Check out this first episode with your host and sibling loss survivor, Dr. Angela Dean. She talks with Dr. Jen Kilgore who shares her story of grief and loss, where she is on her healing journey, and a little about her late brother, Jimmy, and their relationship.

Dr. Jen has a naturopathic medical clinic in Nashua, New Hampshire and helps people with unexplainable unresponsive complex conditions by integrating education and empowerment practices with cutting edge modern technologies. Her work today was largely inspired because of the clarity and confidence that came from her personal experience of sibling loss and losing her brother to cancer and cancer treatment.If you would like more information or to share your own adult sibling loss story, please contact me, Dr. Angela Dean, at contact@thebrokenpack.com or go to our website, https://thebrokenpack.com.

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CHAPTERS
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00:00 Background
01:17 Introduction
02:07 Jimmy
07:22 Your Loss
35:27 What would you have wanted to be different?
44:07 Do you feel supported now?
57:02 Favorite Memory
58:31 Outro

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Dr. Dean talks with Pastor Kent (PK) Chevalier about losing his brother, JH, to COVID-19, mourning rather publicly due to his many roles, his struggles, complicated family dynamics, death rituals, healing and so much more. Kent is on staff with Athletes in Action serving as the Chaplain of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

To learn more about Kent and his work including his podcast, please go to his website: https://www.teamchevalier.com/home

If you would like more information or to share your own adult sibling loss story, please contact me, Dr. Angela Dean, at contact@thebrokenpack.com or go to our website, thebrokenpack.com.

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Dr. Angela Dean, our usual host, is joined by guest host, Ankur Shah Delight. Ankur helps Dr. Dean tell her story of sibling loss, about her brother Tony, and how it prompted the formation of The Broken Pack.

While this is the last episode of this season, you can stay connected between seasons with a subscription to Wild Grief, our newsletter at https://thebrokenpack.com/wild-grief/ and to learn about upcoming opportunities to share your story, new announcements, and be the first to know when season two is coming out.

Support the show
If you would like more information or to share your own adult sibling loss story, please contact me, Dr. Angela Dean, at contact@thebrokenpack.com or go to our website, thebrokenpack.com.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:13 About The Broken Pack
5:00 When The Idea for The Broken Pack Emerged
6:15 Why is it called The Broken Pack?
8:11 Angela's Relationship with Grief
11:46 Tony's Discomfort with Grief & Some Irony
12:39 Influence of Grief & Chronic Illness on Vocation and Comfort in Grief
13:58 Who Tony Was and What the Relationship was like
18:21 Tony's Influence on Who Angela Is
21:31 More on Angela & Tony's Relationship
22:20 What Happened? The Story of Tony's Death
32:51 Going Back to Work...Too Soon
34:20 What did Angela Really Need?
39:06 Why Sharing Stories is Helpful and What is Needed
42:35 Some Thoughts, Advice, Wisdom
45:40 Not Wanting Siblings to be Forgotten
46:51 Applying Tony's (And Angela's) Humor to Helping Others Cope With Sibling Loss
47:14 Stickers
48:22 Cards
50:00 Reaction to Platitudes
52:13 Keeping Tony Alive
56:17 More Memories of Tony
57:52 Favorite Memory

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The first episode of our second season features Nico Slate, sibling loss survivor, author, historian, and professor of history from Carnegie Mellon University. In the conversation, Drs. Slate and Dean discuss topics that impacted Dr. Slate's grieving, identity, development, and healing including race, family, socioeconomic differences, and so much more.

Dr. Slate's book, "Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race" was published by Temple University Press and released in 2023. It is now available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Temple University, and hopefully your local bookstore.
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/brothers

More information on our guest can be found at https://nicoslate.com/my-historyy/

If you would like more information or to share your own adult sibling loss story, please contact me, Dr. Angela Dean, at contact@thebrokenpack.com or go to our website, thebrokenpack.com.

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CHAPTERS
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01:07 Intro
02:30 Who was Nico's brother?
06:14 What’s in a Name?
12:32 Missing His Brother in Middle Age
13:47 Peter as Nico’s Coach
14:14 Writing their Story
16:00 Continuing bonds with Peter
21:37 Grieving the same person differently
25:00 Bringing the story of his brother into the world
29:54 Writing as opening up to grief
35:49 Peter’s death
36:56 Normalizing talking about Sibling Loss
44:26 Current Day Support
49:48 Memories of Peter

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