Contributors

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Dr. Angela Dean

Angela M. Dean, PsyD, FT  is the founder and owner of The Broken Pack, LLC., an organization supporting sibling loss survivors, building community, speaking at conferences, & educating others on sibling loss grief and grief in general.

Dr. Dean is a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a psychologist, a fellow in thanatology, & a surviving sibling. As a psychologist, Dr. Dean's work focuses on helping individuals and families with chronic illness, grief, loss, anxiety, depression, & non-death losses.  She is also a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying, & Bereavement through the Association of Death Education & Counseling (ADEC).

Dr. Dean has dedicated her life and work to ensuring that no sibling loss survivor feels misunderstood or unsupported.

More info on her and her private practice can be found here and on The Broken Pack here.

https://thebrokenpack.com/

Guests

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Dr. Christina Zampitella

Dr. Christina Zampitella, known as Dr. Z, is a licensed psychologist, Fellow in Thanatology, and founder of the Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy in Delaware. She originated the term "surviving sibling" in her 2005 doctoral dissertation, bringing recognition to one of grief's most overlooked populations. For decades she has published, taught, and spoken about sibling grief to professional and lay audiences locally, nationally, and internationally. She also hosts Phoenix Rising with Dr. Z. But beneath the credentials, she is a surviving sibling herself. Dr. Z lost her brother Damien to a drug overdose on Christmas Day when he was just 22, a loss that shaped her career, her calling, and her understanding of what it means to carry someone with you forever. She reminds us that healing is not about getting over it. It is about learning to carry it.

https://linktr.ee/phoenixrising_drz

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Nina Rodriguez

Nina Rodriguez is the creator and host of Grief and Light, a podcast and online grief support platform dedicated to fostering a more grief-informed, hopeful world through honest conversations about loss. After losing her only sibling, Yosef, to fentanyl poisoning in 2019, Nina turned her grief into a calling. Her work focuses on shining a light on the realities of life after loss, with a particular focus on sibling grief. Nina is based in South Florida and brings a background in public relations and real estate to her current work as a grief advocate, speaker, and content creator.

https://www.griefandlight.com/about

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