Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After Paperback – October 18, 2016

Wonderful book to help one take responsibility for their part of the breakdown of the relationship. Helps one grow. Excellent book.

Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas is a brilliant, insightful and compassionate book on how to move from heartache to healing, even triumph, after a relationship ends. It is a beautifully written and carefully thought-out treatise on how to move through dark and dissonant times to light and consonant times, and the author provides a very useful process using 5 steps to assist the reader on this journey of transformation. I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with a life coach while I was walking through these steps, but it is clearly designed and organized so that any reader can trek this path on his/her own. I loved everything about the book, but what made it stand out for me was the fact that the author provides various exercises to help the reader look deep within, to re-pattern, forgive, practice self-care, and more. We all know we can't learn to ski or meditate by reading a book, we have to do it, and Ms. Thomas provides the reader with ways to support him or her during this emergence and growth. I also greatly enjoyed the "words of wisdom" in little boxes in the margins of many pages, wisdom such as: "Your present circumstances don't determine where you go, they merely determine where you start" by Nido Qubein", or, "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet" by Winston Churchill. This book was a lifesaver for me, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is struggling with endings, of any sort, and who is interested in new beginnings. I hope everyone out there enjoys this gem as much as I did . . . thank you, Katharine Woodward Thomas for a brilliant book about transformation!

I felt heard, seen, and that I was not going mad with the intense emotions and thoughts which I was feeling. This book makes sense, has heart, and gives step by step writing prompts (also links for recordings,) to inquire deeply and with self-honesty into the nuances of a relationship at it's end. It's organized in to 5 Steps. For those determined to heal and grow from this often excruciating Life event, this book offers comfort, compassion, guidance and understanding. Best,

Interesting read - an author who writes very well; will be interesting to try some of her other books in the future; A recommended read

Well laid out steps for navigating an amicable divorce. The quotes sprinkled throughout were inspirational, and I will be referencing this book in the future as it is not just applicable during a marriage divorce.

An amazing read that helps humanity come up with better ways to end relationships with respect, understanding, and some love left for each other.I wish I read this book before my broken way of letting go. 😁

I bought this book because the author wrote the introduction to another book I was reading, Coming Apart: How to Heal Your Broken Heart Paperback by Daphne Rose Kingma. The introduction was short, to the point, funny, personal, and very relatable. However, I found the first half of this book to be the exact opposite on most of these things. A lot of this book focuses on anger and anger alone. I feel like it touches on a few other emotions, mentions them almost in passing but really focuses on anger.This first half of this book reminds me of the literature books I remember reading in high school. She writes about a simple subject for a page and a half and then uses a metaphor for two pages and then comes back and summarizes everything again. I find “Part One” of the book to be very bloated and repetitious.If you do choose to purchase this book because “Part Two” is actually helpful, I’d skip directly to “Part Two” and begin reading the 5 steps, which are very descriptive and helpful.Another issue I take with this book is the quotes. I understand a lot of folks benefit and find inspiration from quotes, but I would say over half the pages in the book have at least one quote, which turns from inspiration to major destruction for me.

This book is GOLD. Whether you are thinking of a divorce, breaking up with an old friend, or breaking up with yourself and how you are currently showing up in your unhealthy relationships, this book is for you. I loved it so much that I became a Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach and can now share the medicine with my clients.