Living the dream with author and TEDx Speaker Michelle E. Dickenson

Michelle Dickenson is an Author & TEDx Speaker. I recenter employees and transform the mental health stigma in the workplace. The CDC says that 1 in 3 Americans are dealing with depression or anxiety due to COVID. The emotional impact of the pandemic is hitting many of us. The United Nations released a policy brief entitled COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health citing the deep toll the crisis has taken due to social isolation, losing a loved one, and the economic turmoil from lost income. Now, more than ever, we need to normalize the mental health conversation. Return to work anxiety is very real for so many people also. Setting up your home for harmony is also a challenge for many. Invite Michelle to share tips and strategies to help ease anxiety and how to create a home environment and structure that will best support your family. Michelle has experienced the "trifecta" of mental health. Michelle grew up loving and caring for her bipolar mother. Michelle helped build the largest mental health employee resource group at a fortune 50 company. Michelle experienced depression due to a life event reminding her that nobody is immune to mental illness at any given point in their life. Michelles book Breaking Into My Life was written to help herself—along with the rest of us—better understand the world of mental illness. Michelles story of perseverance and triumph helps challenge and transform the “suffer in silence” dynamic, and makes mental illness more understood, treated and accepted. Michelle is out to do her part to eliminate the stigma by normalizing the mental health conversation in workplaces and within the first responder community. Michelle partners with innovative leaders to bring her programs and mental health strategies to help them cultivate cultures of compassion for those living with or caring for those with invisible disabilities. Michelles Resilience webinar has made an impact with empowering hundreds of employees during COVID-19 quarantine.www.careforyourpeople.comwww.b....reakingintomylife.co