A Year in Review: Mental Health, Healing, and Hope

About this episode

In this special year-in-review episode, Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas reflects on a year of global travel, impact, and learning in mental health and healing.

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

Topics covered

• mental health
• healing
• hope
• workplace mental health
• suicide prevention
• clinical training
• lived-experience storytelling
• burnout
• aging
• grief
• purpose

Keywords

• impact metrics
• tools developed
• global conferences
• leadership lessons
• partnerships
• personal reflections

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Headspace for the Workplace

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