On Heartbreak, Healing, and Transformation | Sara Avant Stover

To care, to love, and to be human,

Means we will inevitably experience heartbreak. 

Whether its the loss of relationship,

The end of a job, 

The death of a loved one,

A natural disaster, infertility, a financial crisis, or any shape that loss may take.

Heartbreak sends us reeling―

Leaving many of us feeling alone and adrift. 

After her own experience of serial heartbreak over the span of five years, 

Sara Avant Stover wrote her latest book: Handbook for the Heartbroken.

Feeling impacted by our culture’s dysfunctional relationship with loss Sara says:

“We’re encouraged at every turn to hurry up and get on with it, but by trying to power through these messier seasons of life, we’re denying ourselves the very answers to our healing and growth.”

In today’s conversation we are going to slow down and unpack some of Sara’s greatest insights about the landscape of heartbreak. 

Including how we can find the courage, hope, strength, and resilience to move through it.

That the path forward is not alone, but together.

And how Sara’s insights, teachings, stories and practices serve as a powerful reminder - 

That if we can find the courage to embrace change with an open heart, 

including when things fall apart completely, 

we might ultimately become a wiser, more mature, and integrated human being through the process.

For more on Sara, including her books, retreats, the work she does as an Internal Family Systems Practitioner, and Business Strategist to entrepreneurial women please visit saraavantstover.com

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