Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. As we enter into our sixth year of the Commune podcast, we are republishing some of our most popular interviews with teachers who now have full-length courses on the

commune course platform. This interview with David Kessler is from 2023. David is one of the

world's foremost experts on grief and loss. And as you'll hear, he didn't choose this vocation

as a child. It chose him. He is the author

of six books, including two with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and the recent bestseller, Finding

Meaning, the Sixth Stage of Grief. In our conversation, we discussed the importance of grief

and healing and even finding meaning in the suffering.

Now grief is inevitable, and we all know this at some level.

However, we never receive any training in how to do it.

So David provides essential tools and concepts that help us process grief and move through it.

David also shares his transformational story that propelled him into his life's work.

He offers a definition for grief and takes me through some exercises that help remove judgment

and emotional salience from the events that we cannot change.

We explore different types of grieving and discuss the possibility of cultivating post-traumatic growth.

If you like what you hear in today's interview, David Kessler has a full-length video course on Commune titled Help for the Hurting Heart.

You can watch all of our courses, including David's, for free with a 14-day trial of

commune membership. Just go to one commune.com slash trial to sign up for free.

In total, commune membership now includes more than 150 courses on

Integrative Medicine, Nutrition, Spirituality, Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Personal Growth, and

really so much more, everything that you need in your life to be holistically well. And you

can access all of that at Onecommune.com slash trial.

Okay, get ready for my conversation with David right after the break.

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