This is a guide and journal created by a surviving sibling for surviving siblings. In this guide, you will learn more about what being a surviving sibling means and understand why surviving siblings are called the "forgotten mourners." This guide was created to help you along your grief journey as a bereaved sibling. It has information about being a bereaved sibling with plenty of writing prompts to help you along the way.
Regardless of where you are in your grief journey, this is a guide for you if you have lost a sibling as it helps you learn that while you may never "move on" from this loss, you can move forward. You will learn what the difference is between the two, and trust me, there is a massive difference.
Within The Grief Guide for Surviving Siblings, you will also have the following exercises:
Validating your Loss and Feelings
The Seven Stages of Grief
Grief Timeline Exercise
Getting Unstuck
Moving Forward Together
This is not only a guide but a journal for you as a bereaved sibling, a forgotten forgotten or surviving sibling as we call it on our podcast. Please use these prompts and empty pages however you like to help you along your grief journey.
Meet Linda Falasco, a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, consultant, and lecturer. Linda has faced her own heart-wrenching losses, losing both brothers, her father, grandmother, and nephew. However, instead of succumbing to despair, Linda channeled her pain into creating two powerful grief resources to support others on similar journeys. Introducing the "Mending Piece by Piece Workbook & Journals
"Mending Piece by Piece" is not just a workbook and journal; it's a guide crafted to help you honor your grief journey without judgment or impatience. With 185+ exercises, checklists, journal prompts, and 35 coping tips, quotes, and verses, this resource equips you with the tools needed to navigate grief.
Linda's unique blend of personal and professional experiences brings a rare perspective to her work. She shares information in a factual yet deeply empathetic manner, making "Mending Piece by Piece" an invaluable resource for anyone seeking healing and hope.
You can find both editions, "Mending Piece by Piece After a Suicide Loss: Guided Grief Workbook & Journal to Heal the Survivor's Heart" and "Mending Piece by Piece: A Workbook & Journal for Navigating Grief with Hope," on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Remember, your grief journey is unique, and it deserves to be honored. Let "Mending Piece by Piece" be your guide as you navigate the complex process of grief and healing. Order your copy today and take the first step toward finding hope and healing.
Mending Piece by Piece: Healing through grief, one step at a time
Patricia S. Castillo, L.M.S.W., has worked for 43 years to end violence against women and children and is Co-founder and Executive Director of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative (Putting an End to Abuse through Community Efforts) from 1990 to present, originally a coalition of 48 agencies, organizations, and individuals. She’s developed domestic violence community projects and public policy through collaboration and community organizing. She serves as an advocate, educator, and technical assistance resource to the civic, legal, medical, religious, educational, human resource and media. She is active in community coalitions and networks.
P.E.A.C.E. Initiative has created the F.A.C.T.-Family Assistance Crisis Teams, Project ADVANCE Addressing Violence and Abuse through Networking, Client Education and Empowerment and the DVSP-Domestic Violence Survivor Program.
From 1980-82 she worked as an advocate at the Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation Law Center.
From 1982- 85 she worked at the Women’s Shelter of Bexar County & did crisis intervention, counseling, & advocacy with battered families, participated in policy development, and designed a community awareness campaign.
In 1985 Ms. Castillo attended school full time and earned her Master’s degree and license in Social Work
From 1986-88, Ms. Castillo also served crime victims and their families at the San Antonio Police Department. She was the first social worker ever, in the history of the SAPD, to work in the ranks of law enforcement. While there she was assigned to the Sex Crimes Unit of the Homicide Bureau.
From 1988-90 she did casework and program development for inmate women, their children and the children’s caretakers, through the Bexar County Jail MATCH-Mothers And Their Children Program.
Nationally, she has trained and educated at numerous domestic violence conferences all over the U.S. in the past 33 years. Many of these trainings conducted in Spanish.
Internationally, she has trained in Honduras, Brazil, China, Russia, Guatemala, and Mexico. In Mexico City, she trained for the National Network of Shelters. In Monterrey Mexico, she trained staff in two programs, a shelter-Alternativas Pacíficas, and CAVIDE-Centro de Atención a Victimas de Delitos. She trained CIAM-Centro Integral de Atención a Mujeres staff in Cancun and educators in Acuña. The U.S. State Department hired her to work for them in Nicaragua and Ecuador to train personnel on issues of gender-based violence. Also, conducting most of these trainings in Spanish. She currently serves as one of 3 tri-chairs of the Non-Profit committee of the city and county Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence.
Punching their Pain Into Purpose: The story behind Gloves For Grief
Embarking on a profound journey of compassion, Gloves for Grief aka “G4G” has transformed personal
grief into a formidable force of support for others.
The G4G team, propelled by a deep commitment forged by personal experience, are pouring their
hearts into creating a haven of healing for the Grief Community. Co-Founders Ashley & Terra met in a
grief support group called Empty Arms at Saddleback Church after they both lost their sons. They
connected in their pain, but also in their desire to help people. Together they quickly realized that
although grief is a universal language that is understood by all… it is hardly spoken about. Through their
organization, they plan to change that and create more awareness & resources.
Interested in learning more about how to become a part of the G4G community? They would love to
connect!
Website: Gloves4grief.com
Instagram/ Facebook / YouTube: @glovesforgrief