Must-Reads: Post-Breakup Books that Will Change Your Life
By Patia Braithwaite for BounceBack.com
Okay, perhaps "change your life," is a bit too dramatic, but - let's face it -- books are powerful. Those collections of words and thoughts can help us find answers (or, at the very least, better questions). Whether it's for you or someone you know, here are a few great books to help us answer old relationship questions and (possibly) ask new ones:
The Power of Now & A New Earth
By Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is Oprah's right-hand man, but don't let that dissuade your from reading his works. One particularly difficult night, after contemplating suicide, Tolle hears a voice say "I can't live with myself." This sets him on a journey to figure out the differences between the person he is, and the person who cannot live with him. As you delve into the Power of Now & A New Earth, you begin to unravel the way our minds work against us and uncover the beauty beneath it.
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The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
By Gary Chapman
Surprisingly, not everyone speaks the same language when it comes to love -- what some people perceive as love others don't. The five Love Languages can help us identify our relationship needs. If we understand the ways that we perceive and respond to love, we will be much more prepared when it's time to get back out there.
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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
By Osho
What is love? How can we learn to be fully ourselves? In Love, Freedom and Aloneness, Osho gives us insight into the complex nature of our relationships and how these interactions with others are a reflection of ourselves. Part of bouncing back is understanding ourselves in all of our depth and complexity. Reading this book can allow us to touch that parts of ourselves that we often prefer to ignore.
Related: Love Yourself Before Loving Another
Eat, Pray Love & Committed
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert bares her soul in Eat, Pray, Love and (almost) anyone who has been through a devastating breakup knows that the phases of healing often involve drastic change, decadent food and some form of introspection. Though, eating in Italy is the best part of the book (Bali drags a bit), Eat, Pray, Love is such an honest book - it will probably move you to tears.
Though Committed, feels a bit cooler in comparison, it's a nice sequel to Eat, Pray, Love. It's Gilbert's attempt to get comfortable with moving on and recommitting.
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