Breakup First Aid

Breakup First Aid2026-02-23T18:05:46-05:00

Breakup First Aid is For You If…

You’re going through a breakup, divorce, or you’ve been ghosted, and it feels like the ground beneath you has disappeared.

You’re trying to function, but inside, you’re barely holding it together.

You’re heartbroken and emotionally strung out on someone you can’t seem to get over.

You can’t stop replaying the conversations, the moments you shared, what they said, what you said, and what you wish you would have said or done.

You find yourself consumed by intense waves of sadness, grief, longing, fear, and anxiety, even when you’re doing everything you can to calm down.

You’re grieving not only the loss of the person, but the future you imagined.

Your mind is spiraling, and no matter how hard you try, you can’t stop thinking about them.

This loss doesn’t just hurt …it’s tearing open old abandonment wounds.

The pain feels disproportionate, or ancient.

At times, you oscillate between panic and numbness, overwhelmed one moment, disconnected the next.

If what you need right now is clarity, stability, and a grounded way to begin moving through this, Breakup First Aid is here for that.

This work is powerful. It’s stabilizing. And it gives you a way forward.

What Heartbreak Really Feels Like

Heartbreak dismantles the inner architecture that shaped how you loved, trusted, and made sense of your world.

And most people have no idea how to move through it.

So they numb themselves.
They dissociate.
They shut down their bodies.
They keep chasing the person who hurt them.
They cling to the fantasy of what could have been.
They scroll through social media until their brains go numb.
They get stuck in cycles of longing, fixation, self-doubt, and emotional paralysis.

It’s important for you to understand this: heartbreak isn’t something to “get over.”

It’s something you move through.

And moving through loss is a process of healing and transforming yourself.

Why This Hurts So Badly

Heartbreak isn’t just psychological.

It’s somatic, emotional, spiritual, and profoundly biochemical.

You’re not only suffering because of what you’re going through right now.

Your suffering is intensified because heartbreak activates everything inside you that was already tender, already unresolved, already waiting to be touched.

It activates:

  • Unconscious childhood wounds
  • Old abandonment fear.
  • Unresolved emotional memories.
  • Attachment trauma.

A neurochemical crash

Your system is being flooded with stress hormones like cortisol and norepinephrine.

You’re also experiencing a sudden drop in dopamine, oxytocin, and the bonding chemistry your system depended on.

Your body doesn’t experience this only as a breakup.

It also experiences it as loss, threat, and destabilization.

It can even awaken longing that’s been living in you for decades.

The parts of you that have never fully been seen, loved, or chosen.

This is why the pain can feel unbearable.

And this is exactly why you need something grounding, stabilizing, and structured, so you’re not left trying to navigate this alone.

What Breakup First Aid Does For You

This course will help you stabilize when you feel like you’re barely holding yourself together.

Quiet the obsessive thoughts and diffuse the emotional intensity

Your mind has been reeling. Replaying. Searching desperately for answers.

The obsessive fixation dissolves, and the spiraling thoughts quiet down.

You gain clarity, steadiness, and a growing sense of lightness and resilience.

Digest painful losses and the emotions tied to them, held in your body

Heartbreak doesn’t only live in your thoughts.

It lives in your chest, diaphragm, gut, and nervous system.

The emotions stored in these areas are brought to the surface so they can be metabolized.

Build inner resilience and restore your ability to function

When you're feeling overwhelmed or shut down, this work brings you back to yourself.

You become more resourceful, more capable, and more able to take the next step forward.

Breakup First Aid is immediate support for the acute stage of heartbreak.

This work is powerful, grounding, and stabilizing. And it gives you a way forward.

My Lineages, Training,
and Why I Do This Work

My work has been shaped by the teachers and traditions that trained me, and by what I had to learn in order to survive and transform my own suffering.

At twenty, I began training with Horace Daukei, one of the last surviving traditional doctors of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Horace transmitted portions of his healing gifts to me and guided me through the vision quest, a Native American healing practice that involves fasting alone in the mountains for four days and nights without food or water. I’ve returned to the Wichita Mountains for the vision quest twice a year, spring and fall, for decades.

In 2002, I began seventeen years of intensive training with Chinese Master Shifu Li Tai Liang in the Taoist internal martial arts of Xin Yi Quan, Baguazhang, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong.

In my mid-twenties, I found myself reenacting the traumas of my childhood and adolescence, forming attachments to women who were disinterested, unavailable, and a few who were quite abusive. The pain I felt in those years was excruciating. Yet it led me to develop a series of intensive meditation practices that activate the body and mind’s innate capacity to digest heartbreak, and other forms of trauma and adversity, along with the emotions tied to these experiences, transforming them into fuel for growth.

For over three and a half decades, I’ve worked with thousands of individuals to heal heartbreak, attachment wounds, emotional stagnation, repeating relational patterns, and physical pain connected to unresolved emotional memory. Breakup First Aid is the distilled essence of what I’ve learned, practiced, and taught across multiple decades.

