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Joan Borysenko: The Important Role We Play in Each Other's Lives

By Joan Borysenko — 2020

HEAL featuring Joan Borysenko.

00:43 min

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C. S. Lewis
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Summer Bird Blue

Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.

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Akemi Dawn Bowman
2020
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Surviving Sibling Loss: The Invisible Thread that Connects Us Through Life and Death

When author Dawn DiRaimondo, PsyD, lost her brother in 2004, she found only one book on sibling loss. So, she wrote the book she wished she had then.

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Dawn Diraimondo
2020
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Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies

When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted.

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T.J. Wray
2003
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Grief After the Death of a Sibling

The impact of the death of a person in some relationships does not always receive the attention it deserves. Siblings are often referred to as the “forgotten grievers.”

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GriefLink
2020
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Loss of a Sibling

While everyone will experience the loss of a loved one at some time in his or her life, and no loss is easy, losing a brother or sister is especially difficult because of the bond formed between siblings. More research and attention is now being placed on the sibling grieving experience.

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Psychology Careers Staff
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The Death of a Sibling: ‘It Makes No Sense and Never Will’

When the poet Joanne Limburg’s brother killed himself, she simply couldn’t accept it. Christina Patterson, whose sister also suddenly died, finds out how she coped

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Christina Patterson
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Siblings & Grief: 10 Things Everyone Should Know

I’m an expert on siblings and grief. Not because I’m a psychologist who specializes in grief. No. I am an expert because I have lost two of my sisters.

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Dr. Christina Hibbert
2013
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Grieving the Death of a Sibling

The other day I asked our Facebook community to suggest resources for people who’ve experienced the death of a sibling. Although some were able to make recommendations, many were quick to point out their struggle to find help and support for their loss.

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Eleanor Haley
2015
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