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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

著者： 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 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Attention Management - Why "Do I Have Time for That?" Is the Wrong Question with Abby Medcalf

    Attention Management - Why "Do I Have Time for That?" Is the Wrong Question with Abby Medcalf
    2026/11/09
    You know that feeling. You have answered 47 emails, bounced from meeting to meeting, put out fires, and crossed a dozen things off your list. And yet, at the end of the day, you are exhausted and wondering: what did I actually accomplish? And more importantly, did I give any energy to the things and the people who matter most?My guest today, Dr. Abby Medcalf, has a reframe for burnout that stopped me in my tracks the moment I heard her keynote at the Employee Assistance Professionals Conference in San Francisco. She says we have been asking ourselves the wrong question. Instead of asking "Do I have time for that?" we need to start asking "Do I have the mind for that?" Because it is our attention -- not just our time -- that is one of our most precious resources. And when we are constantly giving it away, there is not much left for creativity, connection, or the things that give our lives meaning.Dr. Abby Medcalf is a straight-talking psychologist, number one Amazon bestselling author, speaker, and host of two top-rated podcasts -- Relationships Made Easy and Workplace Therapy with Dr. Abby Medcalf -- heard in over 190 countries. With over 35 years of experience and a background in both counseling psychology and organizational psychology, she brings the science to life in a way that is immediately useful.In this episode, Abby and I talk about the science of attention, why willpower is an exhaustible resource, the critical difference between rest and real recovery, and the specific habits that actually rebuild your mental bandwidth. This conversation is as much about reclaiming your life as it is about preventing burnout. I took so many notes. I think you will too. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/174
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    42 分
  • The Wounded Healer: Why Clinician Healing Is an Ethical Imperative with Sarah Buino

    The Wounded Healer: Why Clinician Healing Is an Ethical Imperative with Sarah Buino
    2026/10/28
    There is something we do not say out loud nearly enough in the mental health field: we ask clinicians to sit beside trauma, addiction, suicide, and despair and then train them as though they should be unaffected by it. We tell ourselves we have it together. We have the knowledge, the frameworks, the coping strategies. It is, as I have come to see it, a big fat lie we tell ourselves as a field and one that has real consequences for the people we serve.Sarah Buino has built her career around naming this openly. She grew up in an alcoholic family system, experienced chronic suicidal ideation from a young age, and entered the mental health field -- as so many of us do -- partly to understand her own story. She went on to become a licensed clinical social worker, built and sold a successful group practice, won recognition for her writing on the wounded healer concept, hosts the podcast Conversations with a Wounded Healer, and is now writing a book on the topic for NASW Press.In this episode, Sarah and I go into the real conversation -- the one the training programs are not having. What does it mean to be a wounded healer versus an impaired professional? What happens when a clinician hits a personal crisis mid-career and has nowhere safe to turn? Why do we keep applying individual solutions to what are fundamentally systemic problems? And what would it look like if graduate programs treated clinicians' own healing work as foundational to the training -- not optional, not shameful, but expected?Sarah's mic drop moment at the end of this episode is one I have been thinking about ever since: "If you feel a barrier to doing your own work, that is a signal to do the work." If you work in mental health, counseling, social work, psychology, or any helping profession, this episode is for you. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/173
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    40 分
  • Beyond Recovery: What Mental Health Can Learn from the Disability Rights Movement with Dr. Mark Salzer

    Beyond Recovery: What Mental Health Can Learn from the Disability Rights Movement with Dr. Mark Salzer
    2026/10/21
    I first heard about Mark Salzer from a cluster of colleagues I deeply trust. We were all at a conference in Vermont, and more than one person pulled me aside and said, "You have to go listen to him -- he's got it going on." They were absolutely right. I left that presentation with my mind buzzing, and I immediately thought: I have to bring him to Hope Illuminated.Mark is a psychologist and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He comes from a family steeped in mental health -- his mother was a psychiatric nurse, his brother is a psychologist, and his grandfather was actually co-credited with coining the term "antidepressant." But what drives Mark is not legacy. It is social justice. He believes that people who experience significant mental health challenges are among the most disenfranchised, stigmatized, and discriminated against people in our society -- and that much of the mental health system, despite good intentions, perpetuates that problem.In this episode, we dig into the concept of recovery and why Mark -- who calls himself a "recovery baby," shaped by the movement from its earliest days -- has grown concerned that the term has gone off the rails. We explore what the disability rights movement figured out long before mental health did: that inclusion, participation, and the opportunity to live a full life in community are not the rewards of getting better. They are the measure of getting better.This is one of those conversations that will change how you think about your work -- whether you are a provider, a researcher, an advocate, or someone navigating your own mental health journey. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/172
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    46 分
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