National Survivors of Suicide Day November 20th

Michelle Linn-Gust will be the keynote speaker at a Day of Healing on November, 20, National Survivors of Suicide Day in Colorado Springs, CO. More about the event is available here:

http://heartbeatsurvivorsaftersuicide.org/events/2010-20-Nov_30yrs.pdf

Michelle to speak at Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Conference

Michelle Linn-Gust will be the keynote speaker of the survivors of suicide conference held as part of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention conference. She also will be the closing keynote of the CASP conference. See more information about this event in October in Nova Scotia here.

Michelle Linn-Gust to work with siblings at TAPS events

TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) will be hosting a Military Suicide Survivor Seminar in October in Washington, DC. Michelle Linn-Gust will be there to work with the siblings. See the web site for more information here.

Michelle Linn-Gust to Discuss Suicide Grief in Ohio

Michelle Linn-Gust will speak in the Columbus, Ohio, area September 21-23, 2010, discussing suicide grief. Check out the link for more information: http://www.hospiceofknox.org/documents/SuicideSeminarNspArticle9_001.pdf.

National Suicide Prevention Week Begins

Today starts National Suicide Prevention Week and Friday (September 10) is World Suicide Prevention Day. As a sibling survivor of suicide, this is important for all of us. It’s an opportunity to take what we’ve learned from our loss and help someone else by educating people about the warning signs of depression and suicide. We ache for our loved ones but it’s also a time where we can do something to help others since we can’t bring our siblings back. Check out the web site www.take5tosavelives.com for more information. Michelle blogs about the importance of this week for all of us at http://bereavedbysuicide.wordpress.com/.

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.

http://bereavedbysuicide.wordpress.com/

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.

http://bereavedbysuicide.wordpress.com/