See What's Inside the Sibling Strong Community
A dedicated online space where grieving siblings can connect, learn, share, remember, and live forward together.
There is no one right way to belong here.
Some members come ready to talk. Others begin by listening, reading, and quietly exploring. You can participate in whatever way feels right for you.
Sibling Strong welcomes adults grieving the death of a brother or sister, whatever the cause of death and however long ago it happened.
Join the conversation
Share, respond, ask questions, or connect with other siblings.
Listen and learn
Watch conversations with grief professionals and trusted voices.
Come as you are
Participate often, occasionally, or quietly.
Connect with siblings who understand
Our ongoing community discussion spaces make room for the many ways sibling loss can affect your life. Start a conversation, respond to someone else, ask a question, share a memory, or simply read along until you feel ready to participate.
Missing Them
Memories, anniversaries, milestones, and everyday moments when their absence feels especially present.
Waves of Grief
The emotions that return, shift, or arrive unexpectedly, even long after the loss.
Life Without Them
Family relationships, shifting roles, identity, parenting, friendships, work, and the future you once imagined.
Living Forward & Honoring
Carrying your sibling with you, creating meaning, and finding ways to remain connected to their life and memory.
Recommendations & Resources
Books, podcasts, music, rituals, creative practices, and other things members have found meaningful.
Sibling Grief Q&A
Questions about the experiences, changes, and challenges that can follow the death of a brother or sister.
Hear from trusted voices in grief and bereavement
Through our Fireside Conversations, members will have access to interviews, stories, and videos featuring grief professionals, researchers, authors, advocates, and other trusted voices exploring topics relevant to life after sibling loss.
Conversations may explore
- Why sibling grief can feel different from other losses
- Changes in family roles and relationships
- Grief, identity, and major life transitions
- Continuing bonds and staying connected to the person who died
- Navigating anniversaries, holidays, weddings, births, and other milestones
- Supporting parents and family members while also tending to your own grief
- Trauma, complicated circumstances, and the many different ways siblings die
- Finding meaning, purpose, or hope without minimizing the loss
Whenever possible, conversations will be available live and as recordings, allowing members to participate in the way that works best for them.
Why Sibling Grief Deserves Its Own Space
An illustration of the kind of conversation members can expect. Speakers and topics are announced once they are confirmed.
Meet the siblings, and the people they carry with them
Sibling Spotlights introduce members to other bereaved siblings and the brothers and sisters they continue to carry with them.
These stories may explore the relationship they shared, what changed after the death, what they wish others understood about sibling grief, and the ways they continue to remember and honor their sibling.
Some siblings may share memorial projects, advocacy work, creative expression, traditions, acts of service, or personal ways of living forward. Others may simply share who their sibling was and what they want the world to remember about them.
Each story is different, because every sibling relationship and every grief experience is different.
“I want people to remember how easily she made others laugh.”
Gather in supportive spaces
Members will also have opportunities to gather through live online conversations facilitated by people who understand grief and the importance of creating a compassionate, respectful space.
These gatherings are an opportunity to share what is happening in your life, listen to others, reflect on a particular topic, or simply be present with people who do not need sibling loss explained to them.
Peer-supportive, not clinical
These gatherings are not therapy, and there is never pressure to speak or share more than feels comfortable.
A community you can return to throughout your grief
You might come into the community to:
Find someone whose experience feels familiar
Ask a question you have not been able to ask anywhere else
Listen to a conversation with a grief professional
Share a photograph or memory of your sibling
Talk about a milestone that feels complicated
Learn how another sibling is honoring the person they lost
Find support before an anniversary or holiday
Connect with members you may eventually meet at a Sibling Strong retreat
Spend time in a place where your sibling, and your grief, still matter
Participate in a way that feels right for you
You do not have to attend every gathering, respond to every conversation, or tell your entire story when you join.
Quietly explore
Read conversations, watch recordings, and learn from others.
Join when it feels right
Respond to a post, attend a gathering, ask a question, or share a memory.
Build relationships
Connect with other siblings, support one another, and help shape future conversations.
These are not levels to progress through, and one way of participating is not better than another. There is no expectation that members participate in any particular way.
Built with siblings, not just for siblings
Sibling Strong will continue to develop new conversations, resources, gatherings, and opportunities based in part on what our members tell us they need.
We do not believe a meaningful community is built only by filling it with content. It grows through relationships, shared experiences, thoughtful conversations, and the wisdom grieving siblings offer one another.
Your membership helps make this dedicated space possible, and gives you a voice in what it becomes.
You do not have to figure out life after sibling loss alone.
Whether your loss was recent or many years ago, whether you are ready to share or simply want to listen, there is a place for you here.
Join the Community