Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

By Claire Bidwell Smith

Book Overview

A groundbreaking book exploring the little-known yet critical connections between anxiety and grief, with practical strategies for healing, following the renowned K 1/4Ross stages model

If you're suffering form 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. Significant loss and unresolved grief are primary underpinnings of anxiety, something that grief expert Claire Bidwell Smith discovered in her own life and in her practice with her therapy clients. Now, using research and real life stories, Smith breaks down the physiology of anxiety, giving you a concrete foundation of understanding in order to help you heal. Starting with the basics of 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 K 1/4Ross'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 eminently practical.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073823477X
• ISBN13: 9780738234779
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Absolute Must Read

I cannot speak more highly of this book. My mom died when I was very young; I thought I was “lucky” that I didn’t remember it. I thought I skipped over grief. Until I became a mom myself and began to experience grief over what she and I both lost, and debilitating anxiety that something would happen to me/my kids too. I have never felt more understood than when I read this book. Claire validated all of my feelings, my physical symptoms, helped me see how they are all linked to anxiety and unresolved grief. She speaks from her own similar experience, and similar experiences of so many of her therapy clients that made me feel less alone. Claire does an amazing job of making this book comforting, not heavy. I highly recommend it!