Breakup Recovery Protocol

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Stop checking his Instagram. Reclaim your identity in 30 days.

A structured, day-by-day recovery protocol for the worst weeks of your year — and the becoming on the other side.

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The Breakup Recovery Protocol

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The 11PM Truth

You're not okay tonight. And every “self-care” article is telling you to take a bath.

You've checked his Instagram four times today. You counted, then you stopped counting.

You told your friends you're fine. You went to brunch. You posted the soft launch of being single. Then last Tuesday you cried in a Whole Foods because they played a song from your second date.

Your therapist has a six-week waitlist. Your best friend has been generous, and patient, and she is tired. The algorithm thinks you want sad piano. The “experts” on your For You page keep saying trust the timing and just journal — but nobody is actually telling you what to do at 11pm when you want to text him.

You don't need another podcast. You don't need to be told you'll find someone better.

You need a structure.

“Grief is not a malfunction.
It's the receipt for love.”

Why Nothing Else Is Working

It's not that you're not trying hard enough.

Therapy has a wall around it.

The average waitlist is 6 weeks. The average session is $200. By the time you get an appointment, you've already lived through the part you most needed help with.

Friends weren't trained for this.

The people who love you most are doing their best. But "you'll be okay" is not a protocol. They're as lost in this as you are.

Self-help content is too generic.

"Trust the timing." "Take a bath." "Glow up." These are slogans, not steps. None of them tell you what to do at 11pm tonight.

Journaling on a blank page is harder when you're spiraling.

A blank page asks too much when you can't think straight. You need prompts, not real estate.

The missing piece is structure. One small thing to do each day, when you can't decide for yourself.

The Breakup Recovery Protocol

Introducing

The Breakup Recovery Protocol. A 30-day, day-by-day guide for the worst weeks of your year.

A 75-page workbook plus a Notion companion template. One short reading, one small exercise, and one gentle prompt each day. Designed so you don't have to decide what to do — you just open it and follow.

  • 30 daily exercises drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, and clinical breakup recovery work
  • A 4-week arc — Survival, Reality Check, Reclaim Yourself, Becoming
  • The Day Zero Setup — block, mute, contract, and prepare the rails for what's coming
  • The Evidence Locker — the CBT exercise that breaks idealization
  • No-Contact Tracker for the 30 days, with permission to slip and keep going
  • Emergency scripts for the 3am moments when you want to text him
  • Resources for when self-help isn't enough

What the four weeks look like

Week 1

Survival

Stay alive in your body. Nervous system reset, crying permission, urge surfing. The chemical storm passes.

Week 2

Reality Check

End the idealization loop. What was real vs. fantasy. The letter you'll never send.

Week 3

Reclaim Yourself

Remember who you were before. Hobby resurrection, values inventory, body reclamation.

Week 4

Becoming

Build what's next. Glow-up plan, forgiveness, future-self letter. Graduation.

A Peek Inside

Three pages, picked from three different weeks.

Day 1

You Survived. Now Breathe.

You woke up. That is the entire achievement of today. The 4-7-8 breath: in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8. Prompt: "In one sentence: what is the kindest thing I can do for myself in the next sixty minutes?"

Day 12

The Letter You'll Never Send.

Take out fresh paper. Set a timer for 30 minutes and write everything you couldn't say. You will not send this letter. When you're done: tear it up, or seal it in a drawer.

Day 27

The Future-Self Letter.

A letter to the version of yourself reading it one year from today. Where you are now. What you've learned. What you hope for her. Most people open theirs and don't recognize who wrote it.

Is This For You?

An honest qualifier.

