Excerpt from a Sally Show interview with grief expert David Kessler. In this brief dialogue Kessler addresses unresolved grief years after a loss, emphasizing that grief is not fully "resolved" but integrated — loved ones remain in our hearts and we learn to live with their absence. The tone is consoling and acceptance-oriented.
When it's unresolved three years later, as it is now. What's your opinion of that?
Well, looking at this family, I would be very worried if they didn't feel this way, that we really never resolve grief. We really get used to it. And I can see the love that you have for your family, for your father, and that will always be with you. And you will learn to live with him being missing, as hard as that will be. But your father will always be in your heart, and he will live on through you.
David lives near you in California, and once you look at him, he's going to be there for you.
The worst can happen in our lives, and it can bring out the best of us, and we will get through it.
