title: How to heal a broken heart: Let go of pain and learn to love again (Healing Hurt)
author: Carolyn Hughes
description: For twenty years Carolyn Hughes called alcohol The Hurt Healerit helped me numb the pain of the past, gave me confidence to deal with the present, and took away my fears for the future. Since leaving rehab in 1998, she has found freedom in sobriety and overcome long-term depression. Having reclaimed her life, The Hurt Healer now means faith, love, serenity, joy, positivity and creativity. Its also the name Carolyn has given her business. Through The Hurt Healer website and blog, her aim is to help others with their addiction and mental health issues. Carolyn runs one-to-one mentoring sessions via Skype and FaceTime, offering professional advice and solutions. In addition, she creates and facilitates specialized small group workshops in personal development and life issues for a wide range of community, faith and womens organizations. Based in the UK, Carolyn is also a freelance writer. Her inspirational posts and articles are regularly published in the UK and the United States. Carolyn Hughes can be contacted at www.thehurthealer.com
zlib_text: Peaches & Cream
  This book is dedicated to
  those that have been hurt
  deceived,
  lied to
  taken advantage of
  and mistreated.
  This is for those who felt like giving up but didn’t for those who came out of
  the war a better person and for those that want to heal their wounds.
  Table of Contents
  Love...
  Pain…
  Healing…
  Love...
  There are so many different definitions to this word and so many different
  ways to do this
  let alone feel this
  tough love, rough love, real love, fraud love, etc.
  so, when I feel this how do I know which love it really is?
  love is deceiving
  
  Effort is all that I need let me know that you care
  let me know that you want to fight for us show me that you love me
  show me that my happiness means something to you let me know that you
  want to keep me in your life show me that I’m important
  & that I mean something to you effort can change everything
  that one word is all I need from you to make me stay
  I want you to adore me
  I want to be the finest thing walking on the earth in your