A simple text - no agenda, no questions, just "thinking of you" - can be the lifeline someone never knew they needed. I speak with suicide attempt survivor Brandon Wilcox to break down the science and humanity of caring contacts, and why showing up imperfectly is always better than not showing up at all.
One training isn't enough to change mental health culture. You need a tipping point. Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas and workplace wellness expert Laura Putnam reveal how "well-being multipliers", empowered team leaders, create ripple effects that transform organizations from the middle out, team by team, person by person.
After losing her father to suicide, Julia Hassell set out to understand a question many of us quietly carry: why do some wounds never fully heal?
What she discovered changed everything.
In this conversation, Julia shares how trauma lives in the body, not just the mind, and why traditional approaches like talk therapy can sometimes leave people feeling stuck. She introduces brainspotting, a powerful, body-based method that helps process trauma beyond words, and explores how healing often requires integrating neuroscience, somatic work, and spirituality.
Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners
A simple text - no agenda, no questions, just "thinking of you" - can be the lifeline someone never knew they needed. I speak with suicide attempt survivor Brandon Wilcox to break down the science and humanity of caring contacts, and why showing up imperfectly is always better than not showing up at all.
Critical suicidology is an emerging area of scholarship and advocacy that brings together expertise from diverse perspectives to re-examine all that we have believed to be “true” about suicide prevention. Critical suicidologists question the highly medicalized framework of understanding a suicidal person and see suicide in context by understanding how other frameworks — like social justice — expand our imagination on what is possible in prevention, intervention and postvention.
In this conversation with Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, we talk about the ways traditional efforts in suicide prevention have failed us including:
Forced treatment
Fear-based approaches of restraint and isolation
Trying to predict suicide risk
And instead explore alternative, creative and upstream approaches to suicide prevention such as transformative justice work, mutual aid peer support, and accountability in making reparations for histories of harm done to communities.
