Welcome to Waking Up in Heartbreak

I suspect three things about you, here at a podcast titled Waking Up in Heartbreak:

Your heart is shredded. Your identity is dissolving. What you’re going through is so intense and complex it feels like a dark night of the soul.

Yes, you want to be on the other side, glowing and confident. And you will. But something in you says, stay here for a spell. Listen. Because who you become as you stay instead of running away, IS who helps you emerge.

There is an indomitable inner fire in you — even if it feels faint at the moment — that won’t let up until you are more fully awake, lit-up, fully yourself.

It’s precisely what led you here. Welcome.

I’m LiYana Silver, author of Waking Up in the Dark Night of Divorce and Feminine Genius.

I’ve been a relationship coach for 25 years, guiding women (& their partners) through deep transformation, all the way through heartbreak to rebuilding lives and loves that are unapologetically alive, beautiful, meaningful.

Here’s what we’ll be talking about in this podcast:

How to get through (but not bypass) the hardest parts
Why losing yourself in relationships, especially for women, is not an accident but by design.
The inner work of reclaiming yourself that must happen before you rebuild your life.
Trusting yourself (again), being good to yourself, and being as big and bright as you truly are

I know this heartbreak feels like failure. But it’s your initiation.

I know you might feel like you are lost. But you are somewhere:

In a rite of passage called a dark night of heartbreak.

So come in close. Grab a soft blanket and warm beverage.

Let this heartbreak wake you and remake you.

Watch & listen to Waking Up in Heartbreak:

The Sacred Work of Falling Apart

What if the worst season of your life wasn't evidence that you've lost your way but an ancient passage that countless mystics have walked before you? In this luminous and deeply personal conversation, Mirabai Starr, translator of Dark Night of the Soul and author...

What I Said When She Called Me Sobbing

Direct from a fiery, final breakup, a client called me at 1am. Her message was soaked with inky, bottom-of-the-well despair. What did I say to her? To her heartbreak? In her profound moment of loss? To help her make sense of her devastation — as well as past pain from...

When Everything Burns with HeatherAsh Amara

Healing doesn't begin when we "rise from the ashes," but when we stop trying to avoid the fire. Welcome to this intimate, incendiary conversation with HeatherAsh Amara, mentor, land steward, philanthropist, and author of nine best-selling books, including Warrior...

Stop Fighting Yourself

Being hard on yourself doesn’t make you stronger. It severs you from the very strength you need to make it through the Dark Night of Heartbreak. In this episode, I explore the inner war we wage with ourselves: criticizing, shaming, overriding, restricting, pushing,...

The Power of Crying-On-The-Bathroom-Floor Moments

Kelly and I — LiYana Silver, host of Waking Up in Heartbreak — talk about heartbreak, shame, and power: an exploration of what happens when a woman stops conforming to the script she was given and begins rebuilding from what is actually true. In this episode, look and...

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