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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Nothing can help the emptiness that eats away your soul after a relationship ends. This book helped me a get a piece of me back that I thought I lost. It was personal, uplifting and a beautiful guide. Absolutely brilliant.
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Summary: In-depth way to really heal relationship pain
Review: This is one of the best self-help books I've seen. It actually takes you through a process by which you can understand what happened in your relationship and get your thoughts and feelings out so you can move on. It makes you dig deep and think hard as you go back to the root of the problems that interfered with your relationship. The poetry used is a nice touch and the exercises very effective in helping one get to the grief that's left when your heart is broken. The technique the authors use could be applied to healing other emotional pains as well.
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Summary: Comments from the Spiritual Reviewer
Review: What this book is about:
Healing a Broken Heart is a guided self-inquiry journal process, where the reader answers questions about self, partner, family, feelings, etc. Healing is thought to be made possible through the reader's full experience of sadness, through the deep examination of thoughts about this relationship and relationship with others, as well as through reconsideration of beliefs and other hangovers from childhood.The authors believe that grief due to loss of a special love relationship is a natural process which is characterized by four periods of introspection and self-awareness. Together these periods comprise a "complete cycle of grieving." The basic idea is to completely immerse self in each season of grief and to accept the loss so that it won't "come up again." Summer = the experience of vacillation: to want or not to want the relationship. Fall = the realization that the relationship is over. Winter = the full experience of deep grief and hopelessness. Spring = the realization that grief is passing and life is not hopeless after all. Cautions to the potential reader:
Over indulging in too much food makes you feel bad. So does overindulging in too much alcohol. Likewise, overindulging in thoughts of loss, hopelessness and misery also make you feel bad. There's a difference in being aware of your own negative thinking and indulging it. Wallowing in misery is not useful or divine, and this book raises wallowing to an art form. We can choose to change the thoughts we have in our mind. This only takes an instant. There is an ever-present temptation to buy into the popular notion that there is some value in experiencing and expressing misery and being supported through that process. But misery does not magically transmute into happiness, and it is happiness you want. The great secret is to focus on what you want, not what you don't want. This book takes the reader down a path that leads to nowhere. The Spiritual Reviewer gives it an overall score of 1.8 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high).
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Summary: Comments from the Spiritual Reviewer
Review: What this book is about:
Healing a Broken Heart is a guided self-inquiry journal process, where the reader answers questions about self, partner, family, feelings, etc. Healing is thought to be made possible through the reader's full experience of sadness, through the deep examination of thoughts about this relationship and relationship with others, as well as through reconsideration of beliefs and other hangovers from childhood. The authors believe that grief due to loss of a special love relationship is a natural process which is characterized by four periods of introspection and self-awareness. Together these periods comprise a "complete cycle of grieving." The basic idea is to completely immerse self in each season of grief and to accept the loss so that it won't "come up again." Summer = the experience of vacillation: to want or not to want the relationship. Fall = the realization that the relationship is over. Winter = the full experience of deep grief and hopelessness. Spring = the realization that grief is passing and life is not hopeless after all. Cautions to the potential reader:
Over indulging in too much food makes you feel bad. So does overindulging in too much alcohol. Likewise, overindulging in thoughts of loss, hopelessness and misery also make you feel bad. There's a difference in being aware of your own negative thinking and indulging it. Wallowing in misery is not useful or divine, and this book raises wallowing to an art form. We can choose to change the thoughts we have in our mind. This only takes an instant. There is an ever-present temptation to buy into the popular notion that there is some value in experiencing and expressing misery and being supported through that process. But misery does not magically transmute into happiness, and it is happiness you want. The great secret is to focus on what you want, not what you don't want. This book takes the reader down a path that leads to nowhere. The Spiritual Reviewer gives it an overall score of 1.8 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high).
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