Heartbreak cures are as old as time, or at least as old as the Common Era. Around the year 1 C. A few weeks earlier, I had been dumped by a man I was seeing—and by text, no less. Even the rake Rodolphe had the decency to add a drop of water to his breakup letter to Emma Bovary, hidden in a basket of apricots, to make it look as though he was inconsolable. Syed Ali advertises ketamine injections as breakup therapy, claiming that they can provide relief from heartbreak-induced depression and anxiety within hours.
We sat on opposite sides of a long table at a Burmese restaurant, and I noticed him across the din of gossip and requests to pass the tea-leaf salad. We parted last summer, after many months of what one could call deliberation but was mostly me pleading to be free. My marriage had been everything I thought I could ask for: sturdy. At first, I thought that was O. After it ended, as I was still trying to understand how I had got caught up in a mess of my own making, I met someone really, really hot.
The last time I saw him before he sent me that text, we were in his kitchen eating pastries when we suddenly heard the brass horns. I decided to investigate, one heartbreak hotel at a time. I had also considered a program called Renew Breakup Bootcamp, run by Amy Chan, a former marketing specialist who calls herself the Chief Heart Hacker. I called Chan.
How are we in bondage? The lobby of Kripalu was buzzing with fit white women carrying pastel-colored water bottles. Healing from Heartbreak. I asked if it had been hard to record those parts of the book. I had just done so much healing.
I could see that. Her long brown hair was now full and lustrous. In her book, she describes it falling out amid the stress of her breakups. During that time, she also found out that she was prediabetic, despite having no history of blood-sugar abnormalities. She consulted with an Ayurvedic M. The Ayurvedic doctor prescribed a yoga position called supported fish pose. During the next three days, Stover would be leading twenty-six women—including me—through grief-loosening yoga poses, meditations, and writing exercises.
