How to Mend a Broken Heart [Paperback]

How should we deal with a broken heart, and is it possible to be single and happy? Discover in this optimistic and inspirational guide how to pick yourself up and enjoy being on your own again, so that you can begin to get your life back on the right track.

Nowadays, very few of us remain in the same relationship from eighteen to eighty. This means that upheaval and heartbreak are part of life and may happen several times to all of us. Once you have accepted your loss, you'll be in a good position to find love, and to be loved, again

Christine Webberis a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist with a practice in Harley Street. She has published a total of twelve books, which includeGet the Happiness Habit,How to Mend a Broken HeartandToo Young to Get Old. She has written for a wide range of newspapers includingThe Times, Daily Telegraph andMail on Sunday, and has been a columnist forBBC Parenting,Full House,Best,WomanandTV Times.Currently, she writes forSpectator HealthandNetdoctor.If you have angina, talk to your doctor, but if your heart's broken, you need Christine's wisdom. Carol Cooper

Part I - Accepting It
1 Accepting and understanding your pain
2 Care, support and getting in touch with your own goodness
3 Acknowledging and accepting loss
4 Mixed emotions
5 Blame
6 How goodwasyour relationship?
7 Severing the connection
8 Especially for parents
9 Affairs
10 Good and bad behaviour

Part 2 - Getting over it
11 What youdon'tmiss!
12 What youdomiss
13 Setting the record straight
14 Unhealthy thinking - and how it maintains your misery
15 Professional help to aid your recovery
16 Accentuating the positive

Part 3 - Starting again
17 Embracing your single life
18 A new romance?
19 What to avoid when you start dating again
20 Twenty-first-century dl£‡