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Eat Ice Cream With A Fork And 49 Others Tips To Help You Feel Better Post Break-Up

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Eat Ice Cream With A Fork And 49 Others Tips To Help You Feel Better Post Break-Up
Elyssa Day

Breakups are hard.

It could be your first and or your twentieth, but either way, it's heart-wrenching! Having been through plenty myself, I've noticed a trend of habits and activities that I take up post-breakup that have helped me cope through it. Maybe my list of "post-breakup feel betters" will help you cope during this time of stress, or maybe it will help you think of activities to add to your own list!

1. Buy a giant $60 area rug

2. Eat ice cream. With a fork

3. Rap all the lyrics to "Alphabet Aerobics" by Blackalicious

4. Why you're at it, learn to rap "Gettin Jiggy Wit It" by Will Smith

5. Lay on your floor and stare at the ceiling

6. Lay on your friend's floor and stare at their ceiling

7. Listen to sad country music

8. Listen to sad Broadway music

9. Listen to empowering Broadway music!

10. Buy that new dress!

11. Pray

12. Pray

13. Pray

14. Take up painting

15. Stare dramatically out of windows

16. Plot out a way to access clock towers

17. Reconsider plotting to access clock towers

18. Take a killer selfie

19. Annnnd a silly one

20. Blast Disney on Pandora

21. "LET IT GOOOOOOOO"

22. Get a new hair cut

23. Go on adventures around your city

24. Make a grownup meal

25. Coloring books!

26. Learn to braid

27. Lay in the grass and stare up at the sky

28. Start a new hobby

29. Practice your old/current hobbies

30. Smash an old vase

31. Buy a plethora of bagels

32. Watch sappy romantic comedies

33. If you need to cry, cry

34. Eat dark chocolate for days

35. Explore your campus

36. Paint your nails!

37. Write letters to family and friends who live across the country

38. Stay awake 'til the wee hours of the morning cleaning your entire apartment

39. Take an afternoon nap

40. Take a bath with the water filled to the tippity-top

41. Speaking of baths, did someone say "bath bombs?"

42. Hug your dog

43. Hug your cat

44. Hug your chicken

45. Call your family

46. Remind yourself your love life isn't over

47. Breathe

48. Smile

49. Laugh

50. Love

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