Main description:

Complete with exercises, reflections, and specially selected tasks, this workbook is written for those suffering from heartbreak (and their therapists) to support them in navigating and managing the pain of breakups. The authors help them learn from their experiences, grow stronger from their suffering, and create healthy and fulfilling relationships.

Kathryn Rheem and Clare Rosoman bring their experiences as relationship therapists and devotees of attachment science to offer informed support and encouragement to the broken hearted by providing practical strategies to help readers make sense of and grow from their experiences. Mirroring the therapy process, the book is structured so that readers actively participate in their own healing process with activities that guide their journey session by session. Chapters address attachment strategies, facing fear, riding waves of anger, processing grief and loss, forgiveness, and trusting yourself again. This book will help the reader create a future in which they can know and accept themselves as the perfectly imperfect human they are and create secure bonds with the special people in their life.

This workbook is for people who have experienced the loss of a close relationship and are struggling to heal and move forward in their lives, as well as therapists assisting clients in their recovery from relationship loss.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Forward Introduction Part 1: Getting Started 1. Getting Ready to Go on This Journey 2. Love & Heartbreak 3. Determining your Relationship Cycle of Distress 4. Learning about your Attachment Strategy Part 2: Going Deeper 5. Facing Fear 6.Riding the Waves of Anger 7. Naming & Healing Emotional Scars 8. Processing the Enormity of Grief & Loss Part 3: Growing Momentum 9. Forgiving & Letting Go 10. Trusting Yourself (Again) 11. Building Security with Others 12. Maintaining your Momentum Index