A place for life’s most difficult moments
When life breaks your heart—whether through lost love, shattered dreams, unexpected heartbreak, divorce or other major transitions—you need more than just time. You deserve a safe space for your heart to mend.
At The Heartbreak Hotel, we understand how deeply unsettling those moments can be—the sudden end of what you knew, and the uncertainty of what comes next so we’re here to help you rediscover your strength and hope.
Every heart that arrives here is welcomed exactly as it is, with exactly what it's carrying.
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Alice Haddon
The Psychology Behind the Movement
Alice Haddon is a counselling psychologist with 25 years experience, a university lecturer and author.
The Cabin
‘As I grew up, I had a recurrent longing for a remote, wooden cabin. This cabin was cosy, there was a fire, candle light, a blanket and most importantly a wise and kind person sitting by the fire. And this person was going to talk with me and help me to navigate the difficult questions of life, without having any vested interest in the answers. Difficult questions like…Who am I? What am I going to do? What to do with my feelings? Is what I’m feeling normal? Why are relationships complicated? Am I ok?
I guess this longing was in part because of the absence of this person in my own life, at that time. But I think, when strife hits we all long for this. Perhaps it’s a longing as ancient as time.
And so I became a psychologist, in part because of a long-standing interest in people, but also to be that person sitting in the cabin for anyone that needed a safe place to express themselves. The Heartbreak Hotel is this cabin, a place of refuge, where the tough stuff can be talked about without judgment and where new pathways forward can be forged.’
Our Four Pillars of Transformation
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Emotional recalibration
We help you process and integrate your heartbreak rather than simply moving past it, transforming pain into wisdom using evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
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Identity restoration
Heartbreak often shatters our sense of self. We guide you in rebuilding a stronger, more authentic identity that incorporates your growth through proven psychological frameworks.
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Relational renewal
Learning to trust, connect, and love again - both yourself and others - with greater wisdom and boundaries, informed by attachment science.
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Purpose realignment
Discovering how your experience of heartbreak can become a source of strength, empathy, and direction in your life through discovering what matters to you most.
Testimonials
The Heartbreak Hotel Book
Your Complete Guide to Healing
"A broken heart can leave us reeling. In the aftermath of a break-up, we can find ourselves lost in the endless rumination, the sad songs, and the late-night internet scrolling. But it doesn't have to be this way."
Alice Haddon and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, have created this revelatory guide for navigating heartbreak. Using therapeutic tools to revolutionise the way you process loss, this book will empower you to move beyond the betrayal and hurt, find yourself once more, and learn to seek and welcome love, both within and outside of yourself. Now translated into seven languages.
✓ Written as if you're a guest on our retreat
✓ Packed with therapeutic exercises
✓ Published globally in multiple languages
✓ Full of compassion, humour and wisdom
Retreats
We're redesigning our retreat experience to be even more transformational than ever before.
These immersive healing journeys will combine Alice's therapeutic expertise with carefully curated environments in the UK and beyond.
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