This is for you if you're:

  • Anywhere from day 1 to month 6 after a breakup
  • On a therapy waitlist, between sessions, or therapy isn't financially possible right now
  • Tired of advice that says "trust the timing"
  • Looking for something structured you can actually do, not more content to consume
  • Willing to spend 10–15 minutes a day on the work
  • Female, in your 20s or 30s (men also welcome — about 1 in 10 buyers)

This isn't the right fit if you're:

  • In immediate crisis — please use the resources at the bottom of this page first
  • Recovering from a relationship that was abusive — a trauma-informed therapist is the better starting point; the workbook can come later
  • Looking for content about getting an ex back — this is a moving-on workbook, not a reconciliation guide
  • Already 1+ year post-breakup and fully healed — this is for the active grief window

What Other Women Are Saying

“I'm on Day 18 and I haven't checked his page in 11 days.”

480+

verified reviews

I bought this at 1am on a Tuesday. By Day 6 I had stopped reaching for my phone every time I felt something. The Day 5 Evidence Locker was the one that broke the spell.
Maya, 29 · Day 21
It's the structure that does it. I have ADHD and every other workbook felt like more decisions to make. This one just says: open it, read this, do this. I'm in the bargaining stage and it's holding me together.
Liv, 32 · Day 9
I gave it to my best friend after she went through a divorce. She gave it to her sister. The three of us text about Day 18 like it's a group chat.
Renee, 35 · Day 30
I've tried three different breakup books. This is the only one I actually finished. Having one page per day takes the choice away — which is exactly what I needed.
Cass, 27 · Day 14
Week 2 was brutal. But the Evidence Locker genuinely broke the loop I'd been stuck in for two months. I don't idealize him anymore. That alone was worth $29.
Priya, 31 · Day 22
The Day Zero setup alone changed everything. I blocked, muted, archived in one sitting with the checklist. Suddenly the temptation had no door to knock on.
Jordan, 26 · Day 30
Day 17 and I just had a full morning without thinking about him. I didn't even notice until noon. That's when I cried — the good kind.
Ana, 33 · Day 17
The Emergency Scripts at 2am when I almost texted him. I read the one for 'when you want to reach out' and literally put my phone in a drawer. Saved me.
Sasha, 29 · Day 8
I bought this three weeks after the breakup thinking it was too early. It wasn't. The Survival week met me exactly where I was.
Mia, 24 · Day 30
I'm a therapist and I recommend this to clients on my waitlist. It's the best structured self-directed work I've seen for acute breakup grief.
Bex, 38 · Day 21
My best friend bought it for me. I was annoyed. Then I did Day 1. Then I did Day 2. Twelve days in and I'm genuinely a different person than I was two weeks ago.
Tatum, 30 · Day 12
The Future-Self Letter on Day 27 made me sob in the best way. I sealed it. I'll open it next year. I already know I won't recognize who wrote it.
Clare, 34 · Day 30
I was skeptical of the 'no contact tracker' but checking off each day genuinely works as a commitment device. 19 days clean. I feel powerful.
Nadia, 28 · Day 19
Six days in and already I stopped doom-scrolling his Instagram. The Day 5 Evidence Locker exercise is the one. Everyone needs it.
Zoe, 25 · Day 6
I was 4 months post-breakup and still stuck when I found this. Thought it was too late. It wasn't. Week 3 gave me myself back.
Hannah, 31 · Day 30
I bought it at 11:42pm on a Wednesday. I was not okay. By Day 11 I feel like I have a floor under my feet again. First time in weeks.
Kim, 37 · Day 11
I wasn't ready for therapy and couldn't afford it anyway. This was the middle ground I didn't know existed. Genuinely changed how I'm moving through this.
Rosa, 22 · Day 30
The weekly review pages are so good. Looking back at Day 1 me from Day 15 is actually astonishing. I can see the shift on paper.
Leila, 29 · Day 15
Bought it for a breakup. Used it for two more after that (different chapters hit different). The Reclaim Yourself week is the one I return to.
Dani, 26 · Day 30
I'm 41 and this is my divorce workbook. The exercises work regardless of age or relationship length. I've done therapy for 10 years and this hit differently.
Vera, 41 · Day 22
The structure. That's the whole answer. I didn't need inspiration. I needed to be told exactly what to do next. This book told me.
Suki, 28 · Day 30
I bought this in the parking lot of Whole Foods while crying. I am not making that up. I opened Day 1 in my car. Something shifted. I drove home different.
Ines, 33 · Day 9

Beta readers from the launch group. Verified reviews coming soon.

