Recovering From Heartbreak And Abandonment - by Meg James

COURSE

Recovering From Heartbreak And Abandonment

With Meg James

This course will gently guide you through the five stages of recovering from heartbreak and abandonment, drawing inspiration from the work of psychotherapist and author Susan Anderson. You'll be provided with bespoke tools to help you process your pain, rebuild your sense of self and create a vision for the future filled with love, growth and self-respect.

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Meet your Teacher

Meg James
Melbourne

Meg James is a trauma-informed Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Meditation Teacher with a background in Psychology. She specialises in helping individuals navigate trauma recovery, relationship challenges, anxiety, perfectionism, grief, and life transitions. Meg facilitates private therapy sessions online with clients from all around the world.

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8 Days

650 students

5.0 stars

15 min / day

Compassion

English

Lesson 1

Surviving The Storm Of Heartbreak And Abandonment

In this first lesson, we’ll explore the first and most painful stage of recovery. We’ll look at why this stage is so disorienting, how it impacts your sense of self and safety, and why it’s a vital part of the healing process. You’ll learn how to gently support yourself through the chaos of heartbreak or betrayal, and begin to make sense of the emotional overwhelm that comes when everything you thought you could count on falls apart. Most importantly, you’ll begin to realise: you are not broken, you are grieving. And healing is not only possible, it’s already unfolding; one moment, one breath, one sensation at a time.

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Lesson 2

Processing The Pain Of Withdrawal

In this lesson, we’ll explore the second stage of recovery. After the devastation of the initial storm of heartbreak, this phase brings a different kind of pain; one of aching emptiness, deep longing, and emotional dependency that can feel all-consuming. In this lesson, you’ll learn how withdrawal from your lost love impacts both your brain and body. And most importantly, you’ll learn techniques to validate your emotions, soothe your pain, and tend to yourself with compassion.

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Lesson 3

Honouring Your Needs And Tending To Your Inner Child

In this lesson, we’re going to explore how connecting with your inner child is a crucial step in the second stage of the recovery process. We will delve into practices that help you reconnect with this tender part of yourself, allowing self-love to become the foundation for your healing. By the end of this lesson, you’ll not only understand the role of inner child healing in recovery, but you’ll also have a practice to nurture your deepest needs, fears, and longings.

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Lesson 4

Breaking Free From Patterns Of Self-Abandonment

In today’s lesson, we’ll explore the third stage of the recovery process. This is the stage where shame takes hold, often giving rise to self-abandoning survival strategies like people-pleasing and perfectionism, coping mechanisms that develop in the wake of heartbreak and abandonment. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how these patterns fuel feelings of unworthiness and, most importantly, how to meet yourself with tenderness and compassion in the midst of this deeply painful process.

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Lesson 5

Transforming Your Anger Into Empowerment

In today’s lesson, we’ll explore the fourth phase in your journey toward self-restoration. It’s here that you have the opportunity to draw a line in the sand, stop railing against reality and channel this powerful energy into taking the action required to repair your life. Moving forward is now your choice, and this lesson will help you make it happen.

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Lesson 6

Crafting A New Vision For The Future

In this lesson, we’ll be focusing on the fifth stage of abandonment recovery. This is a phase of reconnection, not just with life, but with yourself. It’s about moving beyond survival mode and stepping into a space of renewal, clarity, and purpose.

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Lesson 7

Expanding Your Capacity For Connection

In today’s lesson, we’ll explore how healing opens your heart again, not in a way that makes you vulnerable to old wounds, but in a way that allows you to connect from a place of wholeness. This is where the possibility of new life and new love begins, not just romantically, but in all your relationships, including the one you have with yourself.

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Lesson 8

Thriving Beyond Heartbreak And Abandonment

In this final lesson, we’ll focus on integration: weaving everything you’ve learned and experienced into a lasting foundation of vitality. You’ll be invited to reflect on how far you’ve come, what you want to carry forward, and how you’ll continue to honour your healing beyond this course. This is not the end of your healing; it’s a turning point. A place where you get to move forward with more clarity, more self-compassion, and a deeper connection to the unshakeable truth that you are worthy of love, just as you are.

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Recent Reviews

Lidia

December 28, 2025

The best course I’ve found which really walks you through the stages of the grieving process, helping you to recognise them and understand them and work through them in a really gentle and practical way.

Emma

November 6, 2025

Thank you Meg, for this brilliant course. You’ve condensed so beautifully a process I’ve been going through for the past 2 1/2 years with meditation & a fantastic Jungian therapist. I really appreciate the thoughtfulness, depth and power of your work. Ever grateful for your teaching 🫶🏾 Emma, Dublin, Ireland ☘️

Desiree

September 14, 2025

Helped me to recognise myself in the suffering from loss. Highly recommend!

ilinca

July 27, 2025

Very beautiful course. Wise, compassionate and soothing. My heart feels like it just got a hug ❤️

Fiona

July 21, 2025

Just what I needed. After 35 years and 2 children together my partner said he doesn’t love me anymore.💔 I was stunned, shocked, devastated and crushed to name just a few emotions. I really found this course to be enlightening and I am about to go back to the beginning to go over it again. The description of the stages of recovery from abandonment was well described and the examples were easy to understand and relate to. The accompanying meditations were so beneficial I’m not sure where to start. If for no other reason it gave me a few minutes of calm in a very messy head. I am so very grateful to you for providing this course and for your lovely calm and caring voice. 🙏🫶

Paul

July 12, 2025

This was an astounding course for me. I have been traveling through a heartbreak for several months now. The steps of recovery had all been experienced, and not necessarily in the order presented, but it was very reassuring to hear that I was indeed, and have indeed progressed out of this dark time. Thank you, Meg.

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