ABSTRACT

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 people in this position learn from their experiences, grow stronger from their suffering, and create healthy and fulfilling relationships.

Kathryn D. 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.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part I|38 pages

Getting Started

chapter Session 1|7 pages

Getting ready to go on this journey

chapter Session 2|7 pages

Love and heartbreak

chapter Session 3|9 pages

Determining your relationship cycle of distress

chapter Session 4|13 pages

Learning about your attachment strategy

part II|54 pages

Going Deeper

chapter Session 5|14 pages

Facing fear

chapter Session 6|14 pages

Riding the waves of anger

chapter Session 7|13 pages

Naming and healing emotional scars

chapter Session 8|11 pages

Processing the enormity of grief and loss

part III|44 pages

Growing Momentum

chapter Session 9|13 pages

Forgiving and letting go

chapter Session 10|9 pages

Trusting yourself (again)

chapter Session 11|12 pages

Building security with others

chapter Session 12|8 pages

Maintaining your momentum