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How To Know When You're Ready To Date Again
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EPISODE 64: How To Know When You're Ready To Date Again
In this episode of The Date with Confidence Podcast, I open up about the grief, healing, and realisations that shaped my decision to return to dating after a tough year.
After losing two grandparents within weeks of each other and navigating the fallout of a painful dating experience, I took a long, conscious break. Now, I'm back—dating with intention, clarity, and a renewed sense of what I truly want.
If you’re wondering whether it’s time to get back out there, I’m sharing the signs, mindset shifts, and standards that helped me know I was ready.
Here’s what we discuss:
1. Dating After Grief: How loss and healing shifted my priorities and energy around dating
2. Conscious Dating vs. Dating From Habit: The difference between dating with intention and dating out of boredom or distraction
3. Signs You’re Ready to Date Again: What to look for emotionally and mentally before putting yourself out there
4. Dating With Standards: Why I no longer believe in giving people “chances” or ignoring red flags
5. Using Dating App Discernment: The new approach I take to swiping and filtering matches
6. Burned Haystack Dating Method: How learning about rhetorical patterns helped me decode dating profiles more effectively
7. Navigating Anxious vs. Avoidant Patterns: Recognising old wounds and shifting into secure dating energy.
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If you're done with dating Chads who ask for photos before you've met, ghost you after a week, put in zero effort to actually get to know you and think that inviting you to dinner at their place is an appropriate first date, this is for you.
Mentioned:
How to Overcome Anxious Attachment When Dating Someone New
Burned Haystack Dating Method Facebook Group
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