Amy K.L. Busch

Amy K. L. Busch is a life coach, a writer, and the founder of amybuschcoaching.com. When Amy lost her only sibling to cancer in 2017, she felt the responsibility to care for all of the other people in her life, including her parents and her brother’s young family, all while struggling through her own devastating journey of grief and loss. She searched for books that would help guide her through her journey as a bereaved sibling and found that adult sibling grief is not widely covered in the literature. Her book Permission to Grieve: A Journey from Sibling Loss to Restored Hope was written in the hope that it will help other bereaved siblings to navigate their grief by validating their loss and by focusing on resilience and the importance of self-care. Amy’s mission is to help those who have experienced loss navigate and thrive through change by applying change management techniques she uses in her corporate world of software development. She holds a Masters of Information Systems and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver, and is an avid life-long learner. She lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado with her incredibly supportive husband, two amazing children, and two adorable dogs.

Articles:

Every Person Has the Right to Grieve

Every Person Has the Right to Grieve The title of one’s relationship does not dictate the depth of one’s grief.  Each and every person has a right to grieve and receive the support they need, regardless of the relationship to the person deceased. Six months after my brother Dan died, I attended a theatre performance.  Some of Dan’s fellow performers, people whom I had watched him perform with on the exact same stage, were performing in a humorous, almost goofy show.  Despite my volatile emotions, as I watched them do the very thing my little brother loved so much, I […]

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Emotional Grief Lessons

Emotional Grief Lessons Through my rollercoaster of emotions, I have learned a number of emotional grief lessons: 1. Grief can be surprising in its breadth of emotions.  I have learned this is normal.  Some people cry. Some people laugh. Others lash out while still others retreat. Sometimes many emotions hit all at once, and it is difficult to sort them out.  Sometimes numbness prevails, and there is no emotion at all.  In my experience, the best way to deal with the emotions has been to greet them as they come, and then to invite them to sit with me awhile. […]

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Sibling Loss: Losing Part of Myself

Losing Part of Myself It goes without saying that sadness and despair have been part of my grief journey.  Losing a sibling is so jarring.  When Dan died, I lost not only my brother, but a part of my past, my present, and our future together.  I was also losing part of myself and my identity in the world.   Since he was my only sibling, Dan was the only person who could corroborate what it was like growing up in our home.  In past years, I would frequently reach out to Dan to reminisce or to confirm my memory about […]

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Every Person Has the Right to Grieve

Every Person Has the Right to Grieve The title of one’s relationship does not dictate the depth of one’s grief.  Each and every person has a right to grieve and receive the support they need, regardless of the relationship to the person deceased. Six months after my brother Dan died, I attended a theatre performance.  Some of Dan’s fellow performers, people whom I had watched him perform with on the exact same stage, were performing in a humorous, almost goofy show.  Despite my volatile emotions, as I watched them do the very thing my little brother loved so much, I […]

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