Wild Sibling Grief Prompts: The Name You Carry

9 prompts for a bereaved sibling's silence, the speaking, and everything in between

These prompts go where the newsletter left off. They are for your journal, your voice memo, a trusted friend, quiet hour you didn't know what to do with. Use them in order or out of order. You don’t have to answer all of them. Some are invitations to stay with something, not to resolve it.

David Eagleman wrote that there are three deaths. The first is when the body stops. The second is the burial. The third is the last time the person’s name is spoken.

We can’t prevent the first two. The third one is in our hands. These prompts move from the experience of silence around your sibling’s name, to what that silence costs, to what it means to keep speaking, to carrying the name forward regardless of whether the world made room for it.