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Messages of Hope on Michelle’s Blog

Although it’s been 17 1/2 years since Michelle’s sister Denise died by suicide and inspired this web site when Michelle couldn’t find other sibling survivors of suicide to connect to (and nine years since the publishing of Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling), Michelle continues to help people cope with loss by speaking and writing about suicide grief. Her blog is available here.

National Suicide Prevention Week…Also a Time for Remembrance

National Suicide Prevention week is September 5-11, 2010, with World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, 2010. The week and the day are an opportunity to educate people on the warning signs of suicide and to remember our loved ones who have died by suicide. Often it is through telling our stories that we are able to help other people and have an opportunity to share our memories of our siblings. More information on both events is available on the American Association of Suicidology web site. To purchase your purple and turquoise pins and/or wristbands go to the Chellehead Works store.

Michelle Linn-Gust’s work featured in The Naperville Sun

An article about Michelle Linn-Gust’s work was featured in The Naperville (Illinois) Sun newspaper today, her hometown. Read it here.

Rocky Roads finally arrives

After writing earlier that Rocky Roads wasn’t going to arrive today, I found out the books came into Albuquerque early this morning and we were able to go pick them up them up since the shipper couldn’t bring them until Monday.

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Rocky Roads…is on the road

Michelle Linn-Gust’s blog entry about waiting for Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief to arrive and how it parallels the arrival of Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling nine years ago.

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Rocky Roads, the first book for the family system after a suicide, to ship April 16

The first book for the family system after a suicide, Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief, will be begin shipping next week, no later than April 16. Copies can be ordered via bookstores, online bookstores (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc), or through www.chelleheadworks.com. If you order via www.chelleheadworks.com, you will receive your copy before books ordered through bookstores/online bookstores. And your copies can be signed by Michelle Linn-Gust if you would like by adding a note in the ordering instructions box.

In anticipation of Rocky Roads, some reflections

As we wait for Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief to ship, Michelle Linn-Gust shares her reflections on her blog about the past nine years since Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling became a reality.

Master’s research study seeks survivors of suicide/bereaved by suicide

Master’s degree research study seeks bereaved by suicide/suicide survivor participants. The researcher is a sibling survivor of suicide. Please participate and forward: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/survivorstudy

Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief

Michelle Linn-Gust’s new book, her first on suicide grief since the release of Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, will be published in April. Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief discusses the individual and group needs in families after a suicide, helping families to find hope following the suicide of a loved one. More about the book can be found at www.familysuicidegrief.com and on the Rocky Roads’ Facebook fan page.

“Helping people through the grief of suicide loss” podcast

Michelle Linn-Gust did this interview in May 2008 at the Bridging Divide Summit Conference at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Check it out here. Michelle’s voice isn’t heard clearly in the very beginning but stick with it for about 30 seconds and it will open up.