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

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.