Own Your Awkward: How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Our Mental Health

by Michelle Morgan

Let's be honest—it can be really awkward talking about our mental health! Whether you're offering someone support or looking for ways to help yourself, these conversations can feel difficult, embarrassing, and complex.

In Own Your Awkward, Michelle Morgan, Mental Health First Aid Ambassador, trainer, and speaker explores why we feel awkward and shows us how to talk more openly about our mental health—and how we really can embrace our awkward.

Through her own story of burnout, clinical depression, and anxiety, combined with the lived experience of others, Michelle explains how you can transform those tricky moments into your power using four key cornerstones—confidence, capability, communication, and compassion—to help reframe your story. You'll learn how to start those all-important conversations, with clear steps and practical advice.

It's time to get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, love your awkward and have better and braver conversations about mental health.

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Published October 24, 2023

About the author

Michelle Morgan is the author of The Ice Cream Blonde, The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals, Marilyn's Addresses, and Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed. She has been interviewed on dozens of radio stations and featured on many television programs, including the BBC National News.