After the Breakup

Women Sort through the Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities

Modern-day breakups are the worst. Where can you go for support?

Even for strong and independent women, the emotional climbs and slides of a relationship's end can be a huge challenge. Not everyone around you recognizes the pain that you're in, and the cookie-cutter advice of conventional "divorce literature" flat-out misses the mark. Here, for the first time, a diverse sample of straight, bi, and lesbian women of all ages speak out about what really happens when couplehood ends, sharing what it takes to emerge from the rubble both wiser and stronger. Like a great heart-to-heart with your best girlfriends, After the Breakup offers a fresh perspective on how to rebuild identity and enjoy a life filled with new possibilities.

Read the introduction to After the Breakup.

"A terrific book! Chock-full of wisdom and sound, hands-on advice, After the Breakup should be in every woman's heartbreak recovery kit." —Marny Hall, author of The Lesbian Love Companion

"Here's a great book for women, by women, and about women who are ending or losing all kinds of significant relationships. Full of honest talk about what it really feels like to break up and what it takes to really get better. We're going to recommend this book to all of our brokenhearted friends." —Lauren Dockett and Kristin Beck, authors of Facing 30:Women Talk about Constructing a Real Life and Other Scary Rites of Passage

"In this book, dozens of women tell their breakup stories with poignancy and wit, giving the reader not just the insight about thoughts and feelings, but some great suggestions about what to do to heal, to grow, and to move on." —Eileen Clegg, author of Claiming Your Creative Self

Publicity for After the Breakup has included a thirty-city radio tour and a West Coast bookstore tour, as well as television and print media appearances. I appeared as a guest expert on the nationally syndicated Ananda Lewis Show, and I was featured as a relationship expert on iVillage.com, the largest women-centered web community. I facilitate ongoing workshops for women coping with relationship breakups.