Can You Just Sit With Me? (An Interview with Natasha Smith)
In this powerful episode, Dr. Wai Jia sits down with Natasha Smith, grief educator and author of Can You Just Sit With Me? Healthy Grieving for the Losses of Life, to explore what it means to grieve well.
Natasha has experienced multiple heartbreaking losses—miscarriage, stillbirth, divorce, giving up her first baby for adoption, the loss of her two older sisters and dad to cancer, the murder of her nephew, and the loss of a prestigious engineering career to homeschool her 4 kids. Through it all, she discovered that every loss deserves space and grace to grieve.
Together, Dr. Wai Jia and Natasha discuss:
Why invisible grief is real and valid
How to create safe spaces in community
Practical tools to process grief: talking it out, writing it out, and moving it out
How grief can manifest physically, and how to release it
The myth that Christians can't grieve and still be a witness of faith
The comfort of God's presence in our grieving
If you've ever struggled with shame around grief, or wondered how to support someone who's hurting, this heartfelt conversation will remind you: you are seen, you are not alone, and God is sitting with you.
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