 FREE TEACHING
Understanding Traumatic Grief
Why Your Loss Feels Different and What You Can Do About It
A free one-hour teaching with DAVID KESSLER
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This free webinar is for you if you're grieving a sudden, shocking, or life-altering loss—or if your grief has stirred up old wounds and trauma you thought were behind you. It's also for anyone who feels stuck in shock, numbness, or emotional overwhelm after loss, even if that loss happened years ago. And if you're a therapist, caregiver, or someone supporting a grieving person and want to better understand how trauma and grief intertwine, you're welcome here too.
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In this all-new teaching with David Kessler, you’ll learn:
- What makes grief and loss “traumatic”
- Why it can feel so different from other losses - the three layers of traumatic grief
- Â Ways to steady your thoughts and emotions when they start to spiral
- Common reactions after traumatic loss, and why you’re not “doing it wrong”
- How to find small moments of steadiness when everything feels unsteady
When Doubt Takes Over
You'll understand why your grief may feel so different and why the platitudes, advice, and well-meaning suggestions don't suffice.
When it Keeps Replaying
If your mind is looping, reliving the events, or rethinking everything. You're not alone. This is how trauma works.
When Trauma + Grief Overlap
Make sense of why grief feels so overwhelming when trauma is involved and how to address both together.
When Guilt is Heavy
Learn why the "what ifs"Â grip so tightly in traumatic grief and a simple shift that helps you begin to let them go.
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 KĂĽbler-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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