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Mariah Sheridan Runions: When Loving Someone Isn’t Enough to Save Them

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Mariah Sheridan Runions grew up surrounded by mental illness and later found herself trying to keep someone she loved alive. After losing him to suicide, she carried guilt for years. Mariah shares what she now understands about responsibility, suicidal thoughts, choosing yourself, self-love and why taking care of yourself isn’t selfish.

Dr. Calvin Spinks: When Being Needed Becomes Your Identity

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Dr. Calvin Spinks shares how childhood rejection, racism, instability, and anxious attachment shaped his need to help, fix, and carry everyone around him. In this honest conversation, he explores people pleasing, boundaries, self-worth, unhealthy coping, and what it took to stop being the tugboat—and become the lighthouse.

Rebecca Lazzelle: Functioning Is Not the Same as Being Okay

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Camille Ellis: Don’t Forget What You Had

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After losing her son Wes to suicide, Camille Ellis discovered one simple shift in perspective that changed everything: don’t become so focused on what you lost that you forget what you had. In this heartfelt conversation, she shares how that realization helped her carry love forward, embrace healing, and rediscover joy without leaving her son behind.

Jodi Gardner: Growing Older Doesn’t Mean Growing Invisible

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Growing older doesn’t mean growing invisible.

In this episode of Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health, Kelly Poelker sits down with Jodi Gardner, Executive Director of the St. Clair County Mental Health Board, for a heartfelt conversation about older adult mental health, caregiving, isolation, purpose, and suicide prevention. Together they explore why every person deserves to feel seen, heard, and valued at every stage of life, and how meaningful conversations can strengthen families, support caregivers, and remind older adults that their stories—and their lives—still matter.

Richard Lynch: When the Helper Becomes the One Who Needs Help

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Licensed counselor Richard Lynch shares how losing his father to suicide led to PTSD, addiction, prison, faith, and ultimately a new understanding of healing, grief, and men’s mental health.

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