Claire Bidwell Smith, CONSCIOUS GRIEVING: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Renowned grief therapist (and future Zibby Books author!) Claire Bidwell Smith comes back on the podcast, this time to discuss CONSCIOUS GRIEVING: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss. As she and Zibby delve into the book's core themes, Claire shares her personal journey of loss—having lost both her parents at a young age—and how it led to a career in grief counseling. She also shares insights on the grieving process, touches on its misconceptions, and offers practical advice and encouragement for those facing it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
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| 0:22.2 | at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.1 | Claire Bidwell-Smith is back on Moms and Have Time to Read Books after, I think, a four or |
| 0:35.5 | five-year hiatus. She is the author of Conscious Grieving, a transformative approach to healing from loss. She is a therapist, specializing in the grief, which is an understatement because she is like one of the leaders in the grief field. She is the author of the Rules of Inherence, a memoir, which is really one of my favorite memoirs, a books for a Better Life Award nominee. She also wrote, after this, when life is over, where do we go? And anxiety, the missing stage of grief. An expert in her field, she has spoken on countless news, outlets, radio, and podcast shows, and consults companies like Twitter, Good RX, Damani for Grief, and the National Funeral Home Home Association and sits on the board of Endwell. |
| 1:11.5 | Her writing has been featured in many national publications, including the New York Times, |
| 1:15.1 | The Atlantic Scientific American Psychology Today and Oprah Magazine. |
| 1:18.8 | And she is hopefully writing a memoir for Zippy Books. |
| 1:23.8 | Welcome, Claire. |
| 1:24.6 | Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss conscious grieving, a transformative approach to healing from loss. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:27.9 | conscious grieving, a transformative approach to healing from loss. Thank you, Zippy. It's always good to see you. |
| 1:33.6 | So so much has happened between us since our last podcast on the show. If listeners want to Google or |
| 1:40.3 | you know, search our past, our last episode was forever ago. |
| 1:44.7 | And I had read your book. |
| 1:46.3 | I was such a massive fan. |
| 1:48.1 | I could not believe I got to see you in L.A. |
| 1:51.4 | And that you were coming to my house. |
| 1:53.1 | And then you showed up with your baby. |
| 1:55.2 | We passed between us the whole time. |
| 1:57.9 | And I was like, oh, my gosh, Claire Bidwell-Smith is like in my dining room with her baby. |
| 2:02.2 | This is so cool. It was one of those like, you know, mom moments where I suddenly like lost |
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