"A solid first step toward healing.” —Publishers Weekly
Alice Haddon, psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life.
In these warm, welcoming pages, you will meet women of different cultural backgrounds and ages who successfully picked themselves back up to become more confident than ever through the work that Alice and Ruth are doing at the Heartbreak Hotel—a therapy retreat providing intensive care to the heartbroken.
Bursting with compassion, humor, sass, and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat. 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 an abundance of 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 Finding Your Self at The Heartbreak Hotel.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780063289956
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Publication Date: 02-06-2024
Pages: 256
Product Dimensions: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.83d
About the Author
Alice Haddon is a psychologist and psychology lecturer at the University of London. She ran her own busy private practice in London, and her writing has been featured in the Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and HuffPost. After ten years as a lawyer, Ruth Field published three coaching self-help books, including Run Fat Bitch Run, which was the bestselling title in Ireland for twenty-four consecutive weeks and a top-ten Sunday Times bestseller. She ran a much-loved Agony Aunt Grit Doctor column in the Irish Times for five years and her work has appeared in numerous publications and magazines, including the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Irish Times, Irish Tatler, Grazia, and Red. She is a motivational speaker and coach.