When my heart breaks, it feels like I'm drowning—it is pain so raw it seems endless. Yet this is no isolated incident; to be human is to love, and to love is to risk loss. We cannot separate life from ...

This powerful prayer will soothe your soul and help heal that heart wounded by a bad love. With faith, anything is possible.

Accept that you will have to go through some pain. It is an unavoidable truth ... Extracted from How To Mend Your Broken Heart by Paul McKenna and Hugh Willbourn (Bantam Press, £7.99).