Michelle Linn-Gust is an international author and speaker about suicide prevention and postvention issues. She is the author of Ginger's Gift: Hope and Healing Through Dog Companionship.
Her first book, 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. She currently serves as the Survivor Division Chair for the American Association of Suicidology.
She earned her doctorate in Family Studies at the University of New Mexico where her dissertation study focused on how people use a dog to help them cope with the death of a human loved one. She is a co-chair of the Postvention Taskforce for the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
She divides her time between Naperville, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband, Joe Gust, and their four dogs: Chaco, Nestle, Daisy, and Hattie. Visit her at www.siblingsurvivors.com.
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