The Breakup Repair Kit: How to Heal Your Broken Heart

by Marni Kamins, Janice MacLeod

Seasoned dumpers (and dumpees) Marni Kamins and Janice MacLeod offer activities, inspiration, advice, and recipes to heal breakup pains and get over heartbreak. Get over your broken heart, get it together, and get back in the game. Whether it’s your first heartbreak or your latest breakup, getting over an ex is as inevitable as it is painful. Through some surprising methods, authors Kamins and MacLeod teach you how to be happy after a breakup and focus on yourself. In chapters like “The Mourning After” and “Fatigue Fighters,” they advise readers to cry a river and move that body. Best of all, find self-care recipes to mend breakup pains scattered throughout. Getting over an ex and getting a life. No novice to breakup pains, these authors discovered the ultimate way to forget your ex―build a life that is powerful, beautiful, and independent. Regardless if you’re getting dumped or doing the dumping, The Breakup Book is for anyone wondering how to be happy after a breakup. Inside, If you enjoyed books like How to Survive the Loss of a Love , Getting Past Your Breakup , or How to Fix a Broken Heart , then you’ll love The Breakup Book .

165 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jessica Ivetich · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this in a box of free books and decided to give it a go. It’s pretty standard advice + outdated + surprisingly religious. It can for sure help to hear basic reminders when you’re down, but this just didn’t do it for me!

[Aglaea · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one is written in too familiar a tone, when combined with a complete lack of anything even remotely resembling academia to pass for serious advice on how to get on with life after a breakup. I found out that one of the authors is a licenced therapist only after having googled her, so take everything with a grain of salt.

It's like talking to your reasonably clever friend, who has been around for a while and had their fair share of experiences of bad relationships. I don't mind familiarity, cursing etc. when I sense that it's how a person would actually talk, but in this case the effect is that everything gets a bit dumbed down, which is quite unfortunate.

There's already another book on my radar, this time written by a guy, on what he thinks, wants, communicates, leaves unsaid, etc. so onward. Maybe that's the book which will make me crack the code of why men can be so unbelievably difficult to understand, why they say stuff they don't mean at all, have no intention of following through, doggedly shut others out because they can all by themselves, and lord knows what else. Or maybe there's a more mature pool of them which I haven't even found yet.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every woman needs this on her bookshelf. Even if you are in a great relationship. This is like 911 and TLC for your broken heart. This book helped me survive on the wrost breakups in my life. I still build a "nurture nest" when I'm feeling down...even if its not about a breakup. My best description is it like curling up with your best friend that will never tire of you crying and never runs out of tissue.

[Amelia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as "The Dating Repair Kit", but nice. :) Even though I have no direct "use" for this book right now (Frank, I love you! :) ), it reminded me to feel my feelings, and inspired me to stay home and drink lots of water. :P

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

i like this book because it's a mix of funny and serious, and has a spiritual element to it, plus website resources. i should probably read it again....

[Melody · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book and would highly recommend it to any woman who is healing a broken heart and wanting to grow and become stronger as a result of a break up. get yourself ready to meet your true love!