Michelle Bersell, Author at International Institute for Emotional Empowerment

Navigating Unmet Expectations

by Michelle Bersell | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized

I’ve been there… When you’ve got an idea of how something will go, perhaps even someone led you to believe it would go a certain way, but the reality of your experience falls short of what you expected. Perhaps you received an email from a colleague who told you...

Quiz: What’s Your Mental Health Awareness?

by Michelle Bersell | May 18, 2023 | Emotional Empowerment, Uncategorized

More and more people believe that our awareness about mental health needs to be an everyday occurrence. But what does it mean to be aware? Definitions of awareness include: – Concern about and well-informed interest in a particular situation or development....

Demystifying Work-Life Balance

by Michelle Bersell | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

April is Stress Awareness month, and part of what is essential to recognize is the psychological cause of stress, which is uncomfortable emotional experiences. Negative emotions arise when we are stressed because we experience pressure to be and do more than what our...

Force Versus Influence

by Michelle Bersell | Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized

When organizations are in a state of fear about profits and results, the go-to has been to turn to force to change employees’ behaviors. For example, force them to come into the office five days a week, attend more meetings, be monitored at their computer, etc. The...

Putting an end to disqualifying ourselves as women

by Michelle Bersell | Mar 7, 2023 | Emotional Empowerment, Uncategorized

What I admire most about women is our ability to be simultaneously strong yet yielding. Early on in my life, I used to think that these qualities were an either-or proposition. Yet, we were literally born to be both. It is what is required of us, whether we give birth...