Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After

To strive to overcome the limbic-brain-induced impulses to burn the house down, smash all the china, or give his expensive suits away to Goodwill—choosing

every item in your psyche now needs to be sorted through in order to reclaim your autonomy and reinvent your life.

A poorly navigated loss, and its resulting poorly healed heart, can make you a lifelong victim to the darker side of love, and keep you locked into a lesser life with a diminished capacity to love and be loved moving forward.

It is the adult part of you that knows that although life is not always fair, it is fundamentally good to be alive. That when one door closes, another will soon open. That you’re not missing your former love as much as you’re missing the person you thought he or she was. That no matter how much this breakup hurts, it’s best for everyone that the re

Love’s opposite is not hatred, it’s indifference. Hate is just as strong a bond as love, and will quickly make a negative bond of a positive one, keeping us just as tied to our former love as we have ever been.

As someone who is an evolutionary at heart, meaning that I believe in the noble pursuit of consciously making the effort to become a wiser, more enlightened, and more evolved human being in service to helping build wiser, more enlightened, and more evolved human societies, I am ever-fascinated with new and emergent possibilities for loving connecti

A poorly navigated loss, and its resulting poorly healed heart, can make you a lifelong victim to the darker side of love, and keep you locked into a lesser life with a diminished capacity to love and be loved moving forward. There is a movement in the therapeutic community to have Prolonged Grief Disorder, also referred to as Complicated Grief, ad

We even assess the value of our unions based on the length of time we’ve been together, with each milestone anniversary surpassing the previous one in the hierarchy of suggested gifts.

His sorrow cannot help but be compounded by an environment that is a shrine to all that no longer exists, perpetually pulling his attention backwards with little room for new life to emerge.