A breakup recovery book by Marlo Celestri
Your world just broke apart. This short, honest guide helps you get over a breakup you didn't choose, and find your way back, one phase at a time.
Available on Kindle · Included with Kindle Unlimited · Read on any phone, tablet or computer with the free Kindle app · Paperback coming soon
The problem
One moment the sky is calm. The next, you are alone in a small boat on a dark, wild sea, with a hundred questions crashing in from every side and nothing to hold on to.
If you are going through a breakup you did not choose, you know exactly what that feels like. Your mind won't stop asking why?. You wonder whether to reach out to your ex. Nobody seems to have a map.
Through the Storm is that map: gentle, honest and practical. It is not a clinical manual, and it does not put a deadline on your pain.
“Those waves are your thoughts. They come from every direction, and right now you cannot steer them.”
The journey
Healing after heartbreak doesn't happen all at once. Each chapter follows one phase, told as a journey across a stormy sea, from the first overwhelming days to the moment the horizon becomes visible again. Every chapter ends with a Personal Glimpse: the author's own unfiltered experience of that phase.
Getting through the first overwhelming days, and understanding the pain you feel.
Simple ways to keep your head above water: writing, talking, moving, protecting your self-worth.
Raising the sail again and choosing a first new direction, including whether to contact your ex.
Why the pain lingers, and what is happening in your mind when you can't stop thinking about them.
Stepping out of the endless loop of “why?” and rewriting the story your mind keeps telling.
Reflecting on the journey once the storm lies behind you.
Finding your inner compass: your core values and a new direction for your life.
What you'll learn
How to get through them, when the waves come from every direction, including honest guidance on whether to contact your ex.
Simple ways to stay afloat: writing, recording your thoughts, talking to someone you trust, staying in movement and protecting your self-worth.
What is actually happening in your mind when you cannot stop thinking about them.
How to step out of the endless loop and rewrite the story your mind keeps telling you.
Rediscover your core values and choose a new direction for your life.
At the end of every chapter: the author's own unfiltered experience of that phase.
A taste of the book
The sky was still blue, almost innocent. You believed it would stay that way, calm, predictable, gentle. There was nothing to suggest this moment would turn, nothing to prepare you for what was about to unfold. Without warning, a dark cloud moved in front of the sun. Then another followed, until the sky slowly and unmistakably changed.
Below you, the sea began to shift. At first, there was only a soft swell, almost kind, as if the water were gently trying to warn you. Soon, however, the waves grew taller and heavier, their rhythm erratic and unforgiving.
Do you recognize this feeling? Having no control, feeling powerless in the situation, and realizing that nothing you try seems to work. Those waves are your thoughts. They come from every direction, and right now you cannot steer them.
The author
Marlo Celestri writes about the moments that turn life upside down, and about finding your way through them.
After a breakup he never saw coming, Marlo threw himself into understanding heartbreak: books, research, podcasts and therapy, from morning until night. What he learned, together with his own unfiltered story, became his first book, Through the Storm.
Marlo writes the way he would talk to a friend: honest, practical and without pretending there are shortcuts. Through the Storm is his first book, but not his last.
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Questions
Through the Storm is available on Kindle. You don't need a Kindle device: the free Kindle app works on phones, tablets and computers.
A paperback edition is on its way. Once it's live, you'll find it on the same Amazon page as the e-book.
Yes. The first chapters give honest guidance on the first weeks, including whether to contact your ex. The book doesn't promise to get an ex back, and it doesn't put a deadline on your pain.
It's a short guide you can read in an evening or two, with seven chapters, one for each phase of healing. Read it at your own pace; you don't need to read ahead.
No. This book is experience, reading and metaphor, not treatment. It doesn't replace a therapist, doctor or anyone trained to help. If the pain feels like more than grief, or you don't feel safe with yourself, please reach out now: in the Netherlands call 113 or 0800-0113 (113.nl); anywhere else, findahelpline.com lists the number for your country.
No. It's written for anyone going through a breakup they didn't want.
You only have to keep sailing.
Get Through the Storm on Kindle · $4.99A breakup recovery book for the breakup you didn't want.