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Thursday 10 March 2011

Change the Story - Advice for a Broken Heart

When it seems like your story book romance has had an unhappy ending and the one you love has left, you may need some advice for a broken heart. You may not feel like it will ever heal and that the grief you feel is unbearable but be sure that this is something that will go away. Healing a broken heart can take time and effort on your part, but there are some things that can be done and you can do it turning this sad story of loss and failure into a success story. Here are some advice that will help that happen.


Give yourself a chance to mourn or be angry. You need a chance to feel the pain of losing the one you love. There is nothing at all wrong with allowing yourself a chance to feel this way. It is part of the way we are built. We are made with emotions that are helpful and by holding them back or ignoring them; you are only doing yourself harm and missing out on the human experience. The thing that you have to do is to limit that time. You can't spend your life feeling that way, you will have to move on. Give yourself permission to feel this way for a few days, a week, or maybe a little longer and then get about the business of living.

Let go. If there are some things that you need to forgive yourself for, then do it. Don't let it hang over your head. If there are some unresolved issues from the past relationship, then you need to address them. If there is an issue of forgiving the one that left, then go ahead and do it. Don't wait for them to come asking for it because it won't happen. Just let go of it. You can't embrace tomorrow if you are too busy holding yesterday.

Don't go back. There is no benefit to living in the past. You have today and tomorrow and that is all that matters. If you spend your time dwelling on yesterday you very well could be missing out on opportunities that will make your future much brighter than you ever could have imagined. Today has plenty to offer you. Take advantage of it. Spend each day looking for the good things and let the past stay behind you.

Take this as an opportunity to improve something about yourself. Use this as a learning experience. Don't let it be a negative lesson, though. Try to find a positive thing that you can learn. What would you do differently or better if you had it to do all over again? What are some things you wish you had done better? If you had it to do all over again, what would you do differently? What would have made that relationship better? So often we come out of relationships feeling depressed and having taken a hit to our self-esteem. Do things that will help improve self-esteem. Make yourself better.

A break up is the end of a story in a way, but it is better considered the end of a chapter, not the book. The best advice there is for a broken heart is to take the broken and hurting pieces of your life and concentrate on making the rest of your life's story a success and give this tragedy a happy ending.

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