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Jan 17, 2021 · He was on a lecture tour when his son Richard, the eldest of two boys he had adopted in 2000, phoned to say his younger brother David, 21, had been found dead. As children they had a traumatic...
His son, David, died three years ago of an accidental drug overdose at 21. The agony and paralysis that he felt — being a grief expert doesn’t exempt you from the pain — thawed eventually,...
As many of you know, my 21-year-old son, David Kessler Jr. died unexpectedly about three weeks ago. The pain of this loss has been shattering.
Nov 2, 2019 · Books. I thought I knew everything about grief, until my 21-year-old son died. My journey with grief began at 13, when I witnessed a mass shooting at the same time my mother was dying. David...
You may be familiar with the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. After decades of research and his own experience with tragic loss, grief expert David Kessler ventured beyond that classic framework and sought a sixth, crucial stage: meaning. He shares practical wisdom and strategies for anyone seeking to honor a loved one's memory and move through life ...
Nov 4, 2019 · In a new book, “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief,” David Kessler, a grief expert who himself needed to find meaning following the sudden death of his 21-year-old son, writes that...
In 2016, after his son David Kessler Jr. died from an accidental drug overdose amid the opioid crisis, Kessler received permission from Kübler-Ross's family and the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, which her son Ken Ross founded, to write Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, where he wrote about a sixth stage of grief, finding meaning.
