Savvy Girl's Guide to Heartbreak Survival

This episode discusses how betrayal can hollow us out, make us feel empty, lost and without a role to play, or anyway, without the role we used to play as beloved partner. Savvy Girl compares the journey to expanding or relaxing into her new life with the journey Shirley Valentine (1989 film) goes through when discovering that her life has become so small. 

This episode discusses themes that occur later in the healing process. Stage I is full of panic, shock, grief and disbelief. Stage II brings acute, steady pain and rage. Stage III, the stage this episode speaks to, allows an exhale, and sees a Savvy Girl, while still scared and hurt,  willing to glance out her window to begin dreaming of a life larger than the reductive: Savvy Girl who has been betrayed.

Episode Six strips betrayal down to its brittle bones to understand what it is, how to survive it and how to prepare for the hidden losses that may be hidden or less obvious inside betrayal. 

Savvy Girl's podcast is dedicated to helping those who have been betrayed to feel less alone. It offers instruction, humor, solidarity and guidance for all of us in this unlucky club.

This podcast explores some of the He Pig and She Pig's actions and choices including why the He Pig may attempt to hang on to his wife/girlfriend even while fostering his illicit relationship with the She Pig. It also touches on the She Pig's who behave like Bunny Boilers. 

Through two very personal stories, Savvy Girl, with the help of some cheap white wine and her Warriors,  analyzes some of the common reactions exhibited by cheating partner and how the Savvy Girl can gird herself against more pain.

Remember that if you feel despair or completely isolated in the underworld of betrayal, you are not alone. This podcast is dedicated to reaching Savvy Girls and offering pragmatic hope and light.

Savvy Girl tackles the complicated case of a rouge Savvy Girl, Betty Broderick ,to examine the desperation many betrayed people feel when they are diminished and silenced.

If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or feel trapped in a violent domestic situation, please refer to these numbers for help. Remember, you are not alone.
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255
Domestic Violence Hotline: 800 799-7233
Substance Use/mental Health Hotline: 800-622-4357

This episode is all about the Warriors, the girlfriends in our lives that know when to serve the vodka and when to throw it in our face.

Savvy Girl interviews a He Pig (not her own) to understand betrayal from the perspective of the "enemy's camp" how an affair can happen and what goes through the mind of a betrayer.

One of Savvy Girl's intrepid Warriors stops by with wine and guidance on how to sit with grief and accept the soft, vulnerable parts that were most damaged in the wreckage of the betrayal as powerful.