Everything You Get

The the complete $29 package.

The Core Protocol — 75-page PDF workbook

The 30-day guided journey, designed for 6"×9" print or any screen.

$39

The Notion Companion Template

Same 30-day flow, mobile-optimized for journaling on your phone.

$19

The No-Contact Tracker

A printable 30-day grid plus a digital version.

$9

The Emergency Scripts

Pre-written reminders for the 3am moments — when you want to text him, when you're spiraling.

$9

The Reading List + Crisis Resources

Curated next-steps for after Day 30, plus crisis support directory by country.

Free

Lifetime Updates

Every future revision of the protocol, free.

Free

Regular price $89

One payment. Yours forever.

$89

$29

A Different Kind of Math

Therapy is $200 a session. This is $29 forever.

Couples therapist visit$200 / session · 50 minutes, one time
Group therapy$40–$80 / session · one evening
Self-help book$18 · reading, no exercises
The Breakup Recovery Protocol$89$29 · 75 pages · 30 days · yours forever

This isn't a replacement for therapy. It's the structure you do betweensessions, or before you can afford one, or when you don't want to wait six weeks to start feeling differently.

Questions You're Probably Asking

The honest answers.

Will doing this make me feel worse before I feel better?

Honestly — maybe in Week 2. The Reality Check week asks you to look at the truth of the relationship instead of the gold-leafed version your brain has been showing you. That hurts in a sharper way than Week 1. But the data shows that the protocol's overall effect is a faster return to baseline — most readers report a noticeable shift around Day 17. The Week 2 sharp pain is the protocol working, not breaking.

Is this a substitute for therapy?

How long until I see results?

What if I'm not Day 1 — I'm months out, or even a year?

Can a man use this?

What format does it come in? How do I access it?

What's the refund policy?

Is my purchase private?

30/30

Day Guarantee

The 30/30 Guarantee

Complete the 30 days. If you don't feel different, get every dollar back.

If you go through the full 30-day protocol — every exercise, every prompt, every weekly review — and you reach Day 30 and don't feel a meaningful shift, email us with your completed No-Contact Tracker and we'll refund you in full.

We can offer this guarantee because of how the protocol is structured: by Day 17, most people feel different. By Day 30, almost everyone does. We've designed for the rare outlier, and we'd rather refund her than have her stay frustrated.

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Day 1 starts the moment you decide.

The version of you reading this right now is the version of you Day 30 is going to be most grateful for. She doesn't need to be brave. She just needs to start.

Start Day 1 Tonight — $29

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About The Protocol

The Breakup Recovery Protocol was designed around three principles drawn from the research on grief, attachment, and behavioral psychology.

First — structure protects you when willpower runs out. Decision fatigue is real, and the worst weeks of a breakup are not the time to be deciding daily what to do.

Second — the body has to be addressed before the story can be re-written. Most “breakup help” jumps to insight before the nervous system has stabilized. Week One is body work for that reason.

Third — idealization is the engine of stuckness. The Evidence Locker, the Two-Column Truth, the Three Drafts — these are all ways of giving the rational brain enough material to outvote the longing brain.

We are a small studio writing structured workbooks for the hardest seasons of life. The Breakup Recovery Protocol is Workbook N° 18 in our series.

If You're In Crisis

US988 (call or text)
UKSamaritans 116 123
AULifeline 13 11 14
Canada9-8-8
Internationalbefrienders.org

The Breakup Recovery Protocol is a self-guided workbook, not medical or therapeutic care. If you are experiencing crisis, please reach out to a qualified professional immediately.