In this groundbreaking and “poignant” (Los Angeles Times) book, David Kessler—praised for his work by Maria Shriver, Marianne Williamson, and Mother Teresa—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.

In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion. Now, based on hard-earned personal experiences, as well as knowledge and wisdom gained through decades of work with the grieving, Kessler introduces a critical sixth stage: meaning.

Kessler’s insight is both professional and intensely personal. His journey with grief began when, as a child, he witnessed a mass shooting at the same time his mother was dying. For most of his life, Kessler taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about end of life, trauma, and grief, as well as leading talks and retreats for those experiencing grief. Despite his knowledge, his life was upended by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. How does the grief expert handle such a tragic loss? He knew he had to find a way through this unexpected, devastating loss, a way that would honor his son. That, ultimately, was the sixth stage of grief—meaning.

In Finding Meaning, Kessler shares the insights, collective wisdom, and powerful tools that will help those experiencing loss.

Just as On Death and Dying taught us the five stages of death - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - Dr Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross and David Kessler's landmark On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation and healing.

This new edition celebrates the life and work of Dr Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross a decade after her death and features a new foreword by Maria Shriver, who reflects on the legacy of On Grief and Grieving and the important role the book has played in her life.

On Grief and Grieving is a rich trove for anyone experiencing grief - a beacon shedding light, comfort and hope.

For anyone who has suffered loss, a collection of meditations and poses for working through grief. So often, we think that grief lives only in our hearts and minds. But what about the emotions that weigh us down and the grief that gets stuck in our body? Our emotions need motion, and Healing Through Yoga is a unique, simple, and powerful way of healing. Grief Yoga founder Paul Denniston takes you through the stages of Awareness, Expression, Connection, Surrender, and Evolution with clear and compassionate instruction, poses, exercises with easy-to-follow photos, and meditations specifically designed to move you through that particular step. Learn how to release pain and suffering without expectation or judgment and reconnect to life, love, and strength. Even if you have never done yoga before, with Healing Through Yoga you can process your grief and use it as fuel for transformative healing. FOR READERS OF: Healing After Loss, On Grief and Grieving, Chair Yoga, The Body Keeps the Score, and Grief Day by Day. EXPERT AUTHOR: Paul Denniston is the founder of Grief Yoga, a program he created with David Kessler (co-author of On Grief and Grieving) and tours worldwide, working with bereavement groups, cancer support centers, addiction and Alzheimer's groups, and people dealing with breakups, divorce, and betrayal. Denniston has a mailing list of 100,000 subscribers, and he teaches a weekly class to the 18,000 members in his public Grief Facebook group. NOT JUST FOR YOGIS: Paul's audience is mostly made up of people who had never thought of yoga as a way to work through grief. This practice is not as much about physical flexibility as it is about emotional liberation. GREAT RESOURCE FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS: Paul has taught this practice to over 10,000 therapists, counselors, and healthcare professionals around the world. A NEW TOOL FOR ALL TYPES OF LOSS: Paul teaches this class to workshops dealing with all kinds of loss, including breakups, divorce and betrayal, bereavement groups, cancer support centers, addiction groups, death by suicide, Alzheimer's support groups, bereaved parents and many more. This book can help with new and old losses and traumatic experiences that often go unattended. Perfect for: 18+, Yoga enthusiasts. grief help, self-help

Ten years after Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's death: "An inspiring...guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death" ("Kirkus Reviews")--the beloved classic now with a new introduction and updated resources section.
Is this really how I want to live my life? Each one of us at some point asks this question. The tragedy is not that life is short, but that we often see only in hindsight what really matters.
In her first book on life and living, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross joined with David Kessler to guide us through the practical and spiritual lessons we need to learn so that we can live life to its fullest in every moment. Many years of working with the dying have shown the authors that certain lessons come up over and over again. Some of these lessons are enormously difficult to master, but even the attempts to understand them can be deeply rewarding. Here, in fourteen accessible chapters, from the Lesson of Love to the Lesson of Happiness, the authors reveal the truth about our fears, our hopes, our relationships, and, above all, about the grandness of who we really are.

