Meet Michelle Linn-Gust
Michelle Linn-Gust is an international author and speaker about suicide prevention and postvention issues. She also 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 President-Elect for the American Association of Suicidology and her most recent book is Rocky Roads: The Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief.
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 lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband, Joe Gust, and their four dogs: Chaco, Nestle, Gidget, and Hattie. Visit her at www.michellelinngust.com.
Find Michelle on Facebook or Twitter and keep up with her dogs and her work as she inspires people to find hope after loss worldwide.