I'm Perfectly Divine Podcast
by Michelle Bersell
Welcome strong, sensitive, spiritual seekers. Do you feel you have been doing the emotional work but still feel stuck? Have you been sitting in awareness for years but still don't love all aspects of yourself? You aren't alone, & you are in the right place! As a psychotherapist & priestess, I will guide you through the messiness of life as a pathway to remember your wholeness. It is time to recognize your divinity through your humanity & live the expansive, joyful life you are meant to live. Please Note: Season 1, Episodes 1-29 were under my previous podcast name Emotional Empowerment.
Episodes
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352 Trusting the Gap — The Sacred Pause Before What’s Next
There are moments when life as you knew it has shifted, but what comes next has not yet fully revealed itself. This episode is an invitation into that in-between space: the tender, uncertain gap between releasing what was and reaching for what is calling you forward. Because this is exactly where…
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351 - When Manifesting Stalls: A Sign You're Being Called Deeper
If your once-reliable manifesting practice has suddenly gone quiet, or worse, started stirring up frustration instead of flow, this doesn’t necessarily mean you are doing it wrong. You may simply be standing at the threshold of a realm most teachings never mention. In this week's Alchemical...
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350- Breaking the Human Cage: Freeing the Heart From Fear-Based Perceptions
Our perception shapes our reality, and our hearts shape our perception. Our human journey is a gift meant to help us recognize the ways we've been taught to understand reality ways rooted in fear. This is the way to truly reclaim our innate power and embody this knowingness from within. This…
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349 Love in the Dark: What the Heroine's Journey Asks of You
Darkness, the downward spiral, the sense you are drowning fighting to catch your breath before another huge wave of emotion or challenge hits you, this is the descent journey. And when all we are taught is that we are supposed to keep ascending through life, descending feels like flat out…
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348 The Hero's Journey Myth: Why It Was Never About Gender, But About Power
Does the hero's journey only belong to men, and the heroine's journey to women? This week, I explore this through the lens of alchemy. Because what alchemy does is integrate the spiritual and the psychological, and what arises through this assimilation is a different picture. In this episode, I'm...
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347 Why Your Blocks Are Actually Gateways & The 3 Mistakes That Keep You From Walking Through
Welcome to the first of these Alchemical Illumination Portals — brief, potent transmissions designed to illuminate the places where something in you is ready to shift. In alchemy, nothing is wasted, and nothing is random. What appears as resistance, blockage, or uncertainty may actually be the…
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346 Your Soul's Reset Button: The Wisdom Hidden in Your Rejected Self
There's a lightning-fast way to growth, but wow, does our ego hate this path. It's the opportunity to understand more of who we really are in those cringy moments. The moment you couldn't believe THAT came out of your mouth or you actually did THAT. Quite frankly, it's shocking, even to yourself,...
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345: The Freedom in Thy Will Be Done
As America approaches 250 years of independence, I find myself holding both how recent studies show trust in institutions is at historic lows, national pride is fading, and psychologically the cages we find ourselves struggling with internally. But this shouldn't be a surprise to us because we…
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344: Fifth Way Love: The Spiritual Alchemy of Pleasure, Passion, and the Beloved
There is a level of partnership that goes beyond what we typically think of as soulmates. This is what author Cynthia Bourgeault discusses as Fifth Way Love, and once you understand it, you may never see intimate partnership the same way again. The territory we are entering is intimate…
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343 Sacred Pleasure: Reclaiming Wisdom, Responsibility, and Your Most Expansive Life
The Divine wants to please you. Which is why you have been built for pleasure. Not just from a sensory level, but also with an aspect within you that seeks to fulfill you, bring you joy, and feel pleasurable. But the hard truth is that it is easy for our egos to corrupt our pleasure. It's also…
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342 The Resentful Critic: How to Alchemize the Dynamic That's Draining You (Part 2)
It seems strange, but there are people who are threatened by your existence. Of course, it isn't actually you who is the threat — it's what you represent to them. They believe you have something they cannot have, something you don't deserve, or that you took something from them. And so they…
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341 The Constant Critic: How to Alchemize the Dynamic That's Draining You (Part 1)
Critical people can feel like some of the most draining relationships to navigate. They have a knack for picking at the smallest things, and suddenly you find yourself filled with self-doubt — either shrinking in shame or defensive and angry at being so misunderstood. But what if there's another...
