3 ways to mend a broken heart
For centuries, poets and philosophers have written about our most human pain: a broken heart. Now scientists have confirmed the physical effects of a broken heart. Broken heart syndrome, according to the American Heart Association, is actual pain in one’s heart caused by a surge of stress hormones brought on by sadness or an emotionally stressful event. Living with a broken heart dramatically impacts your quality of life. Although healing feels elusive, it's coming! Use these three ways to mend your broken heart: 1. Come alive with your purpose. Although people say that heartache heals with time, a passionate commitment to live in better alignment with our purpose aids the mending. Each day we have a choice: do we flood our thoughts with the pain and details of our heartbreak? Or do we try--again and again--to live fruitfully? Our loved ones will support us as we find our way out of the dark. Use your gifts to make the world even just a tiny bit better for those arou...