David Kessler

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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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Is it a murder?

Is it a child's death?

Is it a divorce where they're alive rejecting you every day on the planet?

Is it sexual abuse that robs you of a life it feels like?

What's the worst grief?

And I always say, yours.

Yours is the worst grief.

Other people's grief don't matter.

Now, here's what goes wrong.

People think grief is like a pie.

I have my pie of grief, and all of a sudden, the 20-year-old whose wedding's postponed is taking a piece of my pie.

No, there's room in this world for all our losses.

Here's a tough thing that I work with therapists on a lot and coaches, people who run bereavement groups.

Let's say in a bereavement group, there's a woman there, her fiancee,

died after three months, and there's someone else who's been married for 40 years.

She says to a woman who had three months, oh my gosh, your grief is nothing.

Three months is nothing.

Try 50 years.

The top line, I would say, is

We don't compare griefs.

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