Here's the Plan to Get Over That Heartbreak...
Author Jamie Beckman has the plan to get over that heartbreak in just thirty days...
It started with a monster of a breakup. Jamie Beckman had ended it with a man with whom she had once discussed cuts and carats of engagement rings. “It was hard even to think about going for a solo walk on a spring day,” she says. “Everywhere I turned, there he was: at the hardware store where he’d made me a key to his apartment; at the park where we stopped to watch puppies play.”
When she was finally able to return to the world of the living, she did what good journalists do: She hit the books and the phones and gathered her life lessons to help others who’d been in her situation. She did it the Frisky way—snarky and smart with lots of tips from celebrities, experts and savvy women who’ve been there.
The result is The Frisky 30-Day Breakup Guide. It isn’t a tome of turgid advice—it’s a fun, easy-to-read fix to get the broken-hearted out of that funk. Designed around a day-by-day plan of activities, the guide will inspire even the most distraught breakup survivor to keep moving and hold her head up. From hosting a girls-only cocktail party (Day 15) to cooking herself a delicious dinner (Day 18), the best remedies for heartbreak are featured in a chatty, cheery package.
But Beckman didn’t take the book’s fun and frisky approach as an excuse to skimp on the research. Every entry’s advice is backed by experts or celebrities. Even for something as simple as Day 28, “Grow a Plant,” Beckman gets the professional opinion on the easiest houseplants to keep alive so even the heart-weary brown thumbs will find success.
Each small step taken one day at a time helps the devastated woman reconnect with friends, family and the things she loves about her life. Says Beckman, “There’s no Jedi mind trick that will snap you out of your breakup, but I can guarantee that after hunkering down with this book for a month, you’ll feel better than you did when you bought it and be on your way to forgetting all about ol’ what’s-his-name.”
Jamie Beckman is a writer and editor who has braved the dating scene and experienced firsthand all of the hope, elation and heartbreak that goes along with it. Jamie graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has written about relationships, health and lifestyle trends for publications including Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Best Life, First for Women and Better Homes and Gardens. She lives in New York City.
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