About Us

Amelie’s Bio…

After graduating with a BS in Finance, I started out my career as a financial consultant. Was it exciting? That’s rhetorical! I went on to help build a technology business with a brilliant business partner. As in any small business, I assumed multiple roles including sales, marketing, kitchen cleaner etc. Interestingly, over several cycles of growth, I found the role for which I had the most passion was one that was not defined – an unofficial Dear Abby.  I was increasingly approached for advice on personal matters and one thing struck me: the issues that people were not able to leave at home were those involving a broken heart.

Fortunately, I could relate. In the first few years of building the business, I went through an intense divorce. It was that type of break up where I found myself working and then suddenly running to the restroom in a fit of tears, clutching my chest desperate for the next breath. Like many, I realized that coping with heartbreak was difficult to balance with the normal responsibilities of life.  Time heals all wounds, I had heard; yet I refused to accept this was the only remedy. I sought a better and faster way to heal and became engrossed in techniques that are rooted in the study of positive psychology.

Along my path, I made a fated acquaintance with Al – a pioneer in the area of mending hearts. We worked together and developed a more practical and realistic guide to recovery from a broken heart. I have now fully abandoned all left brain professions for my passion of writing and helping others overcome adversity in their lives. I am now an author, a Certified Coach of Positive Psychology, and an active mentor in the Heal My Broken Heart community.

I truly hope you find the site and our other services of benefit to you at this time in your life. Please trust, your pain will pass and you are en route to a better, brighter, and more authentic future. Reach out to me via email at healmybrokenheart@gmail.com – I’d love to hear from you.

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Al’s Bio…

I created the original version of HMBH back in 1999.  For the first time, ISPs were making it possible for the average person to host a small website, as long as the entire site did not exceed 5 MB in size and traffic didn’t exceed 800 page views per month.  Soon enough, HMBH was being shut down by the second week of the month based on too much traffic.  Updates were far and few between, but the response was good.  Lots of emails arrived, and some interest from the press.  At the time there was nothing else quite like in online.

Over time it needed a serious update.  The software I initially used was outdated.  The Internet and websites advanced. I needed someone to help me take it to the next level and was thrilled when I met Amelie.  She had amazing ideas, and I knew we could work together.

And we’re doing this because so much of the other stuff out there is so bad.  Other books/resources we’ve come across were missing so much information!  These books tend to condescend.  As if having a broken heart means the person involved is weak and inferior.  For example, several supposed professionals equate having a broken heart to low self esteem.  What?!?  Someone’s relationship ended, it doesn’t mean they lack self esteem or they suggest steps that are completely vague.  Like, ‘be optimistic’, but they don’t explain the ‘how’.  That’s why Amelie and I worked hard to arrive at steps that are practical, that makes sense, that don’t cast blame, and that make a real difference.

Al works in advertising, but don’t hold that against him.  Rest assured, like everyone, his heart has been through the wringer.

Al can be reached at healmybrokenheart@gmail.com.