Love is the antidote for the pain of grief.

When you experience grief, your world can feel overwhelming. It can be difficult to imagine a future. You feel lost and hopeless.

International grief expert and noted author David Kessler has spent decades working with thousands of people experiencing the depths of their grief. He knows the pain deeply, personally. And he also knows the path to begin to find hope, and healing, again.

In this companion workbook to David’s bestselling book Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, you will come to understand your unique and personal experience with grief and begin to work through the loss, releasing the hurt and learning to grieve with more love than pain . . . because love never dies.

And it is in that love where you can find meaning.

Written with warmth, sensitivity, and unique insight, you’ll feel like you are sitting with David, having a conversation along your path to healing.

The Finding Meaning workbook is filled with:

• Self-reflective exercises
• Journaling opportunities
• Warmhearted guidance for releasing pain
• Navigation techniques for complicated grief
• Tools for guilt, rumination, and overwhelming feelings

“In this deeply empathic, accessible, intuitive, and affirming workbook, David Kessler gives us the opportunity to create our own personal roadmap for finding meaning while navigating grief, reminding us that we will all experience loss and that there is no ‘wrong way’ to grieve. The exercises and prompts are universally useful for a person navigating any kind of loss and gently guide us back to the possibilities of healing and meaning-making in the wake of loss and grief.”
—Ramani Durvasula, PhD, clinical psychologist, professor emerita of psychology, and author of the New York Times bestselling book It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

“David Kessler shows us that dealing with emotions attached to grief and loss will help us find comfort, hope, and healing. The Finding Meaning workbook provides gentle, expert guidance through the twists and turns of the grieving process, leading to the last place we expect to arrive: a place where strength, clarity, and purpose can grow.”
—Frank Anderson, MD, author of To Be Loved and Transcending Trauma

“David Kessler offers us a kind, empowering, and life-changing guide to help any of us who are grieving the loss of a loved one. This workbook provides practical steps to move through the stages of grief in our own way, finding strength, clarity, and meaning by being open to the full spectrum of emotions that come with loss. With inspiring stories and practical exercises, these pages are a soothing companion in our moving forward with an expanded embracing of life’s purpose and loving relationships.”
—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Aware, IntraConnected, and Personality and Wholeness in Therapy and executive director of the Mindsight Institute

“David Kessler’s Finding Meaning workbook is the next best thing to a hand placed gently on your shoulder or a kind voice whispering the wisdom and comfort you need to hear. These pages offer reliable guidance from someone who has walked the path of grief and loss, and found healing and purpose in the journey.”
—Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief

“We can’t go back to the place we were before grief and loss, but we can make meaning in how we live life going forward. In the Finding Meaning workbook, David Kessler offers compassionate clarity for how we can not only process the emotions surrounding a loss, but also use the lessons of grief to rebuild our resources for relating to others and ourselves.”
—Imogen Carn & Sally Douglas, founders of the Good Mourning podcast