Crash Bloom: A Creative Guide for Growing Through Your Breakup

Crash Bloom is your empowered breakup comfort book. It curls up on the sofa with you. It guides your heart through tough decisions. It tells you everything is going to be okay without trying to change who you are.

Crash Bloom combines the lived wisdom and unique vision of artist and self-love coach Danette Relic. She invites you to imagine your breakup as a creative process. To treat your heart as a living thing, not something you need to hack. With personal stories, journal prompts, creative activities, playful humour and generous amounts of compassion, Crash Bloom encourages a gentle approach to powerful growth.

This book is permission to embrace your broken heart without judgment at every stage of healing, from the crash to the bloom. You get to fall apart. You get to write scathing emails you'll never send, and reinvent yourself. You get to be an imperfect human being with the courage to experience heartbreak, all while taking practical steps to help you cultivate the beautiful future you hope for.

Danette Relic is a Canadian artist, author, and coach, married to herself since 2001.From a young age, Danette was inspired by reading, drawing, using her imagination, and falling in love. Her early art career evolved from gallery spaces into roundtables. Here, she guides others in exploring their own creative voices through personal reflection, visual art and writing. After a brain injury in 2018 challenged her capacity for reading and writing, she found the joy of using her voice to serve in new ways by launching the Soft Shoulder Podcast.Danette's multifaceted work continues to illuminate the relationship between self-love and creative expression, now with the Art of Self-Marriage.