You Don't Have to Carry This Alone
A community for adults living life after sibling loss. Connection, understanding, and belonging — with other surviving siblings who just get it.
Welcome to Sibling Strong
We’re building a compassionate community and meaningful resources for adults who have lost a brother or sister.
Siblings are often the longest relationships of our lives — the ones who knew us growing up, saw us become who we are today, and shared memories that no one else carries in quite the same way. They were there for our childhood, our teenage years, and so many of the moments that shaped who we are.
When a sibling — or sibling-like relationship — is lost, the grief can feel uniquely heavy, confusing, and deeply personal. It’s a loss that doesn’t always fit neatly into the way grief is expected to look or sound.
Here, you can connect with others who truly understand. This is a space where your experience makes sense — where there’s relief in knowing you’re not “doing grief wrong,” and where you don’t have to explain the ways you carry your loss.
What Sibling Strong Offers
Sibling grief can be isolating, and what you need from a community changes over time. These are the ways members connect, learn, and feel less alone.
Community Conversations
Connect with other grieving siblings through ongoing discussions about the many ways sibling loss affects our lives.
Live Peer Gatherings
Join supportive online gatherings where members can share, listen, reflect, or simply be present with people who understand.
Fireside Conversations
Hear from grief professionals, researchers, authors, advocates, and other trusted voices exploring topics relevant to sibling grief.
Sibling Spotlights
Discover the stories of other grieving siblings, the brothers and sisters they carry with them, and the ways they continue to remember and honor them.
Retreats
Learn about future in-person experiences created to foster connection, remembrance, restoration, and meaningful adventure.
The Power of Sibling Connection
Being understood, truly understood, can change how we carry our loss. Peer connection is not a cure, but a steadying presence.
Having a connection to siblings outside of my family helped save my life... literally. Having another sibling to talk to that wasn't my own sister helped me be able to talk about my brother without fear of having my grief compared to hers. It also helped to have another person to talk to that wouldn't compare their grief to mine, no matter how our siblings died.
Bethaney B.
Being a combat veteran, I found solace in mingling, talking, and hanging out with my fellow combat & veteran brothers and sisters. The gap I had was not really feeling like I could connect or talk to anyone about losing a sibling. Sibling retreats greatly help me fill that gap and make new brothers and sisters that will last a lifetime.
Brian E.
Sibling support saved my life.
Quin F.
When my brother died, I suddenly became an only child. Connecting with other surviving siblings has allowed me to have a "sibling"-feeling again. These are the people I can call at 2 AM to cry or to share stupid stories of things my brother and I did as kids (while we all laugh hysterically). Being around my sibs allows me to feel whatever I feel and know that I'll be understood, accepted, and loved. It's the next best thing to having my brother back.
Rachel E.
Meet the Founders
Sibling Strong was created by Kim Burditt Bartlett and Ben Harris, two grieving siblings whose own losses led to years of peer-support work, community building, and advocacy for bereaved families.
Together, they bring more than two decades of combined experience supporting people after loss, and a shared belief that siblings deserve spaces created specifically for them.
Ready to Walk Alongside Others Who Understand?
Join a community where sibling grief has space, language, and belonging. All membership options include the same full access, so you can choose whichever billing suits you.
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