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Hope Illuminated Podcast: Helping the Helpers Bring Light to Life’s Darkest Moments

Hope Illuminated Podcast: Helping the Helpers Bring Light to Life’s Darkest Moments

Auteur(s): Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas
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Welcome to the Hope Illuminated Podcast, your source for the stories, science and strategy of suicide prevention, mental health promotion and resilience where we live, learn, and work. I’m your host, Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, and I am on a life mission to empower communities with solutions that help people overcome isolation and despair and rekindle a passion for living. Each episode we’re joined by international experts who inspire hope and offer real guidance. Welcome to the show! I am so grateful you are here.Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas Hygiène et mode de vie sain Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale
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    Jan 6 2026
    When a suicide, overdose, or traumatic death happens in the workplace, the response in the first 48 hours can either stabilize the organization or unintentionally increase harm.Yet most workplaces have no clear postvention plan.In this Headspace for the Workplace conversation, Dr. John Gaal brings together lived experience, labor leadership, and research to explain why postvention is the missing leg of the three-legged stool of workplace mental health: prevention, intervention, and postvention.Drawing from decades of workforce development, construction industry data, and peer-reviewed research, this episode explores:
    • What actually helps people in shock
    • Why EAPs are often underutilized in crisis
    • How trained peer supporters serve as “mental health first responders.”
    • Why partnerships — not silos — save lives

    We talk about what leaders must do when the unthinkable happens.
    For more informationm on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/headspace/84
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  • A Year in Review: Mental Health, Healing, and Hope
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    In this special year-in-review episode, I reflect on a year of global travel, impact, and learning across workplace mental health, suicide prevention, clinical training, and lived-experience storytelling. Recorded for both Headspace for the Workplace and Hope Illuminated, this episode weaves together impact metrics, tools developed, global conferences, leadership lessons, partnerships, and deeply personal reflections on burnout, aging, grief, purpose, and hope. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/158
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    19 min
  • When the Hits Don’t Heal: Athletes, CTE, & Suicide Risk with Dr. John Gaal
    Dec 16 2025
    We tell athletes to “shake it off,” “tough it out,” and “get back in the game.”
    But what happens when the injury is inside the brain, quiet, cumulative, and deadly?In this episode of Hope Illuminated, Dr. John Gaal shares the devastating story of losing his 24-year-old son to suicide and the painful discovery afterward that his son’s brain showed hallmark signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).That grief became a catalyst for John’s work at the intersection of repetitive head trauma, depression, pain, opioids, identity loss, and suicide risk, especially among athletes.This conversation brings together heart and science to ask a question our culture often avoids:How many deaths are we calling “mental health problems” when they may also involve brain injuries we never diagnosed? For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/157
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    55 min
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