How To Know When You're Ready To Date Again

Episode 64 of the The Date with Confidence Podcast podcast, hosted by Rebecca Hawkes, titled "How To Know When You're Ready To Date Again" was published on May 19, 2025 and runs 32 minutes.

May 19, 2025 ·32m · The Date with Confidence Podcast

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Summary

EPISODE 64: How To Know When You're Ready To Date AgainIn 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 dating2. Conscious Dating vs. Dating From Habit: The difference between dating with intention and dating out of boredom or distraction3. Signs You’re Ready to Date Again: What to look for emotionally and mentally before putting yourself out there4. Dating With Standards: Why I no longer believe in giving people “chances” or ignoring red flags5. Using Dating App Discernment: The new approach I take to swiping and filtering matches6. Burned Haystack Dating Method: How learning about rhetorical patterns helped me decode dating profiles more effectively7. Navigating Anxious vs. Avoidant Patterns: Recognising old wounds and shifting into secure dating energy.Improving your dating life with The Standard Is YouThe Standard Is You is a 12-week coaching programme to help you stop feeling behind, raise your standards, and become the love of your life in your 30s. This group programme is for the 30-something who’s done with settling — in dating, in career, in friendships, in everything.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 NewBurned Haystack Dating Method Facebook GroupGet Involved!You can contribute your stories to the Date with Confidence Podcast here. Share your best or worst dating stories, your biggest icks, dating tips you think everyone should know or ask me anything about my dating life or a burning question you need an answer for.  Support The Date with Confidence PodcastIf you'd like to show your support for the podcast, you can do so in these ways:1) Share the podcast with your friends2) Leave me a review on iTunes stating what you love most about the podcast so more people can find it3) Buy me a coffee to express your gratitude for the episodes if you found them helpful, inspiring or entertainingVisit The Date with Confidence website here. Follow Rebecca on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

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.

Improving your dating life with The Standard Is You

The Standard Is You is a 12-week coaching programme to help you stop feeling behind, raise your standards, and become the love of your life in your 30s. This group programme is for the 30-something who’s done with settling — in dating, in career, in friendships, in everything.

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

Get Involved!

You can contribute your stories to the Date with Confidence Podcast here. Share your best or worst dating stories, your biggest icks, dating tips you think everyone should know or ask me anything about my dating life or a burning question you need an answer for.

Support The Date with Confidence Podcast

If you'd like to show your support for the podcast, you can do so in these ways:

1) Share the podcast with your friends

2) Leave me a review on iTunes stating what you love most about the podcast so more people can find it

3) Buy me a coffee to express your gratitude for the episodes if you found them helpful, inspiring or entertaining

Visit The Date with Confidence website here. Follow Rebecca on Instagram.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.