Step Four:

A Trip Back In Time

A walk through your old neighborhood - the streets you walked on as a kid growing up.  A trip back to your hometown.  There's something mysteriously therapeutic about it.  At first there may be feelings of sadness, but these feelings help heal a broken heart.

It works best under these conditions:

  • you live in a larger city now, versus where you were raised
  • your parent(s) or grandparent(s) still live there
  • you make the visit during the summer

It has some (although lesser) effect if:
  • you live in another part of the same city, but rarely get back to the old neighbourhood

Unfortunately, this step won't help if:
  • you still live in the same neighbourhood you grew up in
  • you moved around a lot as a child (especially city to city)

Best Places To See In Your Hometown:

  1. Of course, your old house/street.
  2. Your old elementary school and/or high school.
  3. Your first boyfriend/girlfriend's house.
  4. Your church (if you used to go).
  5. The corner store you bought candy from.

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