How to Mend a Broken Heart (a healing guide)

How to Mend a Broken Heart is a book for anyone who has had their heart smashed to pieces, or feels betrayed by someone they loved.

This book, written by a woman who was in the midst of heartbreak, recalls how a conversation with her neuroscientist best friend helped her enormously.

Frustrated by unhelpful advice from magazines and rom-coms, she began to delve into proper research, finding that the pain of heartbreak can actually be healed through examining how being betrayed by one you love can affect our sleep to digestion.

Rejection is represented in the brain the same way as physical pain, and is obviously another kind of loss. Learn how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms of moving on from someone who no longer cares for you, and find tips to counteract heartbreak and move on to acceptance.

Apart from grief, there’s nothing that hurts more than being betrayed by someone you thought was your soul-mate. If you envisioned spending a wonderful life together, and doing your bit to change the world, it’s time to move on. With hope and healing.

Talk to anyone who has been betrayed. It is as if something physical has shattered within them; a visceral bewilderment. The disbelief over the fraying of this trust, that is so searing that it ruptures the scaffolding of faith, on which we all stand.

Underneath is all lurks the question of motive. What possessed them to rip a long, close relationship apart? How could they? Tracey O’Shaughnessy

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. It comes from those you trust the most. Anon

Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it’s breaking. The Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz