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 loved ones. 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.
Article in The Naperville Sun about Michelle
Michelle’s hometown newspaper, The Naperville (Illinois) Sun published an article about Michelle on July 7, 2010. Read it here.
Posttraumatic Growth Suicide Loss Study seeks participants
Parents who lost their child, of any age, to suicide within the last two years are needed to participate in a study on the effects of this loss. Despite the burden of suicide in the United States and judgment by mental health professionals that this cause of death creates a unique form of grief, there is very little information available on this form of bereavement. The goal of this study is to help contribute to our understanding of what a survivor experiences and how we can better help survivors in the future. The survey is available online, is completely confidential, voluntary, and should take about 20 minutes to complete. It is important to fill out all parts of the survey. If you are interested in participating and contributing to this important body of research, please log-on to: www.posttraumaticgrowth.com.
Newsweek and Family Suicide Grief: Joan and Melissa Rivers
See Michelle’s latest blog entry discussing an article about Joan Rivers in Newsweek and how it shows that even over 20 years after the death of a loved one, family members can be in different places in their grief (http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/15/can-we-talk.html).
Michelle’s Blogs about Suicide Grief
Michelle blogs at least once a week about suicide grief and her experiences speaking with people and helping people cope and find hope again. In today’s blog, she discusses the importance of helping families find their strengths. Read the blogs here.
Rocky Roads Facebook Fan Page
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Rocky Roads 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 Rocky Roads taking a few extra days to arrive.
http://bereavedbysuicide.wordpress.com/
Rocky Roads comes available!
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.
Some reflections as Rocky Roads draws near
As the publication of Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief is around the corner, Michelle Linn-Gust shares her reflections of the past nine years, since the publication of her first book, Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, on her blog.