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Alice wonder commented on Michelle Linn-Gust's blog post Our loved ones want us to be happyMichelle Linn-Gust, Ph.D., President of the American Association of Suicidology, has spent the past nineteen years educating people worldwide about coping with loss and change following the suicide of her younger sister. Her eighth book, Conversations with the Water: A Memoir of Cultivating Hope (due out in November 2012), chronicles her grief journey as she moves forward beyond the suicide and loss field. Her first book, based on Denise’s suicide, Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, inspired siblings around the world in their survival after a loved one’s suicide. Learn more about Michelle at www.inspirebymichelle.com.
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There is little we know about how families grieve over time. Although the field of grief research is growing, we have yet to explore much about family bereavement. And we know even less about what happens to military families who have suffered the death of an active duty soldier.
With the number of military deaths increasing (not just those killed in action but suicides and accidents as well), there…
Continue Posted on December 20, 2012 at 3:00pm 4 Comments 1 Like
It was all about the Barbie bathtub.
I can remember it like it was yesterday– the moment when my younger sister Denise and I found the Barbie bathtub that I was going to get for Christmas. It was in a cedar closet my dad had built in the basement. I don’t think we were…
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One afternoon recently, after being out for several hours, I drove up to find several packages on my front porch. One of them was the final proof of my new book,…
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:30pm 1 Comment 1 Like
Over the past year I have watched my life come full circle. Some things that didn’t pan out in the years before my sister’s death, or things I lost interest in mostly because I was a busy college student, have come back into my life.
A few summers before Denise died in 1991 I had an opportunity to work at my local newspaper but it didn’t work out. Then a few months ago I…
Theresa Sweaney said… I wonder if you might be able to help me. I just got home from talking to a young man after our Survivors of Suicide group meeting, and he is struggling from the loss of his brother, his only sibling. Do you know of any resources espcially for a sibling survivor who has lost his one and only sib?
BETTY J LOWE said… 
Carrie L said… Michelle I read your blog about your move. When people die it changes your life. and I can see you want to live life. I suppose sibling death is different than child death by far. I can't say i will ever throw anything of his away wish i had more from him. wish i could go back and relive those years. Life will never be the same for me. It is a very sad journey. I am not very far along and it will be two years spring. nor will i ever be. too much regret. I will channel it somehow and spring ahead some how. for my other kids ...
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