David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life.
He is the author of five best-selling books, including the newly released You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace after Breakup, Divorce or Death with Louise Hay, as well as Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See before You Die. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons.
His first book, The Needs of the Dying, a #1 best-selling hospice book, received praise by Mother Teresa.
His services have been used by Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marianne Williamson when their loved ones faced life-challenging illnesses. He also worked with late actors Anthony Perkins and Michael Landon. Kessler’s work has been featured on CNN, NBC, Fox, PBS and Dr. Oz. Kessler is a contributing writer for Oprah.com, Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.com, Anderson Cooper 360 and The Huffington Post.
Last year, Kessler became a fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives. He spent the last decade as chief of patient support services for one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles County, Citrus Valley Health Partners, a three-hospital system with a nationally known, free-standing hospice. He is a certified AMA/EPEC (Education for Physicians on End of Life Care) educator. In 1985, he started his own home care/hospice agency, which was one of the largest at the time in Los Angeles. In 1992, he sold it to Kimberly Quality Care. He is also the founder of grief.com which has had over one million visitors from 167 countries.