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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And I thought about

20, 30, 40 years in the future, the teenagers would be riding their bike and they'd go, hey, what's that house there with the spider webs?

Is it a haunted house?

And they would go, oh, that broken down, dilapidated house?

It's a grief expert whose son died and he never came out again.

Mel, I could find that in me.

I could find, I could lock the door and never come out again.

And I'll tell you, I'm not the only one that feels that way.

And I had to really understand it is a decision.

And meaning helped me get to that decision.

Oh, that's one of the first things I learned when I was researching this book, is that the meaning is not in the horrible event.

There's no meaning in a child's death, a spouse death, a parent death, a tragedy.

There's no meaning in all these losses.

Meaning is after we excavate the pain, and I want to underline that.

After we excavate the pain, the meaning is revealed underneath.

And it's in us.

It's who we become.

This is really about finding your way through that darkness.

And there's one thing I'd love to just tell you here that I think is so important in this.

One of the things I say about meaning is your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing.

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