Piecing Your Heart Back Together: The Road Map to Healing and Thriving After a Breakup or Divorce
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Certified life coach, Carmen Silvestro, has developed a process that helped stop endless days of consuming thoughts about her broken marriage so she could find acceptance, peace, and love. She presents her method in Piecing Your Heart Back Together to teach women how to finally break free from the deep emotional attachment to their ex. Throughout Piecing Your Heart Back Together, women also discover how to turn this devastating pain and loss into a powerful transformational journey by:
Carmen Silvestro
After struggling through her own painful divorce, Carmen Silvestro became inspired to help others thrive after heartbreak and left her corporate career to become a certified life coach. She lives in Whippany, New Jersey with her family and two cats. Carmen loves music, poetry, art, meditating, and challenging workouts.
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Piecing Your Heart Back Together - Carmen Silvestro
Introduction
Hello, my dearest one. I know how devastating this is. No matter the circumstances, when you lose someone you love, you are grieving. No one understands the kind of pain you are going through unless they have gone through it themselves. The sleepless nights, the endless tears, and the feeling of frailty. Feeling like you can’t breathe when you try to imagine your life without your partner, your best friend. Your world is falling apart piece by piece, and you no longer have your ex to hold your hand through it. It’s as if you have been tossed into an abyss with no sign of a familiar road, light, or hope anywhere in sight. Sometimes you feel like you are in a devastatingly bad dream that you can’t wake yourself from, where not even the salty tears that run from the sides of your eyelids or the quivering sounds from your mouth can wake you. It is like a nightmare for sure. Except it’s real.
When your phone rings, you secretly hope it’s going to be your ex, begging for forgiveness and acknowledging the huge mistake you are both making. Let’s not give up! I love you,
he will desperately say. But it never happens. Instead, he grows colder and more distant by the day. His indifferent eyes look at you as if you never meant anything to him.
Work is getting very tricky to say the least. There are days when you are successful. On these days, you manage to throw yourself head first into tasks where you fully, and purposefully, immerse yourself and obsess over every detail, knowing full well that if you break your concentration or let your mind wander off, he will creep back in. You may find yourself revisiting old memories of the two of you and wondering how you got to this place. You will find yourself holding back a thousand tears and wondering if you will ever feel happiness again. Will that ever be possible?
Loved ones are so supportive. They try their best to keep you strong and cheer you up, but even a smile causes you physical pain. You are feeling how unbearable you have become and can hardly stand to look at yourself in the mirror, so you start to retreat into solitude. You have your family and friends, yet you have never felt so alone.
There are days when you just want to pull the covers over your head and block out the world. You want to stay where you are and not have to talk or answer when someone asks how you are feeling today with that look of pity. And there are days when you want to curl up with your anger and pain, where you feel justified to stay in this dark place and never come out again. You feel frozen and unable to let go of the suffering.
Sometimes, in the middle of showering, you realize you have drifted off again into the middle of a memory when things were so easy and free and full of love, when you used to stay up all night talking and laughing or make love until the sun came up. It’s a memory that starts off sweetly but, moments later, sends you into a sobbing frenzy where you have to hold on to the shower walls for strength. You almost wish you could go back in time and prevent ever meeting him. I know.
I also know that what you want now more than anything is to heal and get past this torment that seems to be ruining your life. I know you dream of the days when you can finally stop wasting your time with obsessive thoughts about your ex, to the days when you no longer allow your mind to wander off or derail you (day and night) with torturous feelings. You want to move on and not feel this haunting pain any longer. You want to be able to eat a meal again and enjoy it. You want to be able to sleep through the night and feel rested the next morning. You want to be present for your loved ones and be able to concentrate and be your best at work again. You would do anything to make this pain go away and get your life back. You would do anything to be able to feel a real smile or laughter come over you again. I know.
Don’t give up, my dear one. I promise, where you are is only temporary.
Chapter 1:
My Story—Endings Are Beginnings
When I found out my ex-husband was having an affair, there was the obvious shock and anger—anger over the betrayal that he was not who I thought he was. The man I married would not pursue another woman. He was above this. People who have affairs are weak and immoral. This was not my husband. My husband had integrity. He was loving and honest. For years, he had pursued me and told me how he wished for me. He wrote me songs and left me little love notes on the bathroom mirror after he took a hot shower. He was my best friend in the world. I knew everything about him, and he knew everything about me. We had been through wars and glory days together. We were even trying to have a child! So, it was just not possible that this was the same man. For a few hours after I found out he was involved with someone else, I was livid. I thought I was better off without him. If he would do this to me, and she would get involved with a married man, then they deserved one another, and I was done. This was what I felt for about five hours.
It was a Saturday night. My husband left for the night to play with his band at the Borgata in Atlantic City. I had decided to stay home this time because I was tired from doing a lot of work on our new home. I was also emotionally drained. I really didn’t want to sit through a night of loud music, too many drunk guys, and me having a drink too many. Not tonight. Tonight, I would do my best to leave sadness and worry behind. I would relax and do something for myself.
My little brother would have wanted me to. He had passed away a month prior, and for a month, I had turned into my mom. I carried a planet of pain and worry for my family on my shoulders. So tonight was going to be different. It would be about celebrating my decorating skills and relaxing with some music, pictures, and a glass of wine.
Pier 1 never saw me coming,
I chuckled. We were up to our elbows in decorative pillows, bamboo plants, healing rocks, and all kinds of wall hangings. This was my therapy. My husband knew how much I loved and supported him, so skipping a show once in a while was no biggie. I had always encouraged him to play music and to follow his dreams, and I always listened to him talk music 24/7.
Yes, things had become a little mundane and gloomy lately, to say the least, with my little brother’s passing. We had our problems here and there, but what marriage didn’t have problems? There was nothing I saw as earth shattering.
My job had become nothing but a paycheck. At the time, I was the accounting and human resources manager at my company and was coming up on twenty years, but for the past year, the terrible stress and long hours since the new owner took over, had taken their toll on me. But still I felt stuck there since we were now proud
owners of a home. Eric was unhappy about his day job too. He was the purchasing manager for a music company, and his career had reached its peak a while back. It was not satisfying anymore, so he was starting to scout other companies. Even his beloved band had broken up, and his new band was not what he hoped it would be. He was no longer the center