Seize Every Moment With Them (While You Can) | David Kessler
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🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
David Kessler was well into his career as a grief and loss expert when his own life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his 21 year old son. As parents, we can learn from the people like David who have gone through these horrible things. They can teach us the incredibly painful wisdom that came from it and how it can help us be more present, be better parents, and not take for granted each day we have with our kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:12.6 | Sometimes in these episodes, I talk to bestselling authors and elite performers and other guests. |
| 0:17.7 | But lately, I've also been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. |
| 0:23.5 | We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things that |
| 0:29.2 | we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting |
| 0:35.8 | each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better |
| 0:40.6 | at what we do. Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better |
| 0:46.6 | parent. I was better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. I think the stoics can get misinterpreted as masking or |
| 1:01.3 | hiding their emotions, but actually, as we've talked about so many times here, they believed in the |
| 1:05.5 | power of identifying, understanding, and directing your emotional impulses. Obviously, that's easier said than done. And one of the |
| 1:13.3 | ways I think you can get help doing that is by talking to a therapist. It's what I did. I just had an |
| 1:17.0 | appointment with my therapist last week. Therapy can empower you to embrace the best version of yourself, |
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| 1:57.9 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of The Daily Dad podcast. There's, there's some |
| 2:03.7 | things that I read before I had kids, Kormick McCarthy's The Road, John Gunther's Death Be Not |
| 2:11.6 | Proud, even Marcus Aurelius, right? This is a guy you know, objectively, historically, |
| 2:18.9 | you know buried multiple children, |
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