In gentle, compassionate language, "The Needs of the Dying" helps us through the last chapter of our lives. Author David Kessler has identified key areas of concern: the need to be treated as a living human being, the need for hope, the need to express emotions, the need to participate in care, the need for honesty, the need for spirituality, and the need to be free of physical pain. Examining the physical and emotional experiences of life-challenging illnesses, Kessler provides a vocabulary for family members and for the dying that allows them to communicate with doctors, with hospital staff, and with one another, and--at a time when the right words are exceedingly difficult to find--he helps readers find a way to say good-bye. Using comforting and touching stories, he provides information to help us meet the needs of a loved one at this important time in our lives.

In "You Can Heal Your Heart," self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief. This remarkable book discusses the emotions that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies. It will also foster awareness and compassion, providing you with the courage to face many other types of losses and challenges, such as saying good-bye to a beloved pet, losing your job, coming to terms with a life-threatening illness or disease, and much more.
With a perfect blend of Louise's teachings and affirmations on personal growth and transformation and David's many years of working with those in grief, this empowering book will inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking, bringing hope and fresh insights into your life and even your current and future relationships. You will not only learn how to help heal your grief, but you will also discover that, yes, you "can" heal your heart.

When TV talkshow host Elias Claymore is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl he turns to his friend Alex Sadaka to defend him. But Alex has a fight on his hands, for Claymore - a former Black Power activist - is anything but squeaky clean and this time even the DNA evidence is stacked against him. Forced to share the defence with a lawyer from Claymore's insurance firm, Alex must battle his way through jury tampering, conflicts of interest and vicious hate mail to uncover the truth. With Claymore a vulnerable target in prison and the prosecution scenting blood, Alex knows that time is running out. Could it be that this time there is No Way Out?

In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief. This remarkable book discusses the emotions that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies. You Can Heal Your Heart will also foster awareness and compassion, providing you with the courage to face many other types of losses and challenges, such as saying goodbye to a beloved pet, losing your job, coming to terms with a life-threatening illness or disease and much more. With a perfect blend of Louise Hay's teachings and affirmations on personal growth and transformation and David Kessler's many years of working with those in grief, this empowering book will inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking, bringing hope and fresh insights into your life and even your current and future relationships. You will not only learn how to help heal your grief, but you will also discover that, yes, you can heal your heart.

David Kessler – the world's foremost expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving – journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.

David has spent decades teaching about end of life, trauma and grief. And yet his life was upended by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. How does the grief expert handle such a devastating loss?

In Finding Meaning, Kessler shares his hard-earned wisdom and offers a roadmap to remembering those who have died with more love than pain, how to move forward in a way that honours our loved ones and ultimately transform grief into a more peaceful and hopeful experience.

An inspiring must-read for anyone struggling to figure out how to live after loss.

This is my second book of digital illustrations. My artwork is an extension of my imagination and no two are alike. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy creating them.

My name is David Kessler and I have been doing Digital Imaging for about 15 years. I currently reside in Ithaca, NY. Most of my art work is heavily influenced by texture and color. I like doing artwork involving old and demolished buildings and other architecture. I use Adobe Photoshop and I try to keep raising my artwork to higher levels. I hope everyone will see and enjoy my work as much as I enjoy creating it.

This is my third book of digital illustrations. It contains most of favorites that I have not included in my first two books. As always, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

On a night out in London, teenager Tony Neuman is stabbed in what appears to be a mugging. On a luxurious country estate, a lawyer is asked to use his criminal contacts to make some discreet inquiries into the disappearance of billionaire Fabian Digby. But when Digby's body turns up floating on the Grand union canal and police frogmen find Tony's watch in the canal, Tony's brother Phil comes under suspicion and the lawyer teams up with with a maverick police woman to find the link between the two deaths. The link is Gold a perfume made by the company that Digby acquired just before his death. But Gold is no ordinary perfume... it seems to have addictive properties... "The pace is fast, characters convince and the plot is well thought out. Kessler writes well." SUNDAY EXPRESS "Kessler merges tense courtroom scenes with an intriguing storyline to produce a very satisfying read." YORKSHIRE EVENING PRESS "Courtroom battles share the limelight with high-energy action as the story builds to a stunning climax." NORTH EASTERN GAZETTE

