What happens when the heart breaks and the brain won't let go? In The Heart Is a Real Place, Christie Y. Shaw offers a rare blend of storytelling, psychological insights, and unapologetically faith-rooted wisdom. This book is a compassionate companion for women navigating heartbreak, emotional trauma, and spiritual rediscovery.

Shaw invites you into a love story that becomes a healing journey, tracing how memory, attachment, and "cycles" of thought keep us tethered, and how prayer, reflection, and renewed self-regard help us gently untether. With clarity and care, she shows why grief after love is both a "heart thing" and a "brain thing," and how to move through it without minimizing your pain or losing yourself.

If you're longing for language that validates your ache and a pathway that restores your worth, this book will meet you where you are, and walk with you toward who you're becoming.

Depth. Sincerity. Emotional resonance. You'll find them here, in a voice that feels like a steady hand on your shoulder.