Ep. 72 Navigating Our Grief with Therapist Claire Bidwell Smith

Recovering From Reality

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Right now many of us are in a state of grief. We may have lost our jobs. We might be grieving the loss of any sense of normality. We may have lost a love one. Maybe we had to cancel major events, like a wedding, birthday party or funeral. Maybe we still haven’t grieved our past experiences. Now that the majority of us are stuck at home, we may feel old, unresolved issues bubbling up to the surface. And we are not alone- our children are grieving too. In this weeks episode grief expert and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith joins me on the podcast, where we discuss what grief is, the stages of healing, and how we can best move forward after covid.

If you enjoyed this episode you can learn more about Claire at www.clairebidwellsmith.com

you can always follow along with us on Instagram @recoveringfromreality or visit our website at www.recoveringfromreality.com

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.6	The whole world is grieving and I think that you're right, we're grieving not just the loss of
0:45.3	people. We are losing a lot of people and we know people who are dying and we know people who
0:49.2	are losing people and that is very real and very big grief but we're grieving the life we were
0:55.2	living six weeks ago. We're grieving the summer we were going to have, we're grieving our kids
0:59.7	missing their friends and their teachers and their classroom environments. We're grieving the
1:04.0	loss of jobs and companies that are falling apart and money and paychecks and we're grieving our
1:09.7	sanity. You know, like you said, we're grieving our identities. We're all changing because of this
1:14.2	in massive ways and I think we're also being forced to sit in this really big sea of uncertainty
1:21.8	right now which I think is really challenging for people.
1:27.6	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Claire Bedwell. I'm so
1:32.9	excited for you guys to hear this episode. Many of you have been DMing me just feeling overwhelmed
1:40.3	with grief. Grief of, you know, the loss of our realities of our normal day-to-day experience,
1:50.8	many of us have lost jobs, losing loved ones, missing out on weddings, having to cancel our
1:58.5	weddings and maybe even mourning the past are experiences that are currently bubbling up to
2:08.3	the surface because we are home and things are quiet and we're starting to kind of wake up to
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