Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health

What do car shows, glow volleyball tournaments, baseball games and sensory kits in grade schools have to do with suicide prevention? For Glow For Hope, they have everything to do with it. In this solo episode of *Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health*, founder Kelly Poelker explains why she believes suicide prevention needs to begin long before someone reaches a crisis point. When we hear "suicide prevention," we often think about crisis intervention. And while recognizing war

We've all said it. **"Call me if you need anything."** And we mean it. But what if the person who's struggling doesn't have the energy to call? What if they don't know what they need? Or they're afraid of being a burden? In this solo episode of *Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health*, founder Kelly Poelker explores why meaningful support sometimes requires us to stop waiting for someone to ask. And there's another important question: **What happens when someone actually tel

⚠️ CONTENT ADVISORY This episode includes candid discussion of grief, depression, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. For 16 years, Dave Raymond's job was to make people happy as the original Phillie Phanatic. But behind the costume, Dave would eventually face grief, the collapse of his marriage and a period of hopelessness when he began experiencing suicidal thoughts. Then something unexpected happened. He put the Phanatic costume on for an appearance—and the character he had spent years u

# Mariah Sheridan Runions: When Loving Someone Isn’t Enough to Save Them Growing up surrounded by mental illness taught Mariah Sheridan Runions how to survive, adapt and take care of other people. It took much longer to learn that loving someone does not make you responsible for saving them — and that choosing yourself is not something you need to feel guilty for. **Guest:** Mariah Sheridan Runions **Host:** Kelly Poelker **Podcast:** Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health **

What happens when being needed becomes the way you prove you are worthy of love? Dr. Calvin Spinks spent much of his life believing that if he could make himself valuable enough, helpful enough, and useful enough, people would keep him in their lives. In this deeply personal conversation with host Kelly Poelker, Dr. Cal shares how childhood rejection, racism, instability, and questions of identity and belonging contributed to people pleasing, anxious attachment, over-responsibility, and a need

A person can appear successful, dependable, and completely in control while privately carrying more than anyone around them realizes. They can continue working, solving problems, caring for other people, and meeting every expectation while their mental health quietly deteriorates beneath the surface. Rebecca Lazzelle understands that divide from lived experience. A lifelong overachiever and former corporate process improvement director, Rebecca built much of her identity around achievement, r