David joins us today to explore the tools for releasing pain and remembering with love, and his new book, Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief Workbook: Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love. This companion workbook to his bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, will help individuals come to understand their unique and personal experience with grief and begin to work through the loss, releasing the hurt and learning to grieve with more love than pain.
David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss.
His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even afterlife’s tragedies.
He is the author of six books, including the new bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief.
He coauthored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, including On Grief and Grieving updated her 5 stages for grief. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.
David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey.
For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. He facilitates talks, workshops and retreats for those experiencing grief.
However, despite his vast knowledge on grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. It inspired him to write his newest book, Finding Meaning.
David’s volunteer work includes being an LAPD Specialist Reserve for traumatic events as well as having served on the Red Cross’s disaster services team.
He worked for over a decade in a three-hospital system. He was trained for bio -terrorists’ events as well as epidemics/ pandemics.
David is the founder of www.grief.com which has over five million visits yearly from 167 countries.