How To Break-Up Well with Nikki Parkinson
02/19/25 • 36 min
Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying over time.
How good would you say you are at breaking up? What feelings does the very thought of a breakup initiate in your body? Are you in the pain of separation right now – at the start, the thick heavy going middle or the time of grief that comes with the spaciousness of the definitive end? How are you holding up? Are you separating as well as you'd like?
In this episode of How Human, we’re looking at How To Break Up Well.
Nikki Parkinson is a Divorce and Separation Doula, Coach, Strategist, Parenting Coordinator, with 30 years of experience in Family Law, she’s spoken at TEDx on these topics but her biggest learning curve was her own divorce. Nikki. During one of the hardest times of our lives, can we go into it - despite all of the hurt - with the goal of doing it well and achieve a wonderful outcome?
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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety
Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying over time.
How good would you say you are at breaking up? What feelings does the very thought of a breakup initiate in your body? Are you in the pain of separation right now – at the start, the thick heavy going middle or the time of grief that comes with the spaciousness of the definitive end? How are you holding up? Are you separating as well as you'd like?
In this episode of How Human, we’re looking at How To Break Up Well.
Nikki Parkinson is a Divorce and Separation Doula, Coach, Strategist, Parenting Coordinator, with 30 years of experience in Family Law, she’s spoken at TEDx on these topics but her biggest learning curve was her own divorce. Nikki. During one of the hardest times of our lives, can we go into it - despite all of the hurt - with the goal of doing it well and achieve a wonderful outcome?
Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:
- Instagram: @melbampton_
- Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'
- Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'
Catch some of Mel's presentations:
The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety
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How To Shift From Feelings Of Abandonment To Being Stoked on Self-Love with Clay MacDonald
How does a small child recover from losing their Mum? Not just survive, full of self-destruction and fear, but learn great joy, even gratitude for the darkness that once was your universe?
How do you come back from the shame of things you once did as a result of that sense of abandonment, to truly love yourself as an equally precious part of the same 'one big organism'?
I first met Clay Macdonald 22 years ago when The Beautiful Girls released their debut album Learn Yourself. Clay was one half of the band’s rhythm section, along with drummer Mitch Connoly and I was presenter of Triple J Drive at the time with Charlie Pickering. There was definitely a certain, let’s say, free spiritedness, that struck a chord with my punk anarchy.
Over the years we’ve popped up in each other’s lives at the most seemingly random but of course, serendipitous times – charity surf comps, in the forest in the Northern Rivers and more recently on a relatively remote beach, several weeks in a row. I became fascinated by the man that Clay had become, living very simply was one part of it, the other was this effervescent, contagious joy that glimmers out of his entire being .
How do you find that in a world that’s geared toward fear, toward self-doubt? How do you take that corrosive poison out of your heart and turn it into self-love? Meditating for two hours every morning, and stopping for 3 consious breaths every 3 hours is part of Clay’s secret, but there was so much more to Clay’s inspiring metamorphosis than I saw coming.
Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:
- Instagram: @melbampton_
- Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'
- Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'
Catch some of Mel's presentations:
The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety
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Ryk Goddard has an extraordinary mind. I met him for 6 minutes in Hobart and I was immediately fascinated by the sophisticated nuances in the way his brain ticked.
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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:
- Instagram: @melbampton_
- Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'
- Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'
Catch some of Mel's presentations:
The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety
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