The Good Bye Book: How To Heal A Broken Heart In 30 Days

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Summary: A great help!
Review: This book really helped me. I found it very difficult to stop myself from reading forward beyond the day's chapter. Sometimes it felt as though the authors new me personally when they were writing. Some things are comforting and other subjects really enlightened me on where I probably went wrong. It's true that the book has several typographical errors, however, the content more than makes up for those mistakes. I am going to read it again, and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A Wonderful Companion
Review: This book really worked! And it was really hard for me to get over my break-up because I WORK WITH THIS JERK!!!! It's not rocket science, it's more of 'get re-acquainted' with the tools you already have and know about!! I did buy some crystals to help with the bad energy and dreams, and that seemed to help also. I finished the book last night, and I have a date with someone new tonight!

Rating:
Summary: very good!
Review: This book really worked! And it was really hard for me to get over my break-up because I WORK WITH THIS JERK!!!! It's not rocket science, it's more of 'get re-acquainted' with the tools you already have and know about!! I did buy some crystals to help with the bad energy and dreams, and that seemed to help also. I finished the book last night, and I have a date with someone new tonight!

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Summary: Wholly Heart
Review: This is the only book that I can wholly endorse for both men and women. For one thing, the cover isn't pink-whoever said you can't judge a book by its cover wasn't scanning shelves for breakup books. Also, it's written by two men so it doesn't have that "you go girl!" tone that one often finds in relationship books written for women (in other words, most relationship books.) The other reason I highly recommend this book to anyone is that it's the only breakup recovery book I know of that is written for any person in the throes of heartbreak, including the person who ended the relationship. Because of this, the book is very balanced and objective, with absolutely no blame-laying or victim-playing rhetoric in any of the thirty short chapters.

Overall, I found How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days extremely pragmatic, organized, and well written. It's sympathetic without being touchy-feely and it's serious without being boring. Good work, Bronson and Riley! You go, guys!

Sample of Suggested Activities:
Clean your office, have a good laugh, have a good cry, make love to strangers (telepathically), exercise, spend a half-hour in a floatation tank, drink hot cocoa at bedtime

Best/Most Useful Line or Advice:
"Did you work too hard to maintain your recent relationship? Bend over backward, swallow your pride, play the doormat to prevent any conflicts?" Wow! How did they know? Wait a minute-did I date one of these guys?

Weirdest/Not At All Useful Line or Advice:
On day 14, Bronson and Riley recommended a two-week checkup to "acknowledge the truth." I don't think they meant that I should go for coffee with my ex, burst into tears, and hurl accusations while nosy Starbucks patrons looked at him like he was the Antichrist-but that's pretty much what I did and, let me tell you, it didn't help much. Two weeks is too soon to schedule an exit interview because the pain is still awfully fresh. I think it's much better to wait and "acknowledge the truth" when the truth is that you no longer give a damn.

This book is great for:
People who have never read a self-help book
Virgos


Rating:
Summary: A Good History
Review: When I was widowed over ten years ago, someone gave me a copy of a little-known book called Early Winter by Howard Bronson and it helped me like nothing else. Several years later, after a terrible divorce, I felt even more devastated, so I looked online to find a copy of that old book, and found How To Heal A Broken Heart completely by surprise. Not only did it help me, but it had so much helpful substance that I desperately needed, and was opened to listening to. Obviously, a goodly portion of this substance must have come from teaming up with Mike Riley. My point is, if you are hurting from a breakup, there is a whole life and world ahead of you, and you can heal. And Bronson has a proven history of writing books that really heal.

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Summary: Bronson's done it again!
Review: Wow, just when I thought he was all washed up, I stumbled onto byebyelove.com after a devastating breakup with my boyfriend. I was skeptical but ready to try anything. The book arrived just seven days later and I read it in two days, and have been turning to it ever since. I didn't realize who the author was, that it was Howard Bronson, the bereavement guy. Bronson is the guy who wrote 'Early Winter' and 'Dog Gone', two very unusual bereavement books. He's a most unusual grief and recovery writer, and somehow, he gets to you like no one else can. Where the heck has he been! This new work is really remarkable in that we get the daily insights from Bronson and then they are complimented by specific daily recovery ideas from his co-author, who I've never heard of. Anyway, this is a good book, if your hurting from a breakup, or divorce, this is pretty effective. Bronson knows what he's doing.