by Michelle Bersell | Sep 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. What growth we have had as a society, as the once unmentionable subject of suicide, is more and more openly discussed. And for good reason, as suicide rates continue to increase. When feeling suicidal, you can’t find a...
by Michelle Bersell | Aug 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’ve been waking up early most days over the last few weeks. The feelings are a mixture of anxiety, sadness, and grief. I hear those emotions calling me to face the fact that change is happening. I listen closely. My anxiety doesn’t want me to forget the million...
by Michelle Bersell | Jul 28, 2023 | Emotional Empowerment, Health
“We can be an agent of disease and death just by how we treat others.” Take a moment to take this statement in. The truth of what Dr. David Williams, chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard, shared blew me away. He...
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...
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....