women
How do you handle heartbreak?
Their answers varied tremendously. Yet they all (mostly) intersected on the concept of feeling the grief all the way through. Check out Part 1 and Part 3.
Raw & Unedited: The Second 8
8. Kristy
49, Tuscon, Arizona
I let myself drop into my body and lean heavily on practices like yoga, running, dancing to let as much of the sensation move through me without clamping down on it. Allowing all my feelings. And using silly distractions as needed — movies, baby sloth videos on YouTube, etc.
Tools like spring cleaning, swamping, crying, I haven’t had a romantic heartbreak in a long while, so it’s been other kinds of heartbreak that may not need quite the same.
9. Anonymous
40’s, New York City
I don’t think I could handle it so I avoid feeling it.
10. Ana
51, New York, New York and San Francisco, California
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