Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling is the first comprehensive resource for sibling suicide survivors. Michelle Linn-Gust takes the reader through the personal experience of losing her younger sister Denise Linn and weaves in the available research for sibling survivors. Michelle also journeys sibling loss through the life span. No matter how old you are, you’ll find valuable help in Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? 
Michelle explains suicide, the grief process, and how sibling death impacts the brothers and sisters left behind. She adds practical advice for how sibling suicide survivors can help themselves. 
This book is also wonderful for those who want to reach out to sibling survivors including parents, teacher, counselors, and friends. Reading Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? assists them in understanding the grief process that the sibling survivor endures. 
Included are resource pages filled with helpful places for sibling survivors to search for specific information. 
Most significant, however, is that Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? delivers a message of hope that one can survive a sibling suicide death.

Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling

Linn-Gust, Michelle

Parenting & Relationships

Chellehead Works

The grief journey following a suicide loss is not a quick and easy path. Because people are unique, as are the life experiences of individuals, the road can open up in several ways for each person. No one travels the same way. In Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief, Michelle Linn-Gust, the author of Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, guides the family unit with a road map to navigate suicide grief as individuals and also as part of the family unit with the ultimate goal of strengthening the family even after a devastating suicide loss.

Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families Through Suicide Grief

When Michelle Linn-Gust and her husband, Joe, brought Chaco, a charmingly neurotic mutt, to live with them, they didn t realize what they were getting into. Michelle had grown up in a close-knit dog-loving family, but owning a dog in her own home was a new experience. Not long after she and Joe became dog parents, Joe suffered a traumatic brain injury when a drunk driver crashed into his truck. Before long, the Linn-Gusts had four dogs, the maximum number allowed by the City of Albuquerque, and they couldn t seem to stop acquiring dogs. Whether Michelle was out running a road race or Joe was doing relief work following Hurricane Katrina, they opened their arms to just one more. With no room for more dogs at their house, they set to finding a dog for Michelle's mother in Chicago. What they didn t realize was that the yellow Labrador dog wouldn t ever meet Michelle's Dad, the one person against having a dog in the house. Suddenly, Ginger's importance in Michelle's mom's life would be more than anyone could explain. In Ginger's Gift, Michelle tells the story of their lives as dog owners and of the ways that dogs have helped her and Joe through the difficult passages that all humans must face.

Ginger's Gift: Hope and Healing Through Dog Companionship

Michelle Linn-Gust

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The journey after the suicide of a loved one is winding, always changing. For the people who want to support the bereaved, or are asked to support the bereaved (professional or volunteer), it can be difficult to understand that winding road, especially because of the stigma that suicide traditionally has held with it. Michelle Linn-Gust, Ph.D., and John Peters, M.Suicidology, have both traveled their own winding roads and now look to teach others in a global perspective not yet seen. Winding Road: A Handbook for Supporting the Suicide Bereaved discusses a myriad of issues around the topic from why suicide happens to helping children cope and how culture and religion take a role in how suicide and suicide grief are viewed. Mostly though, the book offers hope that the people who are supporting the bereaved can help understand the winding road so the bereaved don't have to travel it alone.

A Winding Road: A Handbook for Those Supporting the Suicide Bereaved

John Peters

PH.D.

M.Suicidology

Surviving suicide loss is often about telling the story. Each person who dies by suicide leaves behind a life shared with loved ones and a series of events that led to the suicide. Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved features the stories of fourteen people in their own words of the losses that have forever changed their lives. These stories describe the endurance of travelingthrough grief. In addition, the proceeds from the book benefit a fund for suicide bereavement research at the American Association of Suicidology. The goal is that the stories shared here will help others who also must travel the same journey seeking hope after a devastating loss.

Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved

Self-Help

Julie Cerel

Death & Grief

College English professor Rachel Monroe realizes that life is about connections. Before her husband Tom’s death from cancer, he made her promise that she would pursue all the goals and dreams she had left behind in her life. Knowing that even in death Tom is leading her, Rachel completes her first fiction manuscript, one of the goals she had never accomplished, and finds a second career as a writer. When a publicity tour takes her from her Kansas home to Australia, she has the opportunity to find her Australian high school pen pal, Jenny Phillips, who had quit writing near the end of their senior year. Rachel visits Coolum Beach, the oceanside town where Jenny lived most of the years the two girls corresponded. Rachel can sense a change, that Tom isn’t guiding her as he once was. She struggles with a new manuscript and reconciling her hope that somehow she’ll find Jenny. In the process, she meets Jamie Stephens and as Jamie’s life becomes intertwined with Rachel’s, she begins to understand that her connection to Jenny was not just about writing letters, but ultimately a guide for Rachel’s life.

The Australian Pen Pal

Literature & Fiction

Women's Fiction

Forced by her friends to be the first at a party to get a psychic reading, high school English teacher Sarah McCall learns more than she understands about the suicide death of her younger sister, Jenna.  She dismisses the idea of a karmic agreement, that she and her sister formed a pact as souls before entering their respective lives. But, after the ten-year anniversary of Jenna's suicide passes, the reading takes Sarah on a path of reflecting on her sister's life, her own life, and their lives together tightly intertwined with baseball, oatmeal cookies, and the dream of opening a bakery. Sarah realizes she must confront her fears that Jenna’s death left behind after baseball coach Mark Lennon approaches Sarah about providing her oatmeal cookies as part of a fundraiser for his team. However, the two aspects she does not expect are how her life begins to change and her accepting that maybe she and Jenna did agree to something more than is visible in her life.

Sisters: The Karma Twist

Contemporary

For nearly twenty years Michelle Linn-Gust has journeyed through grief following the suicide of her younger sister Denise. The road has taken her through authoring seven books, speaking around the world about how to cope with suicide, and to the presidency of the American Association of Suicidology. In 2011, she took up surfing, something she always dreamed of but never thought she would, and watched her life change around her. This is her inspiring journey as she reflects back on her life with Denise, the importance of water in her relationship with her sister, and where she goes from here as she moves beyond speaking and writing about grief and loss.

Conversations with the Water: A Memoir of Cultivating Hope

Motivational

Until her Aunt Sally died, Audrey Thomas thought New Mexico was nothing more than a place people flew over on their way to Phoenix. When Aunt Sally leaves everything to Audrey—house in Albuquerque, car, and a large sum of money in the bank—Audrey plans to clean out the house and sell it, returning to Kansas City in time to start the fall semester as a high school teacher. But everything changes when she meets the neighbors, three elderly ladies, who were Sally’s best friends, and they welcome her into their lives. Soon she meets another neighbor, Vince, a handsome doctor to whom she is instantly attracted. She finds herself reading Sally’s journals and having conversations with Sally, who tells her stories that she never expected to hear. Glamorous Sally loved to shop, and Audrey makes it her goal to get fit and slender enough to wear a green dress she finds in Sally’s well-stocked closet. The biggest mystery is Sally’s true love. Who was he, and why didn’t Sally marry him? While Audrey continues to sort through her aunt’s house and figure out who he was, she and Vince begin to weave their lives together and Audrey finds they share more than just a possible future.

The Green Dress

Rusk, Michelle L.

It’s easy for everyone to say “You need to move on” when something happens to us. Yet no one explains the steps to do that. Or what forgiveness means. And the importance of taking care of not just our emotional selves, but also our physical, spiritual, and intellectual selves. In the face of loss and change in our lives, how do we go forward to find the flowers and stars we all long for? Michelle L. Rusk, Ph.D., has traveled the world for nearly twenty years educating people about how to cope with suicide loss. In Flowers by Day, Stars by Night: Finding Happiness after Loss and Change she reveals what has helped her cope with not only the suicide loss of her younger sister, but the deaths of both her parents and the end of a marriage. Life is filled with loss and change. Michelle looks back on her life now and sees much of what helped her to continue to find happiness in the face of loss. Using journal writing and other activities, she sets a path with markers along the way to achieving hope. Flowers by Day, Stars by Night is her gift to helping others see that there is hope no matter what happens to us in life. We all have opportunities find happiness again.

Flowers by Day, Stars by Night: Finding Happiness after Loss and Change

Rusk Ph.D., Michelle L.

Happiness

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