The wisdom of a broken heart: an uncommon guide to healing, insight, and love

Introduction

Try This: Making Friends with Heartbreak

Part 1. Relax

1. How the Light Gets In

2. Nothing Happens

Try This: What Is Going On around Here?

3. Depression versus Sadness

Try This: Include Others

4. Completely Uncool

Try This: Question Your Reality

5. It Is a Dark Night

Try This: Finding Friends in the Dark

6. Making Friends with Heartbreak

Try This: Ninety-Second Clarity Exercise

7. Yes, You Have Lost Your Mind (But It's Okay)

8. How to Meditate

9. If You Accept Pain, It Cannot Hurt You

Try This: Flashes of Meditation

10. Sex Might Help

11. Have Faith

Part 2. See w here You Are

12. Betrayal Stands Alone

Try This: It Never Lasts Long

13. Of the Four Responses, One Is Helpful

14. Act Like a Queen

15. Give Your Demons a Dinner Party

16. Expect Jeannie

17. Become Wrathful

18. Intensify to Let Go

Try This: Intensify, Intensify, Let GO

19. Trump This

20. Mirrors

21. "I Forgive You"

22. Really Unhelpful Things

23. Really Untrue Things

24. Intimacy Is Always there

Part 3. Be Where You Are

25. A Luminous Journey

26. Authenticity

27. The Meaning of All These Tears

28. One Sorry-Ass Bodhisattva Wannabe

29. Tears and Awakening

30. The Practice of Loving-Kindness

31. Loving-Kindness and the One Who Broke Your Heart

32. Turning Off the Projector

Part 4. From Brokenhearted to Wholehearted, Learning to Breathe Again-A Seven-Day Program

33. The Seven-Day Rescue & Relief Program

Afterword

Appendix A. The "I'm About to Totally Freak Out" Checklist of Alternatives

Appendix B. Instructions for Creating a Daily Meditation Practice

Appendix C. Resources

Acknowledgments