Living with a Broken Heart

<p>This week&#39;s episode is a tender one. I recorded this on Father&#39;s Day — three years after losing my dad — and I&#39;m reading my Substack essay <em>Living with a Broken Heart</em> and riffing on what it means to keep showing up, keep feeling, and keep choosing love even when it costs you.</p><p><br></p><p>I also make a correction from EP17, share a few quotes that have been sitting with me, and offer some practical tips on how to actually live with a broken heart — not just survive it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In This Episode</strong></p><ul><li><p>A raw check-in: Father&#39;s Day, grief, and why I showed up to record anyway</p></li><li><p>Correction from EP17 (<em>What is Love?</em>) on Ho&#39;oponopono — what it actually is, and why it matters</p></li><li><p>I read my essay: <a href="https://shaungalanos.substack.com/p/living-with-a-broken-heart" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Living with a Broken Heart</a></p></li><li><p>6 tips on how to live with a broken heart</p></li><li><p>I have room for 3 new coaching clients</p><p><br></p></li></ul><p><strong>Quotes</strong></p><p>&quot;God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.&quot; — Hazrat Inayat Khan</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;You have to keep breaking your heart until it stays open.&quot; — attributed to Rumi</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;Maturity happens when we learn to hold ambiguity: emotions that contradict each other, that don&#39;t quite make sense together. So maybe as we grow up, we get better at smiling when we cry, dancing as we grieve, being kind when we lose our shit.&quot; — Max Vallot</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;I haven&#39;t been feeling like myself lately. I must be growing.&quot; — Unknown</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Books Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents</a> — Lindsay C. Gibson</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347852.The_Road_Less_Traveled" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Road Less Traveled</a> — M. Scott Peck</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55384168-no-bad-parts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">No Bad Parts</a> — Richard Schwartz</p><p><br></p></li></ul><p><strong>A Note on Ho&#39;oponopono</strong></p><p>In EP17, I referred to Ho&#39;oponopono as a prayer, meditation, or mantra. That