Dr. Angela Dean PsyD, FT

I'm Dr. Angela Dean, PsyD, FT, a licensed psychologist and Fellow in Thanatology. I'm the founder of The Broken Pack, the first comprehensive education platform dedicated to sibling loss. We serve surviving siblings across the lifespan and the clinicians, educators, and loved ones who walk alongside them. My own brother died in 2020. What I learned is that sibling grievers are some of the most overlooked people in our conversations about loss. Parents, partners, and children get scripts and rituals. Siblings get silence, or the assumption that they should be holding everyone else up. The Broken Pack exists because I needed it to exist. The way I think about grief is grounded in the people who actually study it:. Dr. Kenneth Doka on disenfranchised grief, Dr. Robert Neimeyer on meaning...