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  • Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief

  • A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss
  • By: Claire Bidwell Smith
  • Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith
  • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Summary

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief—and learn practical strategies for healing, based on the Kübler-Ross stages model.

If you're suffering from anxiety but not sure why, or if you're struggling with loss and looking for solace, Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief offers help and answers. As grief expert Claire Bidwell Smith discovered in her own life—and in her practice with her therapy clients—significant loss and unresolved grief are primary underpinnings of anxiety.

Using research and real life stories, Smith breaks down the physiology of anxiety, providing a concrete explanation that will help you heal. Starting with the basics questions—“What is anxiety?” and “What is grief?” and moving to concrete approaches such as making amends, taking charge, and retraining your brain, Anxiety takes a big step beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's widely accepted five stages to unpack everything from our age-old fears about mortality to the bare vulnerability a loss can make us feel.

With concrete tools and coping strategies for panic attacks, getting a handle on anxious thoughts, and more, Smith bridges these two emotions in a way that is deeply empathetic and profoundly practical.

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©2018 Claire Bidwell Smith (P)2018 Hachette Audio
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"[B]oth soothing and informative...Smith's words are particularly useful for panic attack sufferers...she shows you how you can normalize your panic."—New York Times Book Review

"In Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief, Claire Bidwell Smith has found yet another way to powerfully illuminate and deepen our understanding of what it means to grieve. Drawing upon her personal experience with deep loss as well as her many years of working as a grief counselor, Bidwell Smith offers fresh insight into the connection between grief and anxiety. Bidwell Smith's profound compassion for those who've experienced loss has already helped so many people. This trailblazing book will help many more."—Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild

"The world of grief—rote with repeated thoughts over what happened, what might have been, and what might be—provides the perfect breeding ground for anxiety. In pinpointing the connections between the two, Claire Bidwell Smith is the warm and wise friend guiding you toward deeper control over your thoughts, instead of your thoughts wielding control over you."—Rebecca Soffer, coauthor of Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome.

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Helpful after sudden and unexpected loss of father

Even though I don't believe the full magnatude of my grief and loss has been felt, I am hopeful that this book has equiped me with the tools to redirect my grief and anxiety into a more productive energy. I am the 37 year old son of my now deceased 68 year old father. I have always suffered from anxiety and fear of the unknown. The loss of my dad has exacerbated this anxiety. This book has been extremely helpful and I am actively using the advice contained within these pages to pick up the pieces and go out into the world and continue to live my life to the fullest. I highly recommend this book for anyone in a similar situation.

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