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340 Not All Insights Are Ah-Ha Moments: When Your Go-To Tools Stop Working
Do you ever experience the gap between knowing better and feeling better? Your mind knows exactly what is going on and what needs to happen to shift — yet the very tool you rely on suddenly stops delivering the result you expected. This is exactly what I experienced this week when I felt pressure...
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339: The Sacredness in All You Feel at Different Stages of Your Emotional Evolution
Have you ever wondered why inner work seems never-ending, or why certain feelings keep cycling back no matter what you do? It's likely because you are experiencing your emotions evolving beyond your human understanding to a deeper spiritual recognition that will set you free. What you feel was...
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338: Reclaim Your Inner Authority For The Miracle It Is
There is a miracle that has resided within you from the beginning, which was designed to support you in reclaiming your truth. Simultaneously, there have always been people and systems in place to undermine you from claiming it. So much so that when we actually have the courage to face our truth,...
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337: Unbroken - Reclaiming the Truth of Who You Are Through the Gospel of Mary
There’s a story that has been woven into our society that comes with a deep and horrific cost. This is the story of a woman’s nature and regardless of your gender, this impacts us all. Because the stories we believe about how we are innately created, impacts how we treat ourselves and allow...
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336: The Ego's Subtlest Trick Is the Most Dangerous Kind of Good
What kind of spiritual person wouldn't want to consider themselves good? The concept of "good" is an interesting one, because in our minds, if we aren't good, we must be bad. And spiritual people work very hard not to be bad — at least not intentionally. But here's the thing: when the ego gets...
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335: The Hidden Story — How Power Rewrote What We Were Meant to Know
In this powerful follow-up to Part 1, we go deeper into one of history's most overlooked stories — how power has quietly shaped the spiritual traditions billions of people hold sacred. Through my own faith journey, I came to recognize that what most of us were taught is only part of the picture,...
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334: Spiritual Doesn't Mean Safe — A Wake-Up Call
For a long time, I hid behind something that felt virtuous — the belief that being spiritual meant I didn't have to engage with the chaos of the world around me. In this episode I get honest about the three ways that belief left me genuinely naive, and how the moment I stopped trying to keep…
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333 Ending the Power-Over Paradigm:Confront the Illusion of Winning & Reclaim Your Ground
Power-over dynamics are showing up everywhere right now — in our world, in our personal relationships, and in our workplaces. This is no accident. What we are collectively being invited to see is that what we've long been taught to call "winning" is actually a lose-lose proposition in disguise....
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332 The Egg Cracks Open: Holy Week, Hidden Wisdom & The Death That Sets You Free
The tenderness you may be feeling right now is not accidental — it is a signal of the sacred. As we enter Holy Week, we are being mirrored an ancient truth: that transformation requires a kind of death before new life can emerge. In this episode, we explore resurrection through a lens that…
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331: Broken Open - Honoring the Alchemy of Your Rebirth
If you have been feeling all the feels lately, not only are you not alone — you have been in the midst of an inner alchemy that has been preparing you for your own rebirth. Spring has arrived, and with it an invitation not just to celebrate what is being born, but to honor the profound courage it...
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330 The Sacred Mirror of Symbols: Access the Answers Already Within You, with Dina Berrin
Everyday objects, when approached with intention, can become portals to the answers you seek — and the gift is that those answers already live within you. My guest, Dina Berrin, draws on her training in tarot, numerology, palm reading, and life coaching to guide us in accessing our innate wisdom...
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329 My Ego Called Me "Useless." My Soul Said Follow Me
Many of us are in a space where we are being forged through challenge to remember the truth, love, and power that we are — and that ain't easy, is it?! But here's what I've found: there is a freedom that awaits us on the other side of the very things our ego most wants us to hide. That freedom...
