Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief by Claire Bidwell Smith

Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief by Claire Bidwell Smith

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief--and learn practical strategies for healing, based on the Kübler-Ross stages model.

If you're suffering from 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. As grief expert Claire Bidwell Smith discovered in her own life--and in her practice with her therapy clients--significant loss and unresolved grief are primary underpinnings of anxiety.

Using research and real life stories, Smith breaks down the physiology of anxiety, providing a concrete explanation that will help you heal. Starting with the basics questions--"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 Kübler-Ross'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 profoundly practical.

Claire Bidwell Smith is a grief therapist and the author of the memoir The Laws of Inheritance, which has been adapted into a big film picture starring Jennifer Lawrence. She currently resides in Los Angeles.