You Lost Your Spouse.
And a Whole Life.
A free gathering for those who have lost a spouse, partner, or the person they chose.
Tuesday, March 24 · 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET
With David Kessler · Free to attend · Replay available
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"I am so glad you are here — and I am so sorry you're here."— David Kessler
This grief is different
The people around you may not understand.
David does.
They were the person you chose. And they chose you. Not assigned by birth or circumstance — chosen, freely, deliberately, with your whole heart.
When they died, everything changed. Your identity. Your daily rhythms. Your sense of who you are now. The rituals that shaped your days. The future you had imagined together.
And so often, the people around you simply don't understand the depth of this particular loss. This event is for you — exactly as you are, wherever you are in your grief.
What we'll explore together
Practical tools and real understanding
for this kind of loss
Why the death of a spouse is unlike any other loss — and why it's so often minimized by others
The secondary losses no one warns you about — roles, rituals, identity, intimacy, finances, family
Why guilt, regret, and complicated feelings are a normal part of this grief
Practical tools you can use right now to begin moving through this loss
What it means to grieve fully — and live fully — after losing the person you chose
How to find your footing again when everything familiar has changed
Your host
David Kessler
David knows grief from the inside. As a child, he witnessed a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital. Decades later, his twenty-one-year-old son David died suddenly — a loss that shattered everything he thought he knew about grief.
That personal experience lives alongside decades of professional work with people in the deepest moments of their lives. He has sat with the dying and the grieving, trained physicians and first responders, and built one of the most trusted grief communities in the world.
He created this event because spousal loss deserves its own space — and its own understanding.
Author of six books including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief · Co-author with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · Founder of Grief.com, visited by over five million people yearly from 167 countries
You don't have to navigate this alone.
Tuesday, March 24 · 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET · Free to attend
A replay will be sent to everyone who registers.
This is a free event. Bring your questions. Bring yourself — exactly as you are.
