Finding Meaning in Our Grief with David Kessler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2022
- In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with David Kessler about his new book, including how our relationships transcend death and how we can all continue to love and cherish those we’ve lost. They also discuss David’s friendship and work with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross; misconceptions about the five stages of grief; finding meaning as the sixth stage of grief; why all grief does not have trauma, but all trauma has grief; making the decision to participate in life after loss; the importance of telling our stories, and why our grief must be witnessed in order to be healed; creating a grief-literate society; why “what we avoid pursues us, what we face transforms us”; how our lost loved ones can move forward with us in life; being with and there for someone in grief; our “continuing bonds” with those we’ve lost, and how death can never end our relationships; and more.
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We do live in a grief illiterate society! Anybody who has suffered a devastating loss knows this. I lost my husband back in 2013 and I learned the hard way that most people in our society we will do anything to out run the grief, bury the grief and / or avoid it. I could go on and on in talking about friends disappearing and relatives disappearing and/ or turning on the person who has suffered the loss, turning on them with such devastating and shocking anger, which only adds to our grief . This was an awesome program! It is the textbook for our grief illiterate society. Whether you’ve Lost someone or not listening to this podcast will benefit anybody and everybody. My husband has been gone for nine years. My memories of him do not bring me pain anymore…. they bring me an amazing, feeling of immortal love with memories that make me smile and laugh. I now try to help the people around me that are just starting out on this dark and often lonely road. Thank you Tami and David!
This post made me smile. Thank you and best wishes to you!
I completely understand and am so sorry for your loss! We lost our son two years ago. Three months after he died a friend asked I wasn't feeling better! I wanted to say NO, I will never feel better! My life and world will never be the same. People are uncomfortable with death. Of course! Who wants to talk about death even though we will all face it.
Thank you for sharing
This was so helpful. Great questions from the interviewer and really thoughtful answers from Mr. Kessler- a great mix of personal experience and research. Thank you so much!
You must be free to express grief, disappointment, anger. You must have this emotional freedom, or you are like a person who is held in chains, chained to a wall.
You may have every advantage on the outside, but you are still like a person who is incarcerated within yourself, stifled by your own discord, by your own suppressed feelings and emotions.
*Your feelings and emotions in the future are meant to be vehicles of expressing something greater in life, but if you are choked and if your feelings are suppressed, how could you ever express anything greater in life?* Your whole mechanism of expression, your whole medium of expression-your ideas, your emotions, your feelings, your perception are all constrained.
From: Healing Relationships, by Marshall Vian Summers
Thank you very much, E K.
I can’t get out of my chains no matter what I do..it’s been 4 years. I am filled with guilt and regret for my sons death. So much left undone. I cannot forgive myself.
@@maureenwoodrich2983 I would recommend to do Steps to Knowlege by Marshall Vian Summers a life-changing book
Not me taking this as a sign to trauma dump on anyone and everyone like I used to in the past😅
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom... grace shall soon come, and it does.
Everything has changed. This is so helpful to be reminded when grieving
Thank you so much, Tami and David, for this incredible conversation. As someone who helps people navigate life changes and transitions, all of it resonated with me. I have many comments, but will simply say thank you and blessings!
Thank you Tami, and Dr Kessler. This was so informative, encouraging, supportive, and affirming.
7 Febuary 2022 🍒
Watching from Melbourne 🇦🇺
Thank you.
My wife passed 2 days ago. I can’t go on without her. She died from her heart now I’m close
Your love for your wife is beautiful and admirable and a shining example to us all of he kind of love we all seek in our lives, and you have lived it! That isan incredible gift. She was a gift to you and you a gift to her. I pray that you notice God as He comforts you in your grief, stays with you through it and loves you and you love her as He does. I pray you shall see her again. With love. God Bless. 🙏
It will not get any better BUT you will survive and live
This was a beautiful talk🙏 i’m not breathing now, but I have in the past, and perhaps in preparing myself for the future.
Perhaps I did not understand your comment, but I do not believe that when we are on our deathbed, that our friends, the crowds, they will not be grieving for us, as we transition from this journey, to our other journey.
They would be in a place of pure love, but there is no place for sadness, or grief. Thank you for your wonderful talk. 🙏
So intelligent and so needed.
Thank you ❤
Visualize your dreams as you already have them.
Much Love from a Law Of Attraction TH-camr 💜
Facebook telling someone they are sorry for their loss is something we all need to stop doing. I do not do this anymore. But I hate how people wish Happy Birthday on it too lol Our society is becoming lazy, fake and unmeaningful.