For siblings
This is a safe space to read about other siblings’ experiences, find support, or share your story. Feel free to send us your writing, music, poems, or any other resources that you feel could help another grieving siblings. To contribute, simply email our web team.
You may also wish to receive our magazine which has a dedicated area for siblings.
Our sibling members often connect in our private online forums. Membership is free and you can join here.
Welcome to our family of support
The Sibling's Credo
We are the surviving siblings of The Compassionate Friends.
We are brought together by the deaths of our brothers and sisters.
Open your hearts to us, but have patience with us. Sometimes we will need the support of our friends. At other times we need our families to be there. Sometimes we must walk alone, taking our memories with us, continuing to become the individuals we want to be.
We cannot be our dead brother or sister; however, a special part of them lives on with us.
When our brothers and sisters died, our lives changed. We are living a life very different from what we envisioned, and we feel the responsibility to be strong even when we feel weak. Yet we can go on because we understand better than many others the value of family and the precious gift of life.
Our goal is not to be the forgotten mourners that we sometimes are, but to walk together to face our tomorrows as surviving siblings of The Compassionate Friends.
Resources for siblings
Peer support
Our sibling chapter meets every month and is for anyone, of any age, who has lost a sibling.
When: The last Thursday of each month
Where: The Pitt Street Centre, Suite 603, 6th Floor, 109 Pitt Street, Sydney
For more info: Call Maree on 0403 796 118
Sibling grief
Carly Fisher lost her brother Nic when he was 12 years old. She is now a registered psychologist, and created this presentation.
These brochures may also offer helpful information:
Support links
The National Centre for Childhood Grief
Loving support in a safe place where children grieving a death can share their experience as they learn to live with its impact on their lives.
The Bereavement C.A.R.E. Centre
Counselling and support services for people who are terminally ill and their families, or are recently bereaved.
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
An independent, not for profit organisation which supports grieving families.
A safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families who are grieving a death can share their experiences and find support.
Grief support groups and online forums which provide support after the loss of a sibling.
TCF Victoria Bereaved Sibling Support Online Chat Service
Speaking to another bereaved sibling is an experience that changes you. It is a relief when you find that there are others who can fully relate through the same lived experience and know what it's like to continue with an ever-present sibling void. It opens a part of you and allows you to talk about your sibling freely.