S2:E28 How Empty of Me to Be So Full of You

How to Find Yourself After a Relationship Ends: Grieving the Roles, Rituals, and Identity You Lost Host Laura Mangum Broome explores how major relationship losses can leave women grieving not only the person but also the roles, routines, future, and identity built around that connection, quoting “How empty of me to be so full of you” from Louise Hay and David Kessler.  Drawing from five major losses in five years (her teenage son, breast cancer, a heart transplant, her father’s death, and a sudden divorce after 27 years), she explains how women gradually “disappear” through over-giving and lack of boundaries across marriages, friendships, family dynamics, death, and even workplaces, noting that “grief is grief” regardless of the source. She introduces Radical Acceptance, the first phase of her iCope2Hope System, beginning with “face the truth,” and offers three starting points: grieve without a deadline, ask who you were before, and don’t refill the empty space too quickly. 00:00 When You Lose Yourself 01:00 Welcome and Free Resource 01:46 How Empty of Me 03:23 Grief Is Grief 04:04 The Layers You Lose 05:07 How We Disappear 08:00 Grieving the Old You 09:33 Radical Acceptance 10:34 Three Places to Start 13:32 Recap and Closing - **Free Resource:** Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe - **iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework:** https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap - **Website:** iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com - **Move Beyond Adversity Blog:** https://www.icope2hope.com/blog - **Free Newsletter:** Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter - **Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura:** https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB