The Art of Separation: A handbook for your unique journey through break-up and beyond

The Art of Separation offers a radical approach to the experience of separation and divorce. Its central theme is that every major break-up contains the potential for extraordinary personal growth. Exploring some of the key issues that commonly arise in the wake of separation, this concise handbook reveals how to do more than simply survive the experience of break-up - it offers us ways to a more authentic, satisfying life. Whatever the causes and circumstances of the break-up, the end of a major relationship is always a personal crisis. It's a moment of profound change. Our quality of life, starting from the moment of recognition of the end, depends on how we deal with the impact of that crisis. The Art of Separation shows us how to: recover our sense of self as soon as possible establish a new life of clarity and purpose sustain compassion and integrity learn and grow from the experience avoid repeating patterns