Videos

April 12, 2023

Myesha Stokes - Looking for answers and carrying out her brother’s legacy

Myesha and Maya are probably the ones that have the most in common because both of their younger brothers were murdered, so they were left looking for answers. The call that changed Myesha’s life forever, the one where they told her her little brother, Tony, had passed, was the beginning…

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April 12, 2023

How Support Groups for Surviving Siblings Helped Jen Schwartz (COPE Foundation)

Support groups can be very overwhelming, so even Jen surprised herself when she decided to join a sibling loss support group just a couple of days after losing her brother LB. It's been six years since that time and now she is co-president of the COPE Foundation. Connecting Our Paths…

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April 12, 2023

There's No Ending to this Story

Going into year five of losing my brother to a homicide, thanks to Detective G I already had most of the answers I was looking for, but in the middle of a global pandemic, I felt like I was regressing in my grief journey. I went through a mixture of…

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April 12, 2023

Surviving Sibling Loss with Dr. Dawn DiRaimondo Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist

After losing her brother in 2004, Dr. Dawn DiRaimondo became interested in bereavement work. It wasn’t until later that she found out that there are almost no resources when it comes to sibling loss, so she decided to write a book Surviving Sibling Loss: The Invisible Thread That Connects Us…

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April 12, 2023

Holding on to the “Never” - Birthday Special Episode

As a surviving sibling or anyone that has experienced loss in their life, birthdays, holidays and milestones are always difficult days. Mostly because it is a reminder that our siblings' physical form is no longer with us. What I do is have a glass of champagne by myself every year,…

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April 12, 2023

How Do You Move On?

We all process grief in different ways, we all do different things to feel “at peace” when losing a loved one. As a surviving sibling, I wanted to do everything in my power to bring justice to my brother’s death. I had been there from the very beginning and it…

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April 12, 2023

Losing Hope

During your grief journey your feelings and emotions ebb and flow. I dont believe there’s such thing as “highs” in the grief journey, more like lows and hope. Going into year 2 of losing my brother, I was losing hope because I felt that I had failed him in so…

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April 12, 2023

What Happens Now?

After coping through different mechanisms after the homicide of my brother, I am left thinking “what now?”. What happens now that all the chaos and the spiraling stops? What happens when everything has “calmed down?” In this episode, I’m talking about what happened with my boyfriend at the time during…

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April 12, 2023

There's No Such Thing as Closure

When you’re going through your grief journey, you’re always looking for “closure”, that something that is going to make it ok, that something that’s going to finally let you breathe and “get over” your loss. But as I have learned, there’s no such thing as closure, really the main goal…

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April 12, 2023

Celebrating My Brother's Life

The purpose of a Celebration of Life is to remember a loved one, to tell their story and to come together to celebrate their unique personality. My mother decided to celebrate my brother by scattering his ashes in a creek close to where we grew up. In this week's episode,…

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April 12, 2023

Waiting with the Truth

Abandoned and alone, I had to wait for my family to call me back. When you’re grieving, you really need a support system, someone that’s going to be there for you and help you through the trauma. My family was not that for me. In this week's episode, I am…

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April 12, 2023

Hoping For The Best

Death can be something that can unite or separate families. It’s not natural for parents to lose their children, but what happens to the other siblings that are still on this Earth? Surviving the death of a sibling is not easy, every step of the journey is painful. On top…

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April 12, 2023

The Call That Changed My Life

As a surviving sibling, there are defining moments in your journey. The first defining moment is the call, that call that changes your life forever, the call when we discovered what has happened, the call to provide information that you'd never want to receive. This week I’m sharing the first…

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April 12, 2023

Discovering Information and Family Arrivals

The journey of a surviving sibling is full of ups and downs. Usually, people come to us to ask about how parents are, people forget that we have also suffered a loss, we are usually the forgotten mourners. This week I’m sharing the first pieces of information that the detectives…

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April 12, 2023

The Last Goodbye

Everything is so clear but yet blurry at the same time. When it's time to say our last goodbyes, we often find ourselves in disbelief. Disbelief that this is actually happening, disbelief that this is the last time that we will ever see our sibling again. This week I’m sharing…

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April 12, 2023

Welcome to the Surviving Siblings Podcast

This is for all my forgotten mourners, for all my Surviving Siblings. In this podcast, I am going to tell you my story, the story of my brother, what happened and I will tell you how I went on my mourning and healing journey.

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March 29, 2023

Janice Jernigan - Growing Up with Grief

Visit our website to listen or find us on any major podcast platform: https://www.thesurvivingsiblings.com/janice-jernigan2/ Janice Jernigan lost her sister Julie when she was 3 years old, and this major loss ignited a cascade of secondary losses. Janice lost the opportunity of sharing milestones with her sister, receiving advice from her…

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March 25, 2023

Maggie Bauer - Losing a Sibling by Su*c*de

For full episode show notes and transcript, click here. CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this episode contains depictions and stories of siblings lost by suicide, homicide and/or domestic violence. We understand that some people may find these triggering, activating and/or disturbing. Maggie Bauer lost her brother Chris by suicide, it…

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March 20, 2023

Season 3, Episode 1

Welcome to Season 3 of the Surviving Siblings Podcast. We are starting this season with a returning guest and season sponsor, Audree Kropen from SibsForever. Audree’s story is an interesting one, make sure you go back to Episode 4 and Episode 5 from Season 2. In this episode, Audree returns…

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Feb. 14, 2023

Grief is a Journey - Welcome to Our Channel

Welcome to @thesurvivingsiblingspodcast right here on YouTube! Our podcast is created by a surviving sibling, for surviving siblings. Here you will catch videos from me about important topics around sibling loss and clips from our podcast. To learn more about the podcast, visit our website here: https://www.thesurvivingsiblings.com/ Join our Facebook…

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Jan. 17, 2023

Introduction to The Surviving Siblings Podcast

Welcome to @thesurvivingsiblingspodcast right here on YouTube! Our podcast is created by a surviving sibling, for surviving siblings. Here you will catch videos from me about important topics around sibling loss and clips from our podcast. To learn more about the podcast, visit our website here: https://www.thesurvivingsiblings.com/ Join our Facebook…

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