214: What you're experiencing is probably grief—here's how to cope | David Kessler, grief expert

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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David Kessler: "We weren’t meant to be islands of grief. We can’t physically be together but we can virtually hold each others hands." Kessler, a bestselling author and the world’s foremost expert on grief and loss, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the different types of grief during the coronavirus and how to deal with loss right now, plus: *How to show up for people when you can't be close* *How grieving will change after COVID-19* *Why meaning is the 6th stage of grief* *How our society has messed up our grieving process* *How to grieve with love instead of pain* To learn more about our probiotic+, visit mindbodygreen.com/probiotic. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Also be sure to check out Kessler's daily grief counseling Facebook group, which you can find at https://www.facebook.com/groups/DavidKessler/?fref=mentions&__tn__=K-R. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Hey everyone, Jason here and I am so honored that we have David Kessler with us today.
0:56.0	David is the world's foremost expert on grief.
1:00.0	We could just stop there, but we'll go on a little bit more.
1:03.0	He's co-authored the seminal book on grief and grieving and life lessons with the
1:09.0	famous Elizabeth Kubar Ross.
1:11.0	You Can Heal Your Heart, with Louise Hay, the spiritual icon.
1:16.8	And he's also the author of Finding Meaning, Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms and The needs of the dying, which is praised by Mother Teresa.
1:26.0	And his latest bus read is called Finding Meeting, the Sixth Stage of Grief.
1:32.0	He's been featured pretty much everywhere in New York Times,
1:34.4	L.A. Times, CNN, Fox, NBC, PBS, CBS, Oprah, I could go on and on.
1:39.7	Quite simply when it comes to grief, David is the expert and it's so humbling to be spending time
1:48.8	with him right now. So David, welcome.
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