You can’t move past the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain.

This helpful guide provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionise the way we overcome loss, and seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves.

We know heartbreaks are inevitable. We also know that somehow it is within our power to break free of the suffering and transform pain into meaning. Yet, somewhere between the sad songs, the late-night fixations, and the social media stalking, we get lost.

Alice Haddon, psychologist of over twenty-five years, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life. They also examine how society sets up women to fall into love traps and engage bad habits of self-sacrificing and enabling. With Alice and Ruth’s help, those patterns end forever.

Bursting with compassion, humour and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat that they run. It will teach you how to:

•     face your deepest hurt without shame or judgment
•     ask for help and lean on the collective
•     be kind and forgiving to yourself
•     turn your heartbreak into love and pride

Providing you with a clear pathway to recovery, Alice and Ruth draw on their wealth of professional and personal experience to help you.

A bold compassionate guide for overcoming heartbreak, providing a radical new therapeutic path to reframe grief and revolutionize how we can seek new love and feel whole again. Love and loss are forever intertwined. We know heartbreaks are universal and unavoidable. We also know that it is within our power to transform pain into meaning and strength. But somewhere between the sad songs, the rumination, the pints of ice cream, the social media stalking, and the betrayal, we get lost. Alice Haddon, a psychologist for more than twenty-five years, experienced heartbreak first-hand when she lost her mother. She began questioning whether the traditional therapeutic method built on weekly, fifty-minute, one-on-one sessions was the best approach for people dealing with profound loss. Searching for a better way, she crafted a collective therapy that would provide intensive 24/7 care to the heartbroken, giving them a sacred space and a kind community within which to recover. The goal was to bolster their resilience and build back their wholeness. Her college friend, Ruth Field, an experienced self-help author, who had witnessed and shared plenty of bad breakup discussions with Alice over the years, joined the project, and the Heartbreak Hotel was born. A physical retreat space in the UK, the Heartbreak Hotel gave Alice and Ruth a place and a process in which to transform loss into contentment and power. This remarkable book tells the story of the Heartbreak Hotel and takes us into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat. Bursting with compassion, humor, poignancy, sass, courage, and understanding, it teaches readers of all ages how to: face their deepest hurt ask for help be kind and forgiving to themselves embrace their pain without shame or judgment lean on the collective turn heartbreaks into an abundance of love, strength, and pride. In addition, Ruth and Alice examine how society raises women to fall into love traps and bad habits of self-sacrifice and enabling, and they guide them to live more empowered, vibrant, and richer lives and to find better love in the future.

Demonstrating how schools can reduce conflict and bullying, this title promotes tolerance and stimulates a generally positive attitude to teaching and learning by creating an emotionally literate environment. The text includes: an array of case studies illustrating how different schools have implemented a strategy for emotional literacy; stimulating examples of good practice; practical ideas on how to introduce emotional literacy into schools or other organizations; and sources of additional information.