After This, Claire Bidwell Smith LCPC
After This, Claire Bidwell Smith LCPC
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After This
When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?

Author: Claire Bidwell Smith LCPC

Narrator: Claire Bidwell Smith LCPC

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2015

Synopsis

Claire Bidwell Smith follows The Rules of Inheritance with After This—an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal and part prescriptive, an invitation on a journey into the unknown.In her therapy practice specializing in grief, Smith confronts the quandary of what happens next. In a dynamic five-part structure, she answers the unanswerable questions—Will I ever see my parents again? Can my parents see me now, even though they are gone? Will I remain connected to my own daughters when I die?—for herself and for all of us. Chronicling our steps along the path that bridges this world and the next, she undergoes past-life regressions, sessions with mediums and psychics, and immerses herself in the ceremonies of organized religion and the rigors of scientific experimentation.After This is unique in the power of the personal that underlies the book's message: what we believe about what happens next affects everything about how we live—and love—right now.

About Claire Bidwell Smith LCPC

Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief counseling and the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori

Grief makes you crazy. If you want a one sentence review of this book, perhaps you can just stop reading here. And if you are grieving and feeling crazy, then go and get yourself a copy of this book, which is the author's one woman research project into the concept of the afterlife. After This is to......more

Goodreads review by Grumpus

This is going to be one of my longer commentaries because this book was just, wow. Beautiful, powerful, and moving. The timing of this read (listen) dovetails with something the author and I both have in common, daughters. This is the story of an only child who lost her mother when she was about 14......more

Goodreads review by Mary

My experience with this book feels tender and raw - almost like I want to protect my reading experience from any possible scrutiny because of how much this one meant to me. More than just a book I read, it was a life raft during one of the worst months of my life. Maybe I’ll come back someday and sa......more

Quotes

“With wisdom and grace, Claire Bidwell Smith navigates the mysteries of grief to show us that there is great meaning and even magic to be found in exploring the unknown.” Maria Shriver, New York Times bestselling author of What’s Heaven?

“With deep compassion, profound vulnerability, and transcendent lyricism, Claire Bidwell Smith embraces that which we so often run from in this culture: loss. This is a transformative book that will change the way you think about death, and by extension, life.” Jillian Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls

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