A psychotherapist with 20 years of experience describes step by step how to get over a breakup with a partner and find yourself again.
About what we are most afraid of – about what will happen if we are abandoned and we are left alone, which we did not choose, but to which we were sentenced by circumstances, – writes an American psychotherapist with 20 years of experience. The pain of loss is exacerbated by the fact that it seems to us that we are losing not only the love of our partner, but with it also the meaning of life, position in society, hope for the future, and even ourselves. We fight with both despair and hope that we can still win back if we act “right.” The author invites us to abandon illusions and come to terms with reality. Reconciliation goes through several stages: finding your guilt and blaming your partner, doubting, rethinking the situation and “reclaiming that part of yourself that was enslaved by the relationship or the person with whom you were connected by this relationship. You become yourself again – it is always a joyful event. The special exercises given in chapter 9 help to comprehend and “let go” of relationships that have ended. You can’t say about them that they “do not take much time.” But in the end, they give us back our own lives, saving us from being stuck in the past and giving us the strength to move forward.
AST: Astrel, 189 p.