What You Get Inside Breakup First Aid

You’ll Gain Crucial Insight into Why This Hurts as Badly as It Does

Breakup First Aid is a concise, focused course designed to get you through the devastation of a breakup, divorce, ghosting, and other painful losses.

Inside, you’ll gain a clear understanding of:

  • why the pain feels so unbearable
  • why unresolved trauma resurfaces during loss
  • why you keep reenacting early attachment patterns and other deep emotional wounds
  • what causes you to fixate, and what prevents you from healing and letting go
  • how the painful impressions of past relationships, and the emotions tied to them, remain trapped in your body

When you understand what’s actually happening inside you, you stop blaming yourself for “not being over it,” and you’re able to move forward with far more clarity and direction.

Intensive Meditation Practices That Help You Stabilize and Heal

This is the core of the course.

True healing happens beneath the level of thought. Through a series of intensive meditation practices, we move beyond “talking about” the pain and begin the work of digesting your lived experience of loss, and the emotions tied to it.

This process helps you:

  • develop greater self-awareness and become more firmly grounded in your body.
  • diffuse the shock and calm the overwhelm
  • learn to work effectively with the intense waves of sadness, fear, grief, and longing, rather than fighting or being consumed by them
  • dissolve fixation, quiet the obsessive thoughts, and find stillness within
  • build a strong internal core, while developing greater strength and resilience

This is more than insight. It’s a visceral, embodied shift, from devastation to steadiness, clarity, and wholeness.

Therapeutic Interventions That Accelerate Healing

In addition to the practices, I’ll take you deeper into the therapeutic interventions that can dramatically accelerate your recovery, break the cycle of painful reenactments, and enable you to build the internal stability needed for healthy, reciprocal love moving forward. Some aspects of healing can’t be fully done on your own. Knowing what to seek out, and how to make the most effective use of these interventions, can save you years of struggle and help you move forward far more effectively.

After you enroll, we’ll schedule a 30-minute orientation call together.

And because most people need real guidance at the beginning, this includes a 30-minute orientation call with me, so you’re not navigating this alone.

This call gives me the opportunity to get to know you, understand what you’re dealing with, whether that’s a breakup, divorce, ghosting, infidelity, or another painful relational situation, and help you start in the right place.

I’ll guide you toward the practices to begin with, the understanding that will be most supportive early on, and the best way to approach the work based on where you are right now. This ensures you’re not left trying to navigate the process on your own, and that you’re set up to get the most out of Breakup First Aid.

Your Next Step

Breakup First Aid is $47 and includes immediate access to the full course, along with a 30-minute orientation call with me.

This grounded, body-based process helps you stabilize the sadness, grief, and longing that come with loss, so you can begin moving forward with clarity.

If you’re ready to steady yourself and take the next step, you can join now.

Testimonials

These reflections come from people who’ve worked with me through heartbreak, emotional loss, and deep relational pain.

Ben came to me at a time of desperation and much needed clarity. I knew, after having experienced a destructive and deeply traumatic relationship, that I needed assistance looking deeper within myself into what and who I was attracting into my life.

Ben has an amazing gift. After a series of sessions, I completely opened up to the nature of myself and who I really was

After integrating his work, I started understanding and enjoying the relationships I was having. I would wholeheartedly recommend working with Ben, for anyone who is in search of a deeper connection with their personal relationships and themselves as a whole.

Since doing his work, I have not only been able to see the truth for myself, but healed my past relationships, gained strong boundaries with myself and others, and gained access to my own inner power. I am forever thankful for you Ben, your work for people and for the planet as a whole.

James, Las Vegas, Nevada

“Prior to working with Ben, I was in a 28-year toxic marriage. While I knew I wasn't happy, I was hesitant to leave.

I gave myself a Ben session for my 50th birthday, thinking it would be a one-time deal.

His work helped me gain the courage and strength to leave my marriage. It wasn’t until I left that I realized how much that relationship was holding me back: it stifled my emotions, blocked my creativity, and my ability to step into the world with purpose.

Now, 7 years later, I continue with his practices and healing sessions that have vastly enriched and deepened my relationship with myself. Ben's work has enabled me to become more emotionally resilient, grounded, and connected to myself and others in healthier ways.”

Eileen, Albany, New York

“I began working with Ben when I was twenty years old, shortly after I was in an automobile accident. Physically, I was fine. Mentally and emotionally, however, I was a wreck.

Two years prior, I had been sexually assaulted. I was struggling with that trauma while in a toxic relationship. In addition to the panic attacks, I was often plagued by suicidal thoughts. On the outside, everything was fine. On the inside, I was fighting for my life. It was a dark and terrifying time.

