Claire Bidwell Smith

Conscious Grieving (eBook, ePUB)

A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From one of the leading grief therapists, this compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offers a new framework for understanding and navigating loss. An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation's top grief therapists. Conscious Grieving is a book for anyone seeking guidance and support after loss. Renowned grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith combines her deeply personal experience of loss with her long career spent working with thousands of people to introduce a new approach to grief, one that promotes hope and even transformation.

What does it mean to grieve consciously? Most of the time, when we lose someone we love, it feels like grief is just happening to us. We feel out of control, and overwhelmed. Claire reminds us that while loss is something that inevitably happens to all of us, how we choose to grieve is up to us. When we can consciously engage with our grief, rather than avoiding it, we can access profound pathways to healing.

Presented in a series of thoughtful, brief vignettes that don't overwhelm the reader, Conscious Grieving offers a new framework for each stage of grief: Entering, Engaging, Surrendering, and Transforming.

• Entering - staying present and taking care of ourselves as we navigate the shock and upheaval of a new loss.
• Engaging - navigating that first year after a loss by staying in tune with our needs as more complicated feelings of depression, guilt or anger surface.
• Surrendering - facing the changes to our identity and who we are becoming in the face of loss.
• Transforming - through ritual, honor, hope, and grace, and learning to carry our grief with intention so that we can continue to grow, heal, and thrive.

Grief asks a lot from us. But the ability to grieve is a birthright. We grieve throughout our lifetimes. We grieve the deaths of loved ones yes, but also moves, divorce, illness, injustice, time lost, changes in the world and healing from these losses requires that we evaluate everything we ever considered meaningful. Healing means making our lives worth the pain we endure when we lose someone we love. And transforming through grief is an opportunity afforded to all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781523526970
• Artikelnr.: 68370207

Autorenporträt

Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief, and author of The Rules of Inheritance, a Books for a Better Life award nominee, After this: When Life is Over Where Do We Go?, and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief. An expert in her field, she's spoken on countless news outlets, radio, and podcast shows, and consults companies like Twitter, GoodRx, Domani for Grief, and The National Funeral Home Association, and sits on the board of End Well. Her writing has been featured in many national publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Oprah Magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
 
How to Use This Book
 
Part One
Entering into Grief
 
An Invitation
Meet Yourself Where You Are
A Note for Those with Complicated Relationships
You Will Never Be the Same
What Is Grief?
Types of Grief
What Grief Isn’t
It’s Okay—This Is Normal
When You Fall Apart
What Grief Feels Like
The Physicality of Grief
A Note on Yearning
When Fear Arises
When You Panic
A Note on Memory
Permission to Laugh
How Long Does Grief Last?
You Are Your Own Grief Expert
What the World Expects
Contemplations
 
Part Two
Engaging with Grief
 
What Does It Mean to Engage with Grief?
A Note About Avoiding Your Grief
The Effects of Grief on the Brain
Recognizing Trauma
About Guilt
Making Amends and Seeking Forgiveness
About Depression
About Grief-Related Anxiety
About Anger
About Shame and Stigma
Secondary Losses
A Note on Multiple Losses
A Note About Shared Grief
Grief Triggers
How to Talk About Your Grief
The One-Year Arc of Grief
About Holidays and Anniversaries
Contemplations
 
Part Three
Surrendering to Grief
 
What Does It Mean to Surrender to Grief?
Who Are You Now?
When Everyone Drops Away and You Are Still Grieving
Coping with Insensitivity
Recognizing Destructive Tendencies
Navigating Professional Grief Support
Further Notes on Anxiety
Practicing Self-Compassion
ThoughtsàEmotionsàBehavior
Integrating Your Loss
Cultivating Resilience
Two Things Can Be True
Where Is My Person
Contemplations
 
Part Four
Transforming Through Grief
The Other Side of Loss
Post-Loss Growth
The Long Arc of Loss
Your Story of Grief
Continuing Your Connection
Exploring the Afterlife
Embracing Ritual
About Honor and Legacy
The Passage of Time
Hope and Grace and Forgiveness
Meaning Is Yours for the Making
Being of Service
Embracing Death
An Opportunity
Contemplations
 
Part Five
Your Grief Toolkit
Why It’s Worth Exploring the Five Stages and Other Models
Meeting Yourself in Grief
Tools for Grief
How to Ask for Help
Rituals to Rely On