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"Every person's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers" -- Hans Christian Andersen
"Conquering the Mysteries and Lies of Grief" is a circuit breaker for the brain.
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Sherry worked with over a thousand people in the throes of grief. She designed a series of Grief Workshops that supplies the cruicial information needed to find some stability in the herculean storm of loss.
Through her own dealings with the deaths of numerous family and friends, she realized that the cookie cutter solutions offered didn't affirm or confirm a person's feelings. "Conquering the Mysteries and Lies of Grief" explores some of the more controversial topics as well as the scattered viewpoints about grief including hallucinations, anger, and the domino effect of stress.
Sherry Russell is a highly sought after speaker and workshop presenter on grief and crisis. She has been instrumental in bringing a range of trauma and bereavement reaction preparation and management services to companies, nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies. Sherry's broad range of experience provides companies and professionals with valuable expertise. She has shared her expertise as a leading Grief Specialist, a Board Certified Trauma Specialist, and as a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stess with a wide range of audiences from those surviving a loss to physicians, social workers, psychologists and licensed mental health workers.
Sherry Russell is a Grief Management Specialist, Board Certified in Bereavement Trauma, Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress and a Diplomate, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She is a member of a Suicidology Research Program, American Academy of Experts for Traumatic Stress, Association of Death Education and Counseling National and Florida Chapter, and is listed in the International Academy of Experts. Sherry's volunteer work includes being a mentor for "at risk" teens, providing articles on mental health issues for non profit organizations, grief resources for natural disasters, breast cancer legislative volunteer, animal rescue, and hospital patient advocate.
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Birth Place
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Lexington, KY
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Accomplishments
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Sherry's career has been an unusual and varied one. She has appeared in television commercials and was the main talent for a television pilot. She has been recognized by the Small Business Adminstration while owning her own business.
Through public speaking she has touched many people with specific, frank and inspirational information about life, death and the grief in between.
Sherry is a Grief Management Specialist, researcher, and speaker. She is a member of the National Center for Crisis and The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and listed in the International Directory of Experts. She has numerous articles published on websites as well as in trade magazines.
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"Conquering the Mysteries and Lies of Grief" is presently being utilized in college class rooms in the US and abroad. "The Life Adventures of ZeldaLou and BabyBoo" is in the publishing process. The series is designed to delight and enlighten children and parents as well. It investigates a child's emotions on how it feels to be born "different" in a perfect world.
Sherry is presently working on a book for teens to help them process their grief and anger issues. She is working on a research project following four seperate families dealing with different types of losses.
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Catch a Falling Life
Catch a Falling Life™ offers comprehensive educational resources and services in the areas of grief, traumatic stress and crisis. This innovative educational organization provides continuing education for professionals and training programs for those interested in working with people in grief and crisis.
Grief is triggered by many different circumstances including the death of a loved one, divorce, disease, depression, social, financial, emotional and spiritual loss as well as natural disasters and terrorism. Loss has an impact on the individual and the family spotlighting the importance of understanding family dynamics.
Our goal is to foster awareness to the immediate and continuing needs of individuals coping with loss and traumatic stress. The mission is to provide people the means to tackle and manage the worst kind of adversity.
CFL strives to provide the most up to date approaches to age old problems.
Pull Your Own Wagon™ with Crisis Gertie
Educational resources helping children deal
with loss and learn coping skills.
National Center for Crisis Management
The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress® is a multidisciplinary network of professionals who are committed to the advancement of intervention for survivors of trauma. The Academy aims to identify expertise among professionals, across disciplines, and to provide meaningful standards for those who work regularly with survivors.
The National Center for Crisis Management offers workshops, presentations and seminars by professionals, across disciplines, who aim to assist others before, during and in the aftermath of a crisis.
The Bright Side Organization
Sherry is on the Board of Advisors for the Coping with Loss section. She offers an interesting and thought provoking monthly column. As the site says: "Whether dealing with a crisis, coping with a mental disorder, or just feeling overwhelmed with life, we all go through difficult periods in our life. When life feels like it's too much of a strain, a little bit of support can go a long way towards helping us cope - that is what The Bright Side is all about".
ShareGrief
Grief Specialists volunteer to help those in grief.
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