Rock On: Surviving Sibling Loss with Susan E. Casey
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Susan E. Casey, MSW, MFA, is a writer, a licensed mental health clinician, a certified bereavement group facilitator, and a certified life coach. Throughout the past 25 years, Susan has worked in hospice, in-patient, and home-based settings with teens and adults, and taught numerous courses to executive leaders and clinicians.
Currently, Susan works for a measurement-based care organization, providing clinical coaching to therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists countrywide to improve mental health outcomes for youth and adults. Susan’s blog, www.susanecasey.com, chronicles her grieving process following the death of her younger brother. Her fiction has won numerous awards, including first place in the PEN/Nob Hill Literary Contest and Green Writer’s National Literary Contest. Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief is her first work of nonfiction. Both Susan’s professional and creative work have been guided by her deep belief that every individual has purpose and inherent strengths and deserves the opportunity to reach their own unique potential. Susan lives in Maine with her husband Steve and golden retriever Indy.
In today's episode we discuss:
What is forgotten grief?
Why do you think a sibling death gets so little recognition?
How did your siblings death shift the course of your life?
what kind of perspective change happened for you after this?
Did you feel you received communication from your sibling since the death?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm a clinical psychologist and medium and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, Susan E. Casey is on the show. Susan is an MSW, MFA, writer, licensed mental health clinician, certified bereavement group facilitator and certified life coach. Throughout the past 25 years, Susan has worked in hospice, inpatient, and home-based settings with teens and adults |
| 0:38.7 | and taught numerous courses to executive leaders and clinicians. Currently, Susan works for a |
| 0:44.8 | measurement-based care organization provided clinical coaching for therapists, psychologists, |
| 0:50.8 | and psychiatrists to improve mental health outcomes for youth and adults. |
| 0:57.0 | Susan's blog, Susan E.Casey.com, chronicles her grieving process following the death of her younger brother. |
| 1:07.8 | Her fiction has won numerous awards, including first place in the Penn Knob Hill Literary Contest |
| 1:14.2 | and Green Writers National Literary Contest. |
| 1:17.7 | Rock on, Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief, is her first of nonfiction. |
| 1:25.2 | That is what we're here to talk about today. So welcome, Susan. Thank you, Amy. |
| 1:30.4 | Thank you so much for having me. I've been really looking forward to our conversation. |
| 1:34.9 | Me too. And interestingly, we're recording the week of Kobe Bryant's Memorial. And I actually read |
| 1:42.2 | an article right kind of before you and I were going to not today but |
| 1:46.7 | before we were going to get talking about this about sibling grief as it relates to her |
| 1:53.7 | I guess Gigi's oldest daughter so it's so Natalia I think was her name it apropos, I think, that we're kind of talking about this |
| 2:02.8 | and bringing this to the forefront right now, because when we have a public figure where we can |
| 2:06.9 | really kind of illuminate it, it seems to help people. So let's talk about what this forgotten grief is, |
| 2:14.9 | Cypink grief. Well, yeah, and before I leap into that question, just on the Kobe Bryant front, |
| 2:20.5 | I'm not sure what article you saw, but I was a contributing writer to the hope, |
| 2:27.1 | hope.com. |
| 2:28.0 | And I, in the article, there was an article that speaks directly to this minimizing, |
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