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Our annual summit will take place on May 2nd & 3rd this year. It is a virtual conference gears towards helping bereaved siblings along their grief journey whether they lost their sibling today or many years ago. Recordings are available post-event for ticket holders. Reach out to maya@thesurvivingsiblings.com for additional questions.

This is a guide and journal created by a surviving sibling for surviving siblings. In this guide, you will learn more about what being a surviving sibling means and understand why surviving siblings are called the "forgotten mourners." This guide was created to help you along your grief journey as a bereaved sibling. It has information about being a bereaved sibling with plenty of writing prompts to help you along the way.

Regardless of where you are in your grief journey, this is a guide for you if you have lost a sibling as it helps you learn that while you may never "move on" from this loss, you can move forward. You will learn what the difference is between the two, and trust me, there is a massive difference.

Within The Grief Guide for Surviving Siblings, you will also have the following exercises:

Validating your Loss and Feelings
The Seven Stages of Grief
Grief Timeline Exercise
Getting Unstuck
Moving Forward Together

This is not only a guide but a journal for you as a bereaved sibling, a forgotten forgotten or surviving sibling as we call it on our podcast. Please use these prompts and empty pages however you like to help you along your grief journey.

Dr Parul Dua Makkar is a general Dentist who lost her brother and only sibling Dr Manu Dua to Oral Cancer.  Manu was also a dentist and 34. Parul now helps bring awareness to Oral Cancer and lectures about it. She also helps healthcare professionals navigate grief with her grief coaching. Posthumously Parul published the book Life Interrupted Dr Dua’s Survival Guide by Dr Manu Dua.  These are series of blogs that Manu wrote in his last days, Parul helped complete and publish it. 

Fifty years after the death of her brother in an airplane crash, Michelle Tobin’s first novel, Home for the Bewildered debuted in 2024. Home for the Bewildered available from Vine Leaves Press, is the story of psychologist, Dorothy Morrissey and four of her patients in the St. Lawrence Asylum in Lansing, Michigan 1974. Michelle deliberately chose 1974 because that was the year her brother died. Nods to him and her large family of origin are peppered throughout the book. Michelle, herself a practicing therapist, contends that her chosen path was shaped by her brother’s death and the subsequent struggles she faced. You can read more about Michelle on her website at www.michelle-tobin.com where there is also a link to Vine Leaves Press.