Heal Your Heart After Grief: Help Your Clients Find Peace After Break-Ups, Divorce, Death and Other Losses – David Kessler

Featuring David Kessler, special guest on “Dr. Oz”, “Oprah & Friends”, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, People Magazine, “Entertainment Tonight”, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times
Heal Your Heart After Grief: Help Your Clients Find Peace After Break-Ups, Divorce, Death and Other Losses – David Kessler
Based on David Kessler’s newest book, You Can Heal Your Heart, co-authored with the legendary Louise Hay, this recording is a blend of Louise’s life-changing thought processes as well as David’s years of working with those in grief. Their message will inform you and inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking and treating your clients.
David Kessler, best-selling author, collaborator with the groundbreaking Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, will provide you with the newest information on healing all kinds of grief. Teach your clients how to tackle the grief that occurs when a relationship leaves them brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, a job is lost, dealing with cancer, a death occurs, or other challenging life circumstances.
Enhance your work as a clinician with clients who have dealt with loss. David’ message will fill you with insight, tools, strategies, and inspiring information.

Learn healthy and supportive ways to heal all kinds of grief
Understand old patterns to have healthy new relations despite breakups and divorce
Help loved ones learn to live with loss after death instead of “getting over loss”

“It was wonderful working with David again. David brings wisdom and compassion to tough subjects such as breakups, divorce and the death of a loved one. If you get the chance to hear him speak on our newest work,You Can Heal Your Heart, you will find helpful information, comfort and healing in his words.” –Louise L. Hay, the New York Times best-selling author of You Can Heal Your Life

Utilize grief coping strategies to improve client level of functioning.
Discuss clinical strategies to reduce feelings of betrayal in clients.
Outline the stages of grief to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
Recognize the clinical implications of grief on children and adolescents.
Communicate disaster and crime coping techniques to improve client level of functioning.
Analyze effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration as it relates to treatment outcomes.

Inner World of Grief

The role of dreams and their archetypes
Navigate the loss and replacement of roles in loss
Use of Life Beliefs in healing grief
Dealing with secrets that may be revealed after loss

Divorce

Reinterpreting and reframing divorce
Healing shame around divorce
Children and divorce

Break-Ups

Help your client understand the ways they were taught to love
Interpret reoccurring patterns
What lessons can bring about healing
The lies we tell ourselves after a relationship ends

Betrayal

How much information is good to share?
Taking responsibility for actions
How to move on afterward
The cost to the soul of betrayal

After Cancer

Heal mentally after medical recovery
Deal with fears of reoccurrence
Ways to find peace again with one’s own body

Other Losses

Honoring and heal from a pets death
The assumptions we make about our children and releasing them
Understand the benefits and burdens about the idealize mate
Job loss and home loss

Anticipatory Grief

Treatment strategies
Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client

Deathbed Visions and Their Impact on Grief

Effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration
Clinical/palliative care studies, research of near death awareness
Using the law to normalize the dying experience

Kübler Ross Stages Revisited and Updated for 2014

The possibility of a sixth stage?
Interpreting the relevancy of the stages today

Children in Grief

Tools for preparing for the loss
Intervention for coping enhancement for funerals
The forgotten grievers

Complicated Grief

Simplifying the model
Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide, Alzheimers

Disasters and How We Cope

Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorists acts
Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
Helping survivors coping with suffering

Tools for the Clinician to Help Clients Cope with:

Anniversaries
Holidays – the seen and unseen
Birthdays