Back to the familiar format of a letter from a listener - and this one is another all to common theme.

This week, we hear from Helen.

Helen's story has a bit of everything: financial isolation, the slow unravelling of a long marriage, infidelity, divorce, and a turn none of us saw coming.

It's a story about giving yourself entirely to a life and a person, and discovering how little of it was ever really yours. About the particular cruelty of being deceived by someone whose kindness you fell for. And about what happens when the life you thought you were grieving takes one final, shocking turn.

But more than any of that, it's a story about meeting yourself again. About a woman who lost almost everything she thought defined her, and found, on the other side of it, something quieter and steadier and entirely her own.

If you're rebuilding from a place you never expected to be, this one's for you.

As we always say, if you're having relationship problems, going through a relationship breakup or experiencing heartbreak, then know this: we are with you. Because you can and will survive, heal and thrive.

Everyone who appears on our podcast can take positive steps forward, and so can you.

Listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, and anywhere you get your podcasts. Watch the full episodes on YouTube, too. Head to the socials (search dadhugsforyoursoul) to have your say on every episode. Or visit www.dadhugsforyoursoul/podcasts to comment, submit your quick-fire questions and even your own story.

In this podcast, we see how complicated life can be for everyone. We see that there's always hope. And we see that there's a lesson in every story for our own lives.

Big Hug x

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Today we go back to basics with Harry and ask him some of the most common questions we hear a lot:

- How do you know so much about mid-life women and how did you get to the point of speaking on topics that are relevant to them

- What is Anxious Attachment, how do we become anxiously attached and is it changeable?

- Why go No Contact - does it really work?

- Somatic work: how can this help in heartbreak?

Listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, and anywhere you get your podcasts. Watch the full episode on YouTube Head to the socials (search dadhugsforyoursoul) to have your say on every episode. Or visit www.dadhugsforyoursoul/podcasts to comment, submit your quick-fire questions and even your own story.

If you're interested in the packs mentioned in the podcast, you can find them at https://dadhugsforyoursoul.com/packs

If you're new to the channel or new to Dadhugsforyoursoul, or (how?) new to Harry - then you're very welcome here and, whatever you're going through, you're not going through it alone!

Big hug

x

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**Content warning: This episode includes discussion of economic abuse and a brief, non-graphic reference to domestic violence. Please listen with care and feel free to skip this episode if these topics may be difficult for you.**

Our very difficult discussion this week is anecdotal, via a friend of Harry, and deals with the complicated and painful subject of economic abuse.

There are organisations to help you if you are in this, or a similar position and we urge you to contact them if you can. Here are links to some exceptional services, and you should note that they have quick exit buttons so you can very quickly remove evidence of visiting the websites.

In the UK:

https://survivingeconomicabuse.org/

https://refuge.org.uk/

https://womensaid.org.uk/

In the US:

https://www.thehotline.org/

https://nnedv.org/

As usual, we end with a q&a session and we would welcome

your questions. Do submit them in the

comments or via our website.

Listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer,

and anywhere you get your podcasts. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel. Head to the socials (search

dadhugsforyoursoul) to have your say on every episode. Or visit

www.dadhugsforyoursoul/podcasts to comment, submit your quick-fire questions

and even your own story.

If you're interested in the packs mentioned in the podcast, you

can find them at https://dadhugsforyoursoul.com/packs

In this podcast, we see how complicated life can be for

everyone. We see that there's always hope. And we see that there's a lesson in

every story for our own lives.

Big Hug x

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.