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328 Feminine Way-Showers: Reclaim the Power You've Been Told Is Too Much
Women have always been the ones willing to go into the mess — and that willingness is where real power lives. Our ability to sense when something is off is what allows us to create shifts before everything falls apart. Yet this gift is rarely honored. Instead, we've shrunk ourselves with the…
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327: Ego, Magic & the Mess in Between - Being Loved As You Are, Not As Your Ego Thinks You Should Be
If your spiritual and personal growth journey has ever left you feeling like you should be further along by now — or somehow more "together" — this episode will meet you exactly where you are, and celebrate you as you are. Because here's what I've come to believe: the mess is not a detour from…
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326: Walking the Way of Compassion Imperfectly -From Trauma Triangle to Unity Consciousness
It is the seemingly insignificant moments—the ones that on the surface aren't that big of a deal—that our emotions guide us to deepen. Not to pick on us, but ultimately to elevate us. That's where society has gotten both our humanity and our feelings all wrong. When spirituality teaches us that…
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325: Beyond the Fairy Tale - How to Build Relationships That Transform
The measure of any relationship—whether with a partner or with our collective humanity—isn't the absence of challenges but how we move through them toward greater love. We're being called to recognize our power to co-create by addressing what needs to change while holding our vision for what love...
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Episode 324: From Scattered to Centered - How to Align Your Energy During Trying Times
When life feels like it's pulling you in every direction — from family health crises to a world that seems to be spinning out of control — it's easy to let fear take the wheel. This is exactly when it's time to practice finding our center. Fear does exactly what it's designed to do: pull us away...
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323: The Psychology of Conscious Opposition - Being the Bridge that Unites
We are experiencing BIG, unprecedented, and unpredictable energy right now, which is why so many feel angry, afraid, sad, and frustrated. As we recognize our emotions as energetic allies rather than enemies, we're being called to fundamentally transform the way we show up around what we…
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322 Claim the Change You Came Here to Be
Everything you've been working through internally—the patterns you've dismantled, the fears you've faced, the moments no one else could witness—has been preparing you for something much bigger than personal healing alone. This week's episode explores why your inner refinement has been building…
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321: The Power of Permitting Yourself NOT to be You
Spiritually and physically, being in the depths of winter means going inward and tending to the seeds that will burst forth come spring. While this all sounds good and nice, what it actually feels like on the human level is being bone tired, unmotivated, and just not yourself. Recently, this…
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320 The Power of Selective Momentum: Move Forward Consciously and Stop Spinning Your Wheels
We're in that peculiar space where everyone expects us to be back in full force, and you feel a restless energy wanting to break free. If you're experiencing agitation like you're about to burst—it’s because a new version of you wants to be set free. Before you do, however, you will want to honor...
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319: Dream the Impossible Dream by Dreaming Beyond Who You Once Were
The light has returned, and with it comes a profound invitation: to dream beyond the limitations of who you once were. After the deep courage required to navigate the darkness, you now stand at the threshold of celebration and possibility. The impossible dream isn't impossible at all. It is,...
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318 Silent Night's Secret:Why the Light Needed Her
What if the most essential part of the Christmas story—the part that holds the key to your own transformation—has been hiding in plain sight all along? This episode explores why silence isn't just peaceful, it's holy, and how the winter solstice reminds us that after the peak of darkness, light...
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317: The Hidden Space of Your Potential
What happens in that liminal space between releasing who you once were and stepping into who you're becoming? This episode explores the often-overlooked period of transformation—the fertile darkness where new versions of ourselves gestate before emerging into the light. Do you feel the…
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316 Knowing in Your Bones: The Path to Embodiment
We've all been there—standing in the midst of loss, change, or psychological upheaval, asking "what's the point?" This time of year engaged from a divine feminine approach calls us into a profound death cycle—not of body, but of identity. This cycle isn't meant to destroy you; it's designed to…
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315 The Sacred Art of Release: How to Truly Let Go of What No Longer Serves You
Are you someone who feels like no matter what you’ve tried, you somehow keep creating the same patterns over and over again? Trust me, this isn’t your fault. You’ve been shown how to set intentions, create vision boards, and declare what you want to manifest in the new year—but there’s a crucial...
