📚 The Journey from Abandonment to Healing by Susan Anderson

Psychotherapist Susan Anderson writes about the pain of abandonment after a relationship ends. She describes five stages she names shattering, withdrawal, internalising, rage and lifting, and sets out a recovery programme of five hands-on exercises.

Key Themes

• The five stages of abandonment, as the author describes them
• Five hands-on exercises to work through
• Links with the Kübler-Ross model of grief
• Findings from neuroscience, added in the 2014 revised edition

Sissoo recommends this because it puts clear words to a pain many people know after a relationship ends. It pairs those words with practical exercises a reader can try at their own pace.

If you would like to talk things through with someone, you can explore Speaking & Listening Therapies. For quieter time with your thoughts, you might also look at Meditation.

Get it here