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A Powerful Conversation
On Pain, Purpose, and
Using Your Voice for Impact
A conversation with David Kessler and Emma Heming Willis
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Join David Kessler and Mary Fisher for a profound conversation about loss, courage, and using your voice for healing and impact.
In this intimate conversation, David and Mary will explore the emotional terrain of pain, the quiet power of purpose, and how speaking our truths, even in uneasy times, can become a path to connection and transformation.
Together they’ll discuss:
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The Power of Purpose
Tips on how grief can awaken to more profound meaning, and how to begin to shape a life of purpose, even when your heart is still tender.
Voice and Vulnerability
Find the courage to tell our truths and discover how doing so can help us navigate silence, stigma, and sorrow.
Breaking the Silence
Use your voice for good. Drawing from An Uneasy Silence, Mary shares what it means to speak the unspeakable — and the healing that begins when we do.
Creativity as Witness and Companion
Harness your creativity and use writing, art, and storytelling as sacred tools to process loss, carry memories, and illuminate hope.
Pain and Grace
How to live with heartbreak and remain open to beauty, love, and the possibility of impact.
Free Online Discussion
Emma Heming Willis & David Kessler
Emma Heming Willis
Emma Heming Willis is an advocate, entrepreneur, wife, and mother dedicated to supporting caregivers and raising awareness for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and brain health. When her husband, Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with FTD, Emma was thrust into the world of caregiving with little guidance. Through her journey, she has become a powerful voice for care partners, sharing her experiences to help others feel less alone and empowered to care for themselves while caring for a loved one.
She is also the founder of Make Time Wellness, a brand committed to getting the world to take women’s brain health seriously.
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Get your copy of Emma's new book, The Unexpected Journey, here.
David Kessler
David Kessler is a grief specialist, speaker, and author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.
David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey. For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. However, despite his vast knowledge of grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son.
He now facilitates a new model of online grief groups that are attended by people worldwide and he leads one of the most respected online grief certificate programs. He is the founder of Grief.com which has over five million visits yearly from 167 countries.
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