Date Like You Mean It
The Vibrant Woman’s Guide to Moving On After a Toxic Relationship
You didn’t leave because you were weak.
You left because you realized you deserved better.
This guide is for the woman who is building her life after a toxic relationship.
Thoughtful, self-aware…
and still feels a quiet tightening when she thinks about dating again.
Not because she wants her ex back.
Not because she hasn’t done the work.
But because her body is holding onto memories her mind is trying to let go of.
This isn’t a dating guide that relies on scripts alone.
It’s a guide that gets your mind to stop dragging the past into the present.
What's more important than the words you say is the nervous system state those words come from.
Most healing paths focus on insight.
This one focuses on integration.
So when you date again, you’re not performing confidence.
You’re LIVING it.
You might recognize yourself here
You are capable.
You are intuitive.
You can feel when something is off, even if you second-guess it at times.
On paper, your life works.
Deep down, one interaction with the wrong person can still throw you off for days.
You don’t need to be fixed.
You want collaboration, clarity, and self-trust that holds under pressure.
This guide was written for that version of you...the Vibrant Woman.
Date Like You Mean It
isn’t dating advice.
And it’s not therapy homework.
It’s a holistic, nervous-system–based framework for women who want to date without repeating past patterns.
Inside Date Like You Mean It, you’ll learn how to:
Rebuild self-trust before chemistry clouds your judgment
Calm the nervous system patterns that keep pulling you toward familiar dynamics
Understand how stress, old medications, and gut health quietly affect emotional clarity
Use dating as information, not a reflection of your worth
Spot misalignment early without hypervigilance or self-blame
Why this works when other things didn’t
Talking might have helped you understand, but it doesn't let your body complete stress loops.
Long-term emotional stress, medications, antibiotics, and years of bracing shape how safe connection feels now.
This guide connects the dots between:
your history,
your body,
and the way you relate in real time.
So dating stops feeling like a test you could fail.
Dating is not the reward for healing.
It is one of the ways healing becomes embodied.
When done consciously and with patience, dating becomes a place where you:
notice yourself,
honor your no,
and stop making predictability mean something about you.
That is how patterns dissolve.
After leaving a long-term relationship, I learned that understanding what happened was not the same as feeling free from it.
My body was still holding the patterns long after my mind had reasoned it away, leaving me with health issues.
Through my own healing and years of study in naturopathy, mind-body therapy, and nervous system regulation, I developed a method for helping women move on without rushing or overriding themselves.
Today, I help women rebuild self-trust and embodiment after toxic relationships so dating can feel calm, clear, and grounded again.
— Maura Eliza, Traditional Naturopath and Mind-Body Therapist
What you’ll receive inside
The 7 non-negotiables to ground yourself before dating
A fill-in-the-blank dating profile that reflects who you are now
Nervous-system-aware approaches to flirting and connection
Clear guidance on red flags without fear scanning
Mind-body practices to help your body trust what your intuition already knows
This is not about getting more attention.
It is about becoming unavailable for what no longer fits.
If you’re ready to begin...
You do not need to wait until you feel fearless.
You just need a system that helps your body feel safe enough to move forward.
This is that starting point.
Date Like You Mean It
The Vibrant Woman’s Guide to Moving On After a Toxic Relationship
Testimonials
This is exactly what I needed to start dating after I left my narcissistic ex.
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Therapy was all about my ex. You brought me back to mytself.
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