Behind The Book: Black Woman Grief with Natasha Smith

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Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Episode Description: In this episode, Christina and Ekemini sit down with Natasha Smith to discuss her book Black Woman Grief: A Guide to Hope and Wholeness. We discuss the particularities of Black woman grief, the importance of making time to grieve, the place of therapy, the church, and spiritual disciplines when it comes to our grief.

Learn more about Natasha Smith:

Natasha Smith is a grief advocate, speaker, and podcast host. She is the author of Can You Just Sit with Me? Healthy Grieving for the Losses of Life. Her work has appeared in Guideposts, Propel Women, Influence magazine, her.BIBLE, and elsewhere. She and her husband, Clinton, have four children and live near Raleigh, North Carolina. You can find her online at imnatashasmith.com.

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0:00.0	This episode of Truth's Table is brought to you by our N-AACP Image Award nominated book,
0:06.3	Truth's Table, Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation.
0:11.1	Get it where all books are sold.
0:14.0	Sisters, how y'all feel?
0:16.1	Brothers, y'all all right?
0:17.8	If this is your first time at Truth's Table, welcome to the table.
0:21.3	And if you've been sitting at the table with us all these years, we are so grateful that you
0:25.5	have been listening to us through these years, and we are inviting you to partner with us
0:29.6	and support our work at patreon.com slash Truth Table. Now pull up a chair and have a seat at the
0:36.3	table with us.
0:37.6	Hey y'all. Welcome to Truth Table, Midwise and Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm McCaminy.
0:41.7	And I'm Christina.
0:42.9	This table is built by black women and for a black woman. So welcome to the table. See, how you
0:47.0	doing, Gah? I'm doing decently. Decently. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm focused on that, which is good. How are you doing?
0:56.2	I mean, doing decent during a hostile government takeover. And then some. And then some.
1:02.4	Okay. So I'd say same, same, same. So glad to be back at the table with you. And I'm glad to be back to the table for this particular episode because we have another behind the book.
1:15.4	Come on now.
1:16.4	The people be riding and we be bringing them to the table.
1:19.3	Listen, as we tell the students, readers are leaders.
1:23.3	You got to read.
1:24.5	You got to read.
1:25.2	Amen.
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