Young policeman Neil Douglas rushes to the aid of a woman who has been stabbed on London's Hampstead Heath. Seeing a man standing over the body, he lashes out with his baton, striking the man in the head. There is just one problem: the man didn't attack the woman; he was coming to her aid. Neil has just put an innocent man in a life-threatening coma. "And the killer is still on the loose." Supended from duty and tormented by guilt, he is determined to trackdown the escaped killer. All the while he is taunted over the airwaves by a pretty but bitchy American phone-in show presenter. But who was the dead woman? Who is trying to hide every trace of her past? And does her case have anything to do with another murder case five years ago in which the "innocent man" whom Neil struck was the prime suspect? Neil is determined to find the answers to these questions - even if it costs him his life.

WHEN IT'S A MUSLIM, IT'S A TERRORIST. WHEN IT'S AN IRISH NATIONALIST, IT'S A FREEDOM FIGHTER That at least was the attitude of the American judge who refused to extradite Sean Murphy to stand trial for planting a bomb in a London shopping mall that killed an Indian doctor and a three-year-old kid. Now Murphy is dead and 23-year-old American medical student Justine Levy is on trial in New York for his murder - conducting her own defense and resisting all offers of help from her young, black standby-counsel. But the evidence is circumstantial and the beautiful but vulnerable Justine remains tight-lipped. Was she a vigilante or was it personal? Did she know the child or the Indian doctor? Is she guilty? For her lawyer it IS personal because he is falling for her. But who will ultimately decide her fate? The jury? The ruthless gunman who has come to New York to kill her? Or another man who has come in pursuit of the gunman with a ruthlessness equal to that of Justine? David Kessler's first thriller doesn't just excite and mystify, it also asks some tough questions about vigilante justice and the rights of the victim.

On the eve of the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur, middle-aged emotionally-repressed English aviation engineer Conrad Finch, blags his way onto an Israeli Air Force base and steals an advanced stealth fighter jet that he designed. But why? Could it have something to do with the beautiful young widow - twenty years his junior - who recently dumped him? Or her four-year-old son, who loves him like a father? Whatever the reason, with the Israeli Air Force, RAF and USAF on his tail - trying thir damndest to shoot him down - it really could be over in a flash Over in a Flash is the first screenplay in the "Who can play the lead?" series in which members of the public are invited to make suggestions on who can play the lead via the website: whocanplaythelead.com

When 19 year old Bethel Newton accuses Elias Claymore of raping her, America is deeply divided. In his youth, Claymore was a Black power militant and convicted rapist who fled to north Africa. But after undergoing a road-to-Damascus change, he came back to America to serve out his sentence, reinventing himself as a neoconservative and TV talk show host. Now, accused once again, Claymore turns to his friend Alex Sedaka. But Alex is pressured by Claymore's insurers into sharing the defense with Andromeda ("Andi") Phoenix, whose black lover Gene works at a rape crisis center - straining Andi's loyalties to the limit. Meanwhile Alex must battle his way through DNA evidence, jury tampering and malicious computer hacking, while his girlfriend - TV reporter Martine Yin - is covering the case and putting herself in danger... Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow and Harlan Coben.

Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone,inside the industry or out,who posed a problem. They had a whole lot of money to spend. And they were good at getting people to do what they wanted them to do. After all, they had already convinced millions of Americans to take up an addictive, unhealthy, and potentially deadly habit. David Kessler didn't care about all that. In this book he tells for the first time the thrilling detective story of how the underdog FDA,while safeguarding the nation's food, drugs, and blood supply,finally decided to take on one of the world's most powerful opponents, and how it won. Like A Civil Action or And the Band Played On, A Question of Intent weaves together science, law, and fascinating characters to tell an important and often unexpectedly moving story. We follow Kessler's team of investigators as they race to find the clues that will allow the FDA to assert jurisdiction over cigarettes, while the tobacco companies and their lawyers fight back,hard. Full of insider information and drama, told with wit, and animated by its author's moral passion, A Question of Intent reads like a Grisham thriller, with one exception,everything in it is true.