Replay: Claire Bidwell Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Living and Writing After Loss
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
"For more than twenty years, I have worked in support of all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of grief. In doing so, I have discovered the great degree to which writing can be a powerful tool to help people process their own responses to loss. Giving private voice to experiences and emotions often also serves as a gateway from which people can better understand and reconcile what it means to lose a person they love."
– Claire Bidwell Smith, Five Things I’ve Learned about Living and Writing After Loss
Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of multiple books including Conscious Grieving and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief. 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 loss.
Claire’s three books of nonfiction have been published in 19 countries, and received many accolades and critical praise. The Rules of Inheritance is currently optioned for television rights. In addition to having given dozens of talks on grief, Claire has written for The New York Times, Scientific American, The Washington Post, Goop, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Slate, Chicago Public Radio, The Guardian, Psychology Today, Yoga Journal, and BlackBook Magazine. Her thoughts, insights and interviews have been featured on MSNBC, Good Day LA, Today.com, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, NPR, Forbes, Conde Nast Traveler, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah Magazine, Self Magazine, Shape Magazine, and dozens of radio shows and podcasts.
In her class, Five Things I’ve Learned about Living and Writing After Loss, Claire draws on her personal and professional experience, sharing what she's come to recognize as the unavoidable, fundamental challenges that accompany grieving and loss. She shares her sense of the ways that everyone can better understand and approach anxiety and loss, and she offers practical writing exercises anyone can use to better experience and understand grief and integrate loss into their lives in hopeful and meaningful ways.
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