My Favorite Books To Heal Yourself After a Toxic Breakup
Advice on How to Move Past Toxic Insecurity to Jump Start 2020
If you are like me, you’ve probably read hundreds of books through the years to help you get past whatever suffering just happened in your life. Whether it is a recommendation by a friend or even your therapist, reading a book and collecting new knowledge can be extremely helpful in the recovery process.
Some books, however, are simply better at helping you contemplate which healing path you need to take after you’ve had a bad breakup. These are the books I’ve turned to through the years and often recommend to my clients.
Best Book to Deal with Overall MAJOR Life Changes
Transitions: Making Sense of Life Changes by William Bridges, Ph.D. is celebrating its 40th year in publication as one of the top 50 self-help books of all times. Dr. Bridges in fact highlights his own career difficulties and how he stumbled on to writing as an example of an unexpected career transition. What I love about this book, however, is that even if you have an unexpected positive life transition coming your way, we all have to grieve. Grieving is the first step for ANY transition and it single handedly takes the pathologizing out of your feelings. This normative and positive approach to handling change…
