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Michelle Pugle is a health and wellness writer, journalist, and news reporter featured on Healthline News, Psych Central, Everyday Health, Verywell Health, Goalcast, and the National Eating Disorder Information Centre.
She has earned degrees in Feminist Research (MA), English (BA), and Sociology (BA).
She holds certifications in Mental Health First Aid & Suicide Prevention, Holistic Herbal Therapy, Usui Reiki, and Wellness Coaching.
Michelle lives well with fibromyalgia and CPTSD and has written extensively about lived experiences with other conditions including anorexia and alcohol use disorder.
Books include Ana, Mia & Me: An Eating Disorder Recovery Memoir and Space to Grow, Poems.
MENTAL HEALTH CONTENT
written by Michelle
Written for Psych Central
Sometimes, others’ good intentions and attempts to support you can be harmful. Denying the impact of trauma doesn’t make it go away — and could actually make it worse. Find out how to cope in a healthy way.
Written for Everyday Health
Actually, it’s a buzzword to describe a real clinical diagnosis, persistent depressive disorder, also known as dysthymia. Here’s what that really means.
How to Help Someone With an Alcohol Use Disorder
Written for Everyday Health
The support of family and friends can make a big difference in someone’s recovery from alcohol use disorder, especially in the early stages
What are Success Strategies?
Written for Goalcast
Success is defined by what you want out of life. Someone else’s goals do not need to be your goals. Whatever you want and whatever looks like success to you, go for it with everything you’ve got.
How to talk to a loved one about your drinking
Written for The National Drug Helpline
Interviews with Abe Malkin, MD, MBA, founder and medical director of Concierge MD LA, a home-based concierge medical practice, and Elite Home Detox, an in-home substance-use detox service, and Patrick Cooke, a conscious-sobriety coach who works with artists and creatives to change their relationship with alcohol, and Mike Diamond, a former reality TV star, motivational speaker/author, and certified interventionist who is also certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
how to get sober
Written for Verywell Health
Since there are different reasons for using drugs and alcohol, there are also varying reasons why someone wants to get sober. Whatever your "why," know that with treatment and support, getting sober is not only possible, but it’s also manageable long-term.
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In the U.S.
Text or call 988 for the new national crisis line