Grieving Fully, Living Fully

For Bereaved Spouses

For anyone navigating life after the death of a spouse, partner, or fiancé

A 4-Week Online Course with David Kessler

Tuesday, April 7, 14, 21, and 28
4 PM PT / 7 PM ET

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There's a Reason You're Here.

When your spouse dies, everything changes. You've lost your partner, your best friend, your beloved — along with all of your shared plans and hopes for the future. Nothing is as you expected it to be or wanted.

And now you are navigating a world they are no longer in. Not just your heart — your whole world has changed. Your identity. Your finances. Your relationships. Your daily rhythms. Your sense of who you even are now.

The people around you mean well. But so few of them truly understand the weight of this loss. The loneliness of it. The way it reaches into every corner of your life. The way you can feel like half a pair of scissors.

They tell us to get over it or to move on. But this grief is unlike any other. And it deserves dedicated time and space.

That's why David Kessler is leading this healing series — to help you attend to your heartbreak, navigate the rocky terrain of this devastating loss, and begin to remember with more love than pain. We'll cover the so-often-overlooked topics — regrets, guilt, secrets, and the what-ifs and if-onlys that keep us up at night.

You don't have to be ready. You just have to show up.

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I wouldn't want to do this trip without love. And if you have love, you're going to have grief.

- David Kessler

Grief Must Be Witnessed.

This is a dedicated time and space to tend to your grief — to attend to your heartbreak, navigate the rocky terrain of this devastating loss, and begin to remember with more love than pain. Over four weeks, David Kessler will lead you on a compassionate journey of healing — through the unique grief after the death of a spouse, partner, or fiancé, and toward a life that honors your love and makes room for your future.

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Four Weeks Toward Healing, Identity, and Peace

Week 1 — The Grief Only You Understand

Why the death of the person you chose is unlike any other loss
What to do when the people around you just don't understand
Pain versus suffering — and the road between them
Making peace with the things that were never said or done
Grieving fully and living fully — you need both, and you deserve both

Week 2 — When Life Changes Without Your Permission

The secondary losses — the hundred roles they played that you're only now discovering
The mountain of logistics that grief drops on you with no energy to climb it
Secrets, surprises and the complicated things we discover after someone dies
The loneliness of a home, a table, a life — and a future — that used to be shared
Understanding guilt — why it's so persistent and how to begin to release it

Week 3 — Your Secret Path to Healing

Why healing can feel so far away — even when you're doing everything right
The pattern that keeps you spinning in the pain without knowing it
Why the path forward doesn't look the way you thought it would
How to begin moving from pain toward something softer
When grief becomes something you hold — rather than something that holds you

Week 4 — Finding You Again

The disorienting experience of not knowing who you are without them
The you that existed before — and the you that is still becoming
Releasing the guilt, the regrets, and the judgment you've been carrying for too long
Imagining a future that holds your love and makes room for your life
You are more than your grief — and this is where you begin to live that

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Healing doesn't mean forgetting. It doesn't mean moving on. It means that you can eventually remember with more love than pain.

- David Kessler

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How We'll Journey Together ...

Live Meetings

Connect with David each week via Zoom for 90 minutes. He'll share helpful tips and strategies for navigating this unique grief, and there will be an opportunity to join in the Q&A where David will answer your questions directly. You can join with your camera on or off.

Weekly Homework

Each week includes a simple but powerful homework assignment — just for you. Not to turn in. Just to help you spend dedicated time with your grief and give it the attention it deserves.

Access to Replays

Can't make it live? No problem. Every session is recorded and available to you on your private course platform for as long as you need it.

Meet David Kessler

David Kessler knows traumatic grief firsthand. 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.

David is one of the world's foremost experts on grief and loss. He's the author of six bestselling books, including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, and co-authored On Grief and Grieving with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. For most of his life, he has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about trauma and grief.

His work is informed by both professional expertise and personal survival—and his deep belief that there is hope, even after life's most devastating losses.

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Fear doesn't stop death. Fear stops life.

- David Kessler

This course is for you if your spouse, partner, fiancé, or significant other has died — recently or years ago. Wherever you are in your grief, you are welcome here.

This is your time. Your grief. Your path forward.