Heal Your Broken Heart - Try Something New

It only take three weeks to start a new habit and that means it also only takes three weeks to stop any bad ones. If you are still mooning over your ex and obsessing over every little thing that went wrong - STOP right now!!! It is totally natural to feel heart broken for a long time after a breakup but we have to get up and get the road to feeling well again. It's time to start some new habits, so get out of those ugly old sweatpants and put away the junk food, we are going to mend your broken heart by trying something new!

The very first thing we have to do is put an end to all the terrible habits we are doing now. Are you constantly checking Facebook or Twitter to see what is going on in your ex's life? Are you casually bringing them up in conversations with friends you still share? When our hearts are broken we want our ex to feel the same way, we want them to miss us as much as we miss them. In order to heal our broken hearts we need to make a great effort to break these bad habits. Whenever you are feeling that pull to check online or to bring up your ex, pinch yourself. Not lightly but hard! You can to stop these bad habits by making yourself aware of them.

Now that our arms are all red from pinching ourselves we need to start some new habits to help distract us from the ones we are trying to break. In order to feel good about ourselves again so our first new habit will be to complement ourselves. I know this will feel weird at first but sit down and write 10 things about yourself that are good. Here are some examples to help get you going:

10 things I like about me:

1. I really look good in...
2. I'm also very...
3. My ... really kicks butt!
4. One of my best skills is/are...
5. I have great...
6. I really love my...
7. I'm very...
8. My ... is/are my best feature.
9. I'm really good at...
10. I've very good at...

Now saying it like you mean it (so don't squint your face up when you do it) every morning when you get up you are going to look in the mirror and repeat these 10 things to yourself. The more you say it the more you'll begin to believe it and begin to like yourself again.

Is there something that you have always wanted to try? Cause next we are going to try something new! Is is learning to cook, rock climb, creative writing or running, what it the new thing you want to join? Joining something will help you get your self confidence back and met new people, and you can learn a new skill along the way. These people are going to get to know you as "single" you, not "couple" you.

Trying something new and beginning new habits will give you something else to concentrate on beside what is going on with your ex. Try these 2 things for 3 weeks and see how you begin to feel. Are you thinking about your ex less often? Are you beginning to feel more confident? We are just beginning to retrain how we feel about ourselves and mending our broken heart takes time.