11/03/2025
15 Breakup Therapist Approved Coping Strategies When You Can’t Stop Crying or Overthinking After a Breakup:
🌤️ Step outside — feel the sun on your pretty little precious face, wind in your hair, and remember your body still belongs to you.
🖊️ Pour every chaotic thought into your journal until your hand aches — then close it like sealing a spell. Try for 10 minutes
📱 Text a beautiful friend send this exactly “ Hey cutie pie it's me your bestie.. so I’m spiraling about (you know who the heartbreaks) anyways can you send me a funny meme?” and let laughter interrupt the pain.
🚿 Take a shower — close your eyeballs and let the water hit your shoulders like a reset button, imagine it washing off everything that isn’t yours to hold.
📺 Put on your comfort show (for me it's a housewives episode and let their drama let you forget your own), wrap yourself in a blanket with a little cozy matcha , and let your nervous system soften.
💧 Drink a full glass of cold water — feel it slide down your throat, bringing you back into your body.
💌 Write a letter to your ex — say everything you never could — then rip it, burn it, or tuck it away as proof of release. 🔥
🌬️ Try the "6-7-6-7" haha jk si###xx sevennnnn
🎧 Cry to your breakup playlist (ugly cry encouraged) — but before you do buy the regular mascara take a picture before send it to your friend then then follow up with an after pic (you'll look like a piece of art like Laurwn Conrad did in 2000 and something
🕊️ Whisper to yourself: “I’m sad girl but fuhhh dat foo" Feel the permission settle in your chest.
🤍 Hug yourself. Literally wrap your arms around your body and breathe — your heart is doing its best.
🍳 Cook, paint, bake chocolate chip cookies , or rearrange your room. Let your hands remind your brain that you can create beauty too.
⏰ Set a 15-minute rumination timer — spiral, cry, scream into a pillow — then cue your favorite feel-good song as your exit ritual.
🌹 Write down one thing you did today that your future self will thank you for — even if it’s “I survived.”
🌙 End the night with a slow exhale, lights dim, cozy blanket, hand on your heart — and whisper, “I’m healing.”
