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It’s over - and it really hurts. But as unbelievable as it may seem when you are in the throes of heartache, you can move past your breakup. Forget about trying to win your ex back. Forget about losing yourself and trying to make this person love you. Forget it! Starting today, this breakup is the best time to change your life for the better, inside and out.

Getting Past Your Breakup is a proven road map for overcoming the painful end of any romantic relationship, even divorce. Through her workshops and popular blog, Susan Elliott has helped thousands of clients and readers transform their love lives. Now she’ll help you put your energy back where it belongs - on you. Her plan includes:

• The rules of disengagement: how and why to go “no contact” with your ex,
• How to work through grief, move past fear, and take back your life,
• The secret to breaking the pattern of failed relationships, and
• What to do when you can’t stop thinking about your ex, texting, calling, checking social networking sites, or driving by the house.

Complete with inspiring stories from real people and strategies to jump-start the moving-on process, Getting Past Your Breakup is the most effective plan for getting permanently past a breakup, getting your confidence back, and opening yourself to true love.

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"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." (Kirkus, starred review)

"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." (Katie Couric)

"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." (Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global)

"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book." (Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet)

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).  

 Looking for a fresh feminist perspective? For women exiting a toxic marriage, make sure this book lands on your radar. Shining a high beam over common cultural misconceptions about love, it might challenge you to reexamine your relationship paradigm and create a fresh blueprint for what you will believe about love–and tolerate–going forward. Enlightening and digestible, make sure you have a highlighter within reach. (Oprah.com List).

 In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protégé of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief. This remarkable book discusses the emotions that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies.

It will also foster awareness and compassion, providing you with the courage to face many other types of losses and challenges, such as saying good-bye to a beloved pet, losing your job, coming to terms with a life-threatening illness or disease, and much more. With a perfect blend of Louise’s teachings and affirmations on personal growth and transformation and David’s many years of working with those in grief, this empowering book will inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking, bringing hope and fresh insights into your life and even your current and future relationships.  (amazon.com)

 This one should be crowned the divorce manual for parents. Ricci combines a sensible groundwork with an exploration of the psychology behind why certain people tend to co-parent more fairly and peacefully than others. Jam-packed with useful checklists, self-assessments and potential scenarios, the author helps shift things into perspective for moms and dads–especially those who may be saturated in competition and resentment for their spouse. (Oprah.com)

 Whether you're contemplating separation or in the thick of finding closure, this book is an invaluable companion to read before getting a divorce. The author hits her readers with fresh insights, helping them expand their view beyond the agony, anger, and resentment they may be battling, in order to get comfortable relying on their own strength. A mosaic of meditations, affirmations, worksheets and guides arouse self-discovery and joy. 

 Who would have thought that writing a letter to your 80 year-old self and mapping out future lifetimes could be the ultimate form of therapy? While this book was written to stimulate the artistically inclined, it’s for everyone in search of the optimization of self. Cameron’s playful exercises are masterful at uncorking one’s self-confidence. So if you’re in search of the encouragement to do all of the things you said you’d have accomplished a decade ago, while restoring your sense of creativity and childlike wonder after divorce, pick this one up and dive into its splendor. 

 When the author’s marriage crumbled, she was pregnant, financially wrecked, and left alone to raise a toddler. And, in this book, she shares every tough lesson she faced along the way. This one is for every mom in need of a best friend to cheer them on and impart their wisdom. Written in a spirit of tough love, the author gives you the sense that she will not settle for less than you treating yourself like a treasure–inspiring your confidence, finances, and priorities to land in order. 

 Sometimes you find yourself stuck in a hallway of indecision. Years of promises and tender moments are shadowed by a swirl of incompatibilities and indiscretions. If you and your spouse are separated and dissolution is knocking at your door but you aren’t sure how to answer, what you seek may be found in these pages. You just might figure out how to follow your heart. 

  Nora Ephron's riveting novel is loosely based on the breakdown of her seemingly "perfect" marriage. A real page turner, it so accurately captures the bewilderment and grief of a woman struggling to process the most gut-punching of betrayals. So for women who feel like the wool has been pulled over their eyes, and especially for those who find comfort in mouth-watering platters of food, you might never feel so understood.