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Hi, I’m Michelle.
Writer. Editor. Senior Digital Content Strategist.

Crafting stories and systems for humans
in the age of AI

A smiling woman with brown hair and gold glasses sitting on a grey couch with a brick wall behind her. She is looking away from the camera, her hand on her chin.

With more than a decade across journalism, marketing, and communications,
Michelle brings clarity, insight, and strategy to every story and system she shapes.

Featured
Mental Health
Articles

While I’ve written on a wide range of health topics — including nutrition and chronic conditions — mental health has always been my primary focus. My articles combine expert interviews, quality research, and accessible writing to inform millions of readers. Most were completed within a few days and feature insights from multiple leading experts. My training in Mental Health First Aid and Peer Support deepens my approach, helping me cover complex topics with accuracy, empathy, and care.

Metabolic Psychiatry: A New Era in Bipolar Disorder Treatment?

Over 39K+ views (2024-25) Featuring an unforgettable interview with Jan Ellison Baszucki. 29 academic sources.

Bed Rotting: How TikTok’s New ‘Self-Care’ Trend Can Trigger Depression

I covered the TikTok trend, interviewing mental health experts on its links to mood and depression.

Disordered Eating or Eating Disorder? How to Tell the Difference

I wrote an evidence-based article debunking myths about disordered eating, outlining key signs, and sharing expert insights.

What is ADHD Stimming?

This digital contribution also appeared in Verywell's Special Edition: ADHD A New Understanding.

Marketing and Communications
Experience

  • Web copy and landing pages

  • Writing for institutional newsrooms

  • Brand and campaign messaging

  • Email and social media marketing

  • Print materials and ad copy

  • Research translation 

  • Media relations and press releases

  • Workflow and process optimization

  • Providing editorial feedback and guidance

  • Integrating AI tools to enhance quality and efficiency

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Marketing and Communications Portfolio

Same-Day Event Coverage
TRU Newsroom
Reporting

Covered the same-day installation of DeDe DeRose as Thompson Rivers University's chancellor, producing a timely newsroom story that captured the event’s significance and key moments.

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University Viewbook 2026-27
Thompson Rivers University
Copywriting

Streamlined the campus viewbook, contributing marketing strategy, content planning, and copywriting while collaborating with cross-functional and pan-campus teams and considering print deadlines, brand, tone, and style, and strategic goals.

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Juris Doctor Program Landing Page
Copywriting

Wrote fresh web copy following a new web template, promoting the JD program's unique values while maintaining brand tone, voice, and style.  Created corresponding paid ad copy.

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Education & Training

Driven by curiosity and a love of learning, I’ve built on my research-focused MA and BA in Sociology and English with additional studies in Mental Health First Aid, Strategic Communications for Leaders, Peer Support, Anti-Violence Counselling, Holistic Herbal Therapy, and Reiki. These diverse experiences shape a work practice grounded in care, collaboration, and insight. 

Master of Arts

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Bachelor of Arts

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Mental Health First Aid

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Strategic Communications for Leaders

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Discover Her Books

Michelle the Author

The Human Edit:
Writing Through Grief
in the Age of AI

Explores what happens when a human writer turns to AI after a sudden death to explore loss, language, and what it means to stay human in a world of automation. 

Coming 2026

Black book cover with light blue text and a hand drawing a line across the cover. Title reads: The Human Edit: Writing Through Grief in the Age of AI
Space to Grow book cover on a moody daisy background. Cover of book is green with a woman coming out of a lily.
Michelle's hand holding up a copy of her book The Work on a brick wall background. Book has light blue cover with an illustrated woman wearing a white tank top and daisies. Title reads: The Work Best Lessons From Trauma-Informed Therapy
The diary that created the book beside it Ana, Mia & Me An Eating Disorder Recovery Memoir. Book has purple cover and illustrated three faces of a woman coming together, forming a heart where the title meets. On a wood table background.l
Space to Grow, Poems

Poetry for the seasons of becoming.
Space to Grow is a deeply personal collection of poems that follows the cycles of change—like wildflowers after fire, or roots pushing through cracked ground. Through vivid, grounded verse, Michelle Pugle explores what it means to
bend, break, and grow again.

The Work

Find clarity, compassion, and practical tools from trauma-informed therapy. Learn what trauma really is, how it affects your life, and how to cope. This book supports your journey—it’s not a substitute for professional care.

Ana, Mia & Me

It started with a diet. Or did it?

Ana, Mia & Me is a raw, unfiltered memoir written during the author's teenage years while in recovery from anorexia. What began as a journey toward acceptance quickly spiraled into something deeper—exposing painful truths about mental health, gender expectations, the beauty myth, and the illusion of control.

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"The test of any writer is the ability to develop an ownable voice that stands out amongst the public and she nailed it. "

Drew Campbell, Client

"Michelle Pugle, MA's article in Bipolar Hope, beautifully captures our founder Jan Ellison Baszucki's family's journey of using new ways of treating their son, Matt's, bipolar disorder. ."

Metabolic Mind

"Michelle was chosen to build the freelance network. She is smart, capable and professional and had top leaderboard writer and freelance production stats. Whatever you hire her for content wise you will be lucky to have her."

Marija Vukic, Diply

"Thank you for such thorough and excellent reporting."

Jan Ellison Baszucki

"Michelle is a wonderful editor and team leader. She takes initiative to concur all projects with skill and a degree of professionalism that's hard to come by. She was, by far, one of my best managers I have ever worked for."

Tina Donati, Diply

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The Work
 

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Space to Grow
 

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Ana, Mia & Me
 

Michelle the Author

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My three books came from a need for meaning, voice, and reclamation. The first took shape when I was still a teenager, written with the urgency of someone trying to understand their own life in real time.
But what writing and publishing once gave me — understanding, voice, control — I later needed to rediscover off the page, and in more private ways.
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