Christmas for most is a whimsical time full of love, light, laughter, and joy, for many this feels like a time straight out of a movie. However, for many the holidays just add extra stress and pain, luckily there are many people that have come together to try and bridge this gap creating programs like Angel Tree or Operation Christmas Child. This episode I share my experience of donating through the website One Simple Wish, a year round giving program that makes it easy and enjoyable to help/uplift youth and young adults impacted by the foster system. There's a story, wish, a gift, that I'm sure will inspire you to give all you have to do is look. Truly the greatest joy I've experienced this holiday season had nothing to do with what i got and everything to do with what I gave.

(not time sensitive) find your inner Santa:

https://www.onesimplewish.org/wish/wish-grant

This episode is particularly special we have 2 stories in one. The first story will make you question was it manipulation or just a phase, was it betrayal or just being unhealed, was it intentional or just bad communication, and does it actually matter? Is disrespect, coldness, silence, ghosting, distance worse or better when it’s purposeful or accidental, when they put thought into it to hurt you or didn’t keep you in mind at all. The second story is clear manipulation, lies, disrespect and the perfect example of a user. Both entertaining and empowering because these senders stood up for themselves and left although it was hard. Two empowering people and their story before the official holiday episodes!

If you'd like to submit a letter/story of your own check out @dearexonelastthing on instagram

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Today's episode is one I'm sure every single girl alive could relate to, a tale as old as time. You put in all the work into a relationship, you hold a man down, you stay through his worst, so another woman can get his best. You'll see yourself in the senders words and you'll get the healing you need through my pep talks to her. This episode is for the girls that mourn the fairytale ending that never could've been, for the girls waiting on their prince since they dumped the toads.

To be apart of the New Year's edition episode visit the podcast instagram @dearexonelastthing and tap the link in bio!

The perfect long episode for your, warm, cozy, stay-in day this December (or whenever you choose to listen). This episode you'll hear the intensive writing of the an depth look at one man’s transformative journey in which he finds his self love, accepts autonomy over his life, and learns how to pave his life into the one wants. Leaving a woman who he loved, and wanted nothing more than to merge his life hers. He thought his heartbreak would never leave but out of the suffering he emerged as a whole new person. Enemies to lovers arc….but with himself.

A melancholy but soulful Thanksgiving episode for you listeners. This episode, I share a letter to my grandfather who has officially been gone one year. I had no idea what this letter would offer me when I began to write it, however, I chose to finish and share it anyways. The healing I've experienced since has been surprising to say the absolute least. My heart goes out to anyone that's mourning the loss of someone they love, I see you, I'm here for you, thank you for being here for me. If you'd like to submit a letter/story of your own check out @dearexonelastthing on instagram

music by: "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Is the sender wrong for leaving this relationship, you tell me? Many of us relate to the distinctive pain of leaving a partner who didn't necessarily do some big bad thing, but nevertheless it wasn't working anymore. How do you explain to your partner, friends, family, and even yourself why you must leave? How do you explain you're not the same person that you were when you wanted this? Find out in episode four! If you'd like to submit a letter/story of your own check out @dearexonelastthing on instagram

music by: "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Listen to the story of a hypocritical "faith forward" boyfriend. This story will leave you trying to calm yourself every time you realize this is in fact a real story and not rage bait. You'll definitely be rooting for the writer in the end for kicking him to the curb. If you want to submit a letter/story of your own check out @dearexonelastthing on instagram

Dressed in: @namedcollective on instagram

music by: "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Hello Lovebugs, and welcome to Dear Ex: One Last Thing. Todays' episode serves as an intro to how this podcast came about, as well as an introduction to your host (me hehe). Not only is this an intro episode but it's also an episode about transformation, about heartbreak, preservation, and in it I share a letter to my past self, and wish her a goodbye in order to enjoy my life currently and prepare the lifestyle to come.

music by: "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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