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What do we do when our culture doesn’t allow us the time and space to grieve well?

Brent talks with Natasha Smith a wife, mother and writer from North Carolina.  Her new book from IVP is ‘Can You Just Sit With Me?: Healthy Grieving for the Losses of Life’. Natasha’s work has appeared at ‘Her View From Home’, ‘Focus on the Family’ and ‘TODAY parents’. 

• (0:55) How we can all comfort those who grieve;
• ((1:25) Sitting with people;
• (4:00) Natasha’s experience of God’s comfort;
• (5:35) Ways we experience grief;
• (6:55) Grief ‘triggers’;
• (9:10) Grief exercises;
• (10:15) Why our culture is so impatient with grief;
• (11:30) Workplaces and grief;
• (14:30) Grief and growth;
• (15:30) Collective grief since 2020;
• (17:30) Invisible grief;
• (20:30) Sabbath and grief.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/Can-You-Just-Sit-Me/dp/1514006219/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

imnatashasmith.com

www.ivpress.com

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