The Broken Pack™: Stories of Adult Sibling Loss

About The Broken Pack™: Stories of Adult Sibling Loss

On this podcast, surviving sibling, psychologist, and thanatologist, Dr. Angela Dean, helps other grieving siblings share their sibling loss stories. This podcast aims to provide an authentic space for surviving siblings to express their grief and help others navigate the complex emotions associated with this profound, often misunderstood loss. The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss delves into the profound and often overlooked topic of sibling loss, offering a platform for surviving siblings to share their personal grief stories. In each episode, listeners are immersed in the real-life experiences of those who have endured the unimaginable loss of a sibling. Through inspiring narratives, honest accounts, and stories of resilience, surviving siblings recount their journeys and share how they are learning to live with such profound grief. By connecting through shared experiences, listeners will find solace and support, discovering a community that understands the unique challenges of sibling loss. The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss is a podcast focused on giving bereaved survivors of sibling loss a platform to share their stories and be heard, something many sibling loss survivors state they never or rarely have had. This podcast is sponsored by the organization, The Broken Pack, an organization supporting and educating others on sibling loss and grief as well as connecting survivors in community. If you would like more information or to share your own sibling loss story, please contact Dr. Angela Dean at dr.dean@thebrokenpack.com or go to our website, thebrokenpack.com (http://thebrokenpack.com/). Please like, subscribe, and share! Please follow us on social media: Facebook: @BrokenPack (https://www.facebook.com/BrokenPack) Instagram: @thebrokenpack (https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenpack/) TikTok: @the_broken_pack (https://www.tiktok.com/link/v2?aid=1988&lang=en&scene=bio_url&target=https%3A%2F%2Fthebrokenpack.com%2F) YouTube: @thebrokenpack (https://youtube.com/@thebrokenpack) Sign-up for Wild Grief, our newsletter: https://substack.thebrokenpack.com/ (https://substack.thebrokenpack.com/) Thank you! Angela M. Dean, PsyD, FT, GTMR Credits: The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss is produced by 27 Elephants Media "If Tomorrow Starts Without Me" © ℗ 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Written by Joe Mylward and Brian Dean Performed by Joe Mylward Licensed for use by The Broken Pack

Publisher

Dr. Angela Dean / The Broken Pack, LLC

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jan 2023

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

92 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026

   The Love Did Not Get Deleted: Sibling Loss and Mindfulness

   In this episode of The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss, Dr. Dean talks with Gyani Richards, a Bay Area grief counselor and surviving sibling. Gyani is the fourth of five brothers. His younger brother Pete, the one the whole family gathered around, died of cancer in 2021, less than 18 months after his diagnosis. Gyani and Dr. Dean talk about the conversation Gyani wanted to have with his brother and didn't get, and how losing his father at 13 shaped the way he met this loss decades later....

2. 

   23 Aug 2026

   Surviving Sibling Loss Twice, Addiction, and Meaning Making: SisterPlay

   Content warning: This episode discusses addiction, suicidal ideation, incarceration, and the death of a sibling in jail after being denied medical care. In this episode of The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss, Dr. Dean talks with Dr. Elizabeth Ostler, a Brooklyn-based theater maker, academic, and surviving sibling who has lost two of her three siblings. Elizabeth's sister Lisa died in 2016 at age 37, three days after being arrested and held as a pretrial detainee in a Salt Lake City jail...

3. 

   27 Jun 2026

   Bright Days Do Come: Seeking Signs after Sibling Loss

   In this episode of The Broken Pack: Stories of Sibling Loss, Dr. Angela Dean talks with surviving sibling Karin McLean, author of Bright Days Do Come. Karin is Brian's big sister. Brian, the baby of the family, died at 9-years-old in a 1991 car accident that nearly took Karin's life too. Karin had helped raise him since she was twelve, and she wrote her book more than thirty years later. Together they talk about the secondary and non-death losses that follow a sudden accident, the long work o...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

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