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314 Gratitude in the Unexpected: Finding Breadcrumbs When Life Isn't Going as Planned
When life delivers the opposite of what you've been praying for, how do you find gratitude in the rubble? This episode explores what it really means to trust the universe when everything feels like it's falling apart. You'll discover that even in your most challenging moments, there are…
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313 Soul Mates and Divine Union Explained: Why Your Emotions Are the Compass to Your Ideal Relationship
The inner emotional work you do isn't just self-improvement—it's the most valuable gift you can give yourself because it shapes your entire energy field and your capacity to hold all of life with greater love. Today, we're weaving together everything about emotional alchemy, the heroine's…
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312 My Experiment Addressing Guilt with AI: Soothing vs Transformation
I had one of those an “Am I the Asshole” moments that I’ve heard about and quickly became curious about how AI (artificial intelligence) would address my guilt. So I poured my heart out to the cloud and found some surprising benefits, as well as limitations. Join me in this episode as I share the...
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311 The Hidden Truth: Why Your Emotions Won't Go Away
This is one of the most important podcast episodes I've done, because this is exactly where so many people get confused and struggle. You've been told "you are not your emotions" and to override them with heart energy and love. While that's beautiful and works while you are in a meditative state,...
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310: The Secret Sauce to Your Specialness - Remembering Your Gifts When You Forget
In our hearts, we all desire to be truly seen for the love that we innately are. The problem is we often find ourselves trapped in a painful paradox—believing we're not evolved enough, aligned enough, or simply enough to share who we really are. This episode explores the common road we find...
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Episode 309 Worthy of Overflow: Dropping Your Shields to Give More
What if the very independence you've cultivated to protect yourself is actually blocking you from receiving more of life's blessings? This week the Divine continues to nudge me to see where I may be unintentionally blocking my ability to receive through the surprising shield of empowerment! I…
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308 Why Spiritual People Struggle to Receive Their Desires- The Jealousy Paradox
You are spiritually-minded, conscientious, and by all means a pretty damn good person. So how on Earth is it that you, of all people, may be more likely to struggle to receive your desires? Well, it is often the well-meaning, but outdated ways we’ve been made to believe what makes us “good.” I...
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307: Feeling Numb? The Anesthesia of Awakening
What if the numbness you're feeling isn't a sign that something's wrong with you, but rather evidence that you are entering a new phase of life? In this deeply vulnerable episode, we explore a part of the human journey that rarely gets discussed—that uncomfortable space where you feel stuck…
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306: How to Face Ego Backlash and Honor the Unknown
What happens after you finally do the brave thing? Here’s a normal part of the human messiness we don't talk about enough: the anxiety that can show up after you've already taken the courageous step. My last two podcasts on a Priestess and a Pastor brought up what I call "ego backlash"—that...
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305: A Priestess & A Pastor - Part 2 Finding Common Sacred Ground
In today’s episode, I’m sharing what deepening my relationship with the Divine has really looked like — and why I’m grateful for every twist and turn along the way. While I loved church as a child and always felt spiritually connected, there have been many turning points that challenged…
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304 Bonus Episode on Un-Bracing
This is a super quick bonus episode in keeping true to sharing with you the raw aspects of my life. I'm sharing my journey from unknowingly bracing my heart against life's impact, to experiencing the powerful transformation of having my heart broken open—more fully and beautifully—through the…
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303 A Pastor & A Priestess: Finding Common Sacred Ground
If you ever struggle with the faith that you were raised in, felt like you didn’t belong, or spiritually homeless, this episode is for you. In this episode of I’m Perfectly Divine, I am interviewing the pastor of Ozaukee Congregational Church, Jeff Larson. This is the church my family belonged to...
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Welcome strong, sensitive, spiritual seekers. Do you feel you have been doing the emotional work but still feel stuck? Have you been sitting in awareness for years but still don't love all aspects of yourself? You aren't alone, & you are in the right place! As a psychotherapist & priestess, I will guide you through the messiness of life as a pathway to remember your wholeness. It is time to recognize your divinity through your humanity & live the expansive, joyful life you are meant to live. Please Note: Season 1, Episodes 1-29 were under my previous podcast name Emotional Empowerment.
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