It has been four years since I started working with Ben, the transformation has been incredible. I am now happily married, recently graduated with my master's and am looking forward to the future. When bumps occur in the road, I'm able to process them without getting bulled over by anxiety. This is because of the healing that Ben facilitated, and the techniques he teaches, such as daily practice. If you had told me four years ago what my life would look like, I wouldn't have believed you. Ben saved my life, and I am forever grateful.”

Heather, Albany, New York

If You’re Ready to Stop Spiraling and Start Moving Forward…

You’re in the acute stage of heartbreak, and you need something that eases the pain, helps you cope more effectively, and gets you back on your feet and back into life.

You may also recognize something deeper underneath it, old patterns of abandonment, repeated rejection, and the kind of emotional pain that feels far bigger than this one relationship.

Rather than being consumed by it, or reenacting it, you’re committed to doing whatever it takes to heal and get back on your feet.

This work will meet you where you are.
It will enable you to metabolize the pain rather than carry it,
restore your emotional footing,
build trust in yourself,
while gaining clarity, strength, and presence.

Your heartbreak is not the end of love.
It’s the beginning of deeper emotional transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this help if my heartbreak is from divorce, ghosting, infidelity, death, or unrequited love?2026-02-16T21:55:59-05:00

Yes.

While the circumstances differ, the internal experience often follows the same patterns, shock, longing, grief, emotional overwhelm, fixation, and the feeling that you’ve been knocked off your center.

Breakup First Aid supports a wide range of heartbreak and loss, including:

  • breakup or separation
  • divorce
  • ghosting
  • betrayal or infidelity
  • unrequited love
  • repeated rejection
  • the loss of someone you love
  • the loss of a dog or cat
  • relationship patterns rooted in early emotional wounding

If your heart is hurting, this work will meet you where you are.

What’s the difference between Breakup First Aid and Heal My Heartache?2026-02-16T21:57:37-05:00

Breakup First Aid is designed for immediate support when the pain feels overwhelming. It helps stabilize your system, calm the emotional storms, and give you practical tools to get through the hardest moments.

Heal My Heartache goes much deeper. It’s for those who are ready to work through the roots of their attachment wounds, emotional patterns, and the deeper layers of loss and longing. It includes more extensive teachings, guided practices, and a broader framework for long-term healing and growth.

Heal My Heartache also includes individual one-on-one sessions with me. These sessions allow for personalized guidance and deeper work adapted to your specific history, patterns, and needs.

Some people begin with Breakup First Aid and later move into Heal My Heartache when they’re ready to go further. Others come in already prepared for deeper work and start with Heal My Heartache right away.

Both support healing, they simply meet you at different stages of the journey.

How is this different from therapy or coaching?2026-02-16T21:58:47-05:00

Most therapy helps you understand what you’ve been through and gives you a place to talk it out.

Most coaching focuses on mindset, behavior change, and practical strategies.

Both can be valuable.

But when you’re in the acute stage of heartbreak, insight alone often isn’t enough. You can understand exactly what’s happening and still feel completely wrecked inside.

Breakup First Aid works beneath the level of thought. It gives you intensive practices to stabilize, digest what you’re carrying, and move through the emotional shock, fixation, and overwhelm, so you can actually get your footing back and start moving forward again.

How long will it take me to heal?2026-02-16T21:59:22-05:00

There isn’t one answer.

Some people feel noticeable relief quickly, within days or weeks, especially once they understand what’s happening inside them and begin working with the practices consistently. The obsessive looping starts to calm down. The emotional flooding eases. You get your footing back.

But if the heartbreak is tied to deeper attachment wounds, old emotional imprints, or long-standing relational patterns, the healing process takes longer. Not because you’re broken, but because those wounds run deep.

This work isn’t a quick fix. It’s a process of digestion and integration.

The more consistently you work with the practices, the faster things begin to shift.

And the deeper you go, the more you’re not just “getting over someone,” you’re rebuilding your internal foundation.

Do you offer a money-back guarantee?2026-02-16T21:59:51-05:00

Because this work requires real time, presence, and follow-through, I do not offer refunds.

If you have questions before enrolling, I encourage you to reach out so we can determine whether Breakup First Aid is the right fit.

You Can Begin Right Away

Breakup First Aid is a grounded, body-based process that enables you to stabilize and digest the sadness, grief, longing, and other emotions that come with loss.

Because most people need real guidance at the beginning, I’m including a 30-minute call with me so we can get you oriented and moving in the right direction.

Breakup First Aid is only $47 and gives you immediate access to the full course, along with your 30-minute orientation call.

If you’re ready to stabilize and move forward, you can join now.

Contact Me

Call me at (332) 333-5155—or better yet, call and message to ensure I receive it. The work I do is highly personalized, so we’ll set up a time to talk, discuss your needs, and see if this is the right fit for you. If we choose to move forward, we’ll schedule your first session.

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