Conversations with the Water

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.

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.

Michelle 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, 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.