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Books for a Heartbroken Soul

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Mika's Curated Consumption

Healing after heartbreak is not a linear journey, and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. But there is a quiet power in knowing that you’re not alone in your pain, and that the path forward can be one of personal growth, self-discovery, and eventu...

Sections

The Practical Guide to Healing a Broken Heart

How to ease the pain of heartache

For Processing Pain & Emotions

For Self-Love & Rediscovery

For Moving On & Empowerment

For Hope & Inspiration

The Practical Guide to Healing a Broken Heart

Heartbreak is a universal experience that comes with intense emotional anguish and distress. While many people associate a broken heart with the end of a romantic relationship, therapist Jenna Palumbo, LCPC, emphasizes that “grief is complicated.” Th...

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO GRIEF | Grief is not the same for everyone, says Palumbo, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to give yourself permission to feel all of your sadness, anger, loneliness, or guilt. “Sometimes by doing that, you un...

Healing a broken heart takes time, but building certain habits, like practicing self-compassion and journaling, can help ease the process.

How to ease the pain of heartache

You’re experiencing a profound form of grief that can make you physically ill.

HEARTBREAK IS A FORM OF GRIEF | Losing someone significant has a powerful impact, even when that person is still alive. The loss triggers a stress response, and the stress hormone cortisol can create unpleasant and disruptive side-effects, such as di...

Heartbreak is a form of grief

When Ziella Bryars was in the midst of heartbreak, a conversation with her neuroscientist best friend changed everything. Frustrated by unhelpful advice from magazines and rom-coms, Ziella began diving deep into the latest scientific research to help...

How to Mend a Broken Heart | Ziella Bryars

For Processing Pain & Emotions

Heartbreak can feel like grief—a deep, aching absence that lingers in the chest, disrupting sleep, thoughts, and even your sense of self. In this stage, it’s not about rushing to "get over it," but allowing space to feel, reflect, and begin understan...

Raw, compassionate, and deeply human advice from the author of Wild, based on her anonymous "Dear Sugar" advice column.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar | Cheryl Strayed

A powerful memoir on grief, loss, and mental survival—though about death, it resonates profoundly with heartbreak.

The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion

A daily meditation book offering brief, reflective passages that gently guide the heart through mourning.

Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief | Martha W Hickman

For Self-Love & Rediscovery

After a painful loss, it’s easy to forget how to love yourself—how to nurture your own heart without needing someone else to validate it. But rediscovering self-love isn’t about simply "moving on" or "finding someone better." It’s about remembering t...

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by b...

The Mountain is You Audiobook | Brianna Wiest

“This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, ‘My story matters because I matter.’ Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenti...

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are | Brené Brown

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experience...

You Can Heal Your Life | Louise Hay

For Moving On & Empowerment

When the weight of heartbreak feels overwhelming, it can be hard to imagine a future where you feel whole again. But healing doesn’t mean forgetting or erasing what you’ve been through—it means finding the strength to move forward, one small step at ...

We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel ...

Attached | Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous...

Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert

Single, less stressed, and free If you’re tired of swiping through dating apps, ghosting, and hearing well-meaning questions about why you’re still single, it’s hard not to feel “less-than” because you haven’t found your soul mate. Until now.

How to Be Single and Happy | Jennifer Taitz

For Hope & Inspiration

No matter how broken we feel, we are never beyond repair. These books are full of hope, courage, and inspiration—tools to help you reconnect with the belief that better days are ahead, and that you have the strength to embrace them when they come.

Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisi...

Option B | Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, an...

Untamed | Glennon Doyle

“The older you get, the more baggage you carry. When you date at twenty-five, everyone walks into the bar with a very neat, light carry-on. When you date from thirty onwards, get ready to meet someone absolutely brimming with history, complications a...

Everything I Know about Love | Dolly Alderton