David Kessler
speaker
991 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Jun
David Kessler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, here's the thing.
Sometimes we make a mistake in our modern world and use toxic positivity.
Your mom whose spouse died says, it's brutal to sit across from that empty chair.
Sometimes we think, oh, let's throw some spirituality at them.
Oh, mom, dad's always with you.
And here's the thing.
We miss them in that moment.
We miss them.
Grief must be witnessed.
And so our work, the harder work, is to say, what's it like to sit across from that empty chair, mom?
Tell me what that feels like tonight.
Talk to me about it.
And here's the thing.
or anyone supporting anyone in grief, what they say is going to make you uncomfortable and you're going to want to fix them.
I'm a fixer.
Mel, give me three problems, I got solutions.
I get to grief and there's no fixing because no one's broken.
And it's really important, this idea of just sitting with them.
I just got back from Australia and I was talking to a researcher who told me she goes to these small villages and in the village, the night someone dies, everyone in the village has to change something in their house or in their yard.
And the researcher said, why do you do that?
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