Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

It's easy to miss the interplay between anxiety and grief. Claire Tidwell Smith brings this connection to the forefront in this meaningful, easy-to-read book. Exploring both topics, and looking at how they influence each other, the book is filled with useful, easy-to-apply ideas. Highly recommended!

This is the first review I ever wrote, but I had to say how much this book healed me. I had to put my 15 year old dog down and started having panic attacks soon after. I never had a panic attack in my life and it scared me. I knew it must have been something to do with loosing her so I purchased this book. I can't tell you how much this book made me understand my feelings. I did all of the grief work it suggested and by the middle of the book I had no more panic attacks or anxiety!!! Thank you so much to the author of this book. This helped me to put my life back together.

After my dad passed away from COVID, I was struggling. I still am, but I am doing better. What I found is that psychotherapy [sessions with a psychotherapist] rarely takes you far just by itself, you need to do your own work in your own time. And you need guidance for that. If you are a kind of person that likes to be proactive about their own healing, and feels better by just doing something, (anything really) to try to cope - this book will be perfect for you. It is hard to go through a loss on your own, with this book you have a feeling like you are not...

My beloved mother died and I was overwhelmed by grief and anxiety. As the pain of grief subsided the anxiety did not. This book is full of helpful steps to understand anxiety and keep moving forward. Very well written. It has been very helpful.

I love this book so much I already bought a second copy for a friend. I lost an aunt who was like a second mother to me in April and felt like I was struggling through the grief process. I love that not only did this make me feel like everything I was going through was not only normal, but also gave me exercises to help me work through my grief in a healthy way. I'm now a bit more than six months out from the loss and I feel like it's helped me to find the gift in all of this and become more resilient. This is a really helpful book that I now recommend to anyone who's struggling through a loss.

I found this book helpful, kind, sincere, and smart. I read it 6 months after the death of my father. It helped with many feelings I was having around his death, and it really helped with the unexpected anxiety I was feeling. I found it helpful, as well, in forging a new way forward with my mother, who lost her best friend and partner of 61 years. I also found the booked helped me deal with some very old grief around some childhood issues with my dad. The author speaks from both years of experience working as a grief therapist and from her own personal experiences of loss. I've bought copies of the book for several relatives and friends, including my mother (who is also finding it very helpful).

I’m only part way through Ch 1 but need to tell you - THANK YOU. It’s incredible to have confirmed that all these things I’ve experienced since my baby died are NORMAL. And there are things I can do to help.

Walking through grief is so frightening to begin with, but when anxiety sets in it starts to feel like a wilderness that you’ll never find your way out of. This book helps to normalize those feelings and soothe many fears by breaking down exactly what is happening and showing the path to working through that wilderness.

This is a really excellent book, it’s easy to read and I found this book comforting, helped me to put things into perspective as well

In dealing with the bouts of panic that arise after many years of delayed grief + long ago trauma, this book, with its vignettes + personal stories has been so helpful. I'm grateful for it.

My mother died twelve years ago yet I still found this book really helpful! It doesn't matter for how long you have been without your loved one. This book will impart pearls of wisdom. It had a lot of philosophy within and I felt wiser for reading it and also calmer. I love how she says you may keep your love one alive if you like. So many books tell you to get on with life, to get over it when you feel like a limb has been removed. Sensitive gentle writer. Really enjoyed reading each chapter.

This book has made me realize so much, it described my current experience to a T and gave me tools to help me heal. Excellent!!

This book is amazing!My husband and I lost our daughter to stillbirth recently. I was suffering from a lot of anxiety and panic attacks, that were interfering with my day to day life. This book has given me incredible tools to use to help my anxiety, and essentially stop it.Highly recommended.