The Breakup Recovery Course: The 5R Method 

The Breakup Recovery Course: The 5R Method is a self-paced online breakup recovery course designed to help you regulate your nervous system, make sense of what this ending stirred, release old relationship patterns, and rebuild trust with yourself without rushing your healing.
  •  Instructor: Holly McCusker,   MS Ed., CPC-ELI-MP
  • Modules: 5
  • Audio Content
  • Assessments
  • Learning Activities
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    What's included?

    ✔ 5 Core Healing Modules 

    A step-by-step guided journey through:

    Recognize – emotional clarity & grief mapping

    Regulate – nervous system stabilization after heartbreak

    Relate – attachment styles & relational blueprint

    Release – origin wounds, unconscious contracts & cycle-breaking

    Reclaim – self-trust, new standards & future relationship vision

    Each module is designed to meet you exactly where you are without rushing your process or bypassing your pain.

    ✔ Audio-First Teaching for Deep Integration

    All core teachings are delivered through immersive audio so you can learn while walking, resting, journaling, or regulating your nervous system in real time. This allows your body, not just your mind, to integrate the work.

    ✔ Attachment & Origin Wound Mapping Tools

    Discover your attachment style, identify your primary origin wound, and uncover the unconscious emotional contracts that have shaped your relationships, so you can finally choose differently.

    ✔ Future Relationship Blueprint & Core Values Mapping

    You won’t just heal the past, you’ll design your future. You’ll clarify your relationship values, boundaries, and standards so future love isn’t built from survival patterns, but from self-trust.

    ✔ Guided Reflections, Prompts & Integration Practices

    You’ll receive powerful journaling prompts, emotional mapping tools, and nervous-system-friendly integration practices for each phase so insight turns into real change, not just awareness.

    ✔  Pattern Interruption & Letting-Go Tools

    Practical tools to help you release emotional bonds, break repetitive cycles, and move forward without suppressing your grief or hardening your heart.

    ✔  Full-Year Access to Course Content

    Move through the course at your own pace and revisit any phase whenever grief resurfaces or a new layer of healing emerges.

    Here’s what participants have shared about their experience in this work.

    The multiple different categories The Navigating Heartbreak course and coaching completely changed my perspective on breakups and helped get me to the best place possible before thinking about my next partnership. The thing I enjoyed most about this course was realizing that breakups truly can be a devastating loss which are deserving of proper grieving. It was really comforting to hear others who are or were experiencing all of the same emotions as myself. Holly is warm, understanding, and full of wisdom, as are all of the Coaches on her team.
    I came into this program, hoping to win my girlfriend back, but halfway through I recognized we were not aligned and that our relationship was not meant to last a lifetime. I have learned so much about myself and my relationship core values. 
    Nick Davis
    While no one loves a breakup, I am so grateful that it happened because this course offered me a real-world practicum to better understand what I bring to a relationship and, ultimately, what I need. Not only did this course help me process what just happened to me, working through the full range of emotions, it also showed me that the relationship I was sad to see go would not have ultimately been the healthy, fulfilling relationship I'm seeking. I now have the tools to better understand myself and others, and be more intentional in my relationships moving forward. While I wish I could have taken this course before the heartache, the real world application made it all the more meaningful. I'm so glad I was able to combine this course with coaching from Holly to use this breakup as a milestone in my personal journey toward finding a healthy, committed relationship.
    Nick Davis
    I think I know more about myself, my needs, my ex-boyfriend's shortcomings and therefore what I was settling for; and I feel that I am better prepared going into any next potential relationship.  Holly was calm, a good fact-gatherer, caring and supportive, allowing me to move forward at a pace that was manageable for me.
    I wish I had found this course and coaching sooner. If I had these tools and awareness of my attachment style and origin wounds, I think I would still be with my girlfriend. I have learned so much about how relationship dynamics work. 
    Nick Davis
    Meet the instructor

    Holly McCusker, MS Ed. CPC-ELI-MP

    I didn’t create this work from theory alone; I created it from lived experience. I know what it’s like to love deeply, lose suddenly, question yourself, and wonder if you’ll ever feel steady again. My own journey through heartbreak became the doorway into understanding nervous systems, attachment patterns, and the emotional blueprints that shape our relationships. Over the years, I’ve blended that personal healing with professional training to support hundreds of people through breakups, relational trauma, and pattern repetition. I believe heartbreak isn’t meant to break you; it’s meant to wake you up to who you really are. This course is the guide I wish I had when I was finding my way back to myself.
    Patrick Jones - Course author
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