Three Ways to Work With Heartbreak: Part Three

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Heartbreak can make our usual strategies for managing pain useless. It can also show us what is true about being human: everything changes, everything ends, and love is precious because it cannot be held onto. In this episode, I look at how heartbreak itself can become part of the spiritual path.

Highlights:

• Bringing heartbreak to the path without trying to turn it into a lesson
• How impermanence shows us the preciousness of each moment
• Why heartbreak reveals our deep connection with other people
• Heartbreak as love unbound from an object
• Being with what is, without trying to change it

Mentioned in this episode: 

My book, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

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