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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

Di: 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 Igiene e vita sana Psicologia Psicologia e salute mentale
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  • 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
    Oct 21 2026
    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 min
  • The Addiction No One Saw: Gambling, Suicide Risk, and Finding a Way Back with Saul Malek

    The Addiction No One Saw: Gambling, Suicide Risk, and Finding a Way Back with Saul Malek
    Oct 14 2026
    I have seen gambling addiction up close in my own family, and I know how hidden, how isolating, and how dangerous it can become. That is exactly why I was so grateful when our mutual friend Cal Beyer introduced me to Saul Malek. Saul is a nationally recognized gambling-harm prevention speaker and a young man in long-term recovery - more than five years abstinent from gambling - who now devotes his full-time professional life to educating young people, schools, behavioral health organizations, and communities about what gambling addiction actually looks like from the inside.What Saul has lived through is not a story about bad luck or poor impulse control. It is a story about a kind of addiction that hides beautifully behind sports fandom, financial ambition, intelligence, and an outwardly normal college life. It is a story about how secrecy and shame can spiral into suicidal despair. And it is a story about how recovery becomes possible when the truth finally has somewhere safe to land.In this episode, we go through his full journey - from fantasy baseball at age 11, to sports betting in college, to the escalation that consumed his finances, his relationships, and nearly his life. We talk about what the science is now telling us about gambling and suicide risk, about the explosion of online sports betting, and about what recovery actually requires beyond just "stopping." We talk about Gamblers Anonymous, about the families who are harmed alongside the person gambling, and about what clinicians, pediatricians, schools, and communities can do differently starting now.Gambling has been called the next opioid epidemic in America. After this conversation, I think you will understand why - and what we can do about it. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/171
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    1 ora e 7 min
  • Zero Overdose: Why Overdose Safety Planning Needs to Become the Standard of Care with Dr. Virna Little

    Zero Overdose: Why Overdose Safety Planning Needs to Become the Standard of Care with Dr. Virna Little
    Oct 8 2026
    When I think about the parallels between suicide prevention and overdose prevention, nobody articulates them better than my guest in this episode. I first met Dr. Virna Little at the IASP Asia Pacific conference in Tokyo -- we were both there as Zero Suicide faculty -- and her work immediately struck me as something every mental health and substance use professional needs to hear about.Virna is the co-founder and CEO of Zero Overdose, a national nonprofit bringing the same rigorous, system-wide thinking we apply to suicide prevention directly into overdose prevention. She is also co-founder of Concert Health, a behavioral health medical group delivering Collaborative Care across 21 states. Her credentials span a doctorate in psychology and a master's in social work, and she has presented on suicide prevention at the White House.In this conversation, we talk about what it actually means to build an overdose safety plan -- not just hand someone a Narcan kit and send them home, but sit with them, understand their specific risks, identify their trusted people, and create a living document they can return to. We discuss the populations at highest risk (including people leaving incarceration, new mothers, and workers in trades like construction), the critical importance of EHR integration, and what it looks like when first responders in Massachusetts started using overdose safety planning in the field.If you work in healthcare, behavioral health, public health, or policy -- this episode will change how you think about overdose prevention. For more information about this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/170
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    37 min
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