029. Sifting Through Grief With Claire Bidwell-Smith

This week on The 4Ms (# 029), I teamed up with Claire Bidwell Smith (grief therapist and author), and we talked about grief + strategies to get you through your hardest days.

Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of three books of nonfiction: The Rules of Inheritance, After This: When Life is Over Where Do We Go? and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief. Claire offers numerous online programs for grief in addition to working with people one-on-one. Led by her own experiences with grief, and fueled by her work in hospice and private practice, Claire strives to provide support for all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of grief. In addition to having given dozens of talks on grief, Claire has written for and been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, The LA Times, MSNBC, The Chicago Tribune, Goop, Oprah Magazine, and Psychology Today. She deeply loves her work and is devoted to expanding the conversation about grief and loss.

In this episode with Claire (# 029 ), we talked about...

- Claire's story of losing both of her parents to cancer, her journey into motherhood,  her journey through grief, becoming a grief therapist, and authoring three books through it all. 
- We discussed how grief ebbs and flows throughout all of our lives, and ways to sift through it.
-  Her journaling techniques, prompts, and where to start with stream of conscious writing.
- Her mindfulness practices she uses every day.
- How writing letters to loved ones who have passed (or writing a letter to anything you are grieving) can be a healing experience.

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