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Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Nzinga Harrison's groundbreaking approach to treating addictionNzinga Harrison, MD, is a board-certified physician with specialties in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She is also the Chief Medical Officer and cofounder of Eleanor Health, an innovative mental health and addiction treatment company. Dr. Harrison holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine and sits on the Practice Management and Regulatory Affairs Committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has written a brilliant book called Un-Addiction that walks through 6 mind-changing conversations about addiction and recovery that could save a life.My top takeaways from this conversation and Dr Harrison's...2025-05-2245 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BPooja Mehta on mental illness advocacy as a South Asian American womanPooja Mehta serves with me on the National Board of Directors at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She’s been a powerful mental health advocate since she was 19 and lives with anxiety with auditory hallucinations, depression, and lost her brother Raj to suicide in 2020. Hear from her on:- How she centers being a South Asian woman in her advocacy - What current suicide prevention efforts miss - An annual tradition in honor of her brother, Raj, to foster kindness and connectedness - How to craft...2024-07-3132 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BAshanti Branch on redefining healthy masculinityAshanti Branch has over 20 years of experience in building healthy relationships in schools — he’s a pioneer in reforming education, youth mental health, and traditional masculinity. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ever Forward Club, a non-profit organization that takes students who are disengaged and dropping out to 100% graduation rates, 90% college enrollment, and 0% incarceration, using tools like the Taking Off the Mask workshop. Ashanti received the 2023 US Surgeon General’s Medallion (the highest honor a civilian can receive from the Surgeon General). Trigger warning: In this episode, we talk about system...2024-05-2444 min

Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.Changing Lives Through Understanding: Sara Schley on Living with Bipolar DisorderWatch the show on television by downloading the e360tv channel app to your Roku, AppleTV or AmazonFireTV. You can also see it on YouTube.When you purchase an item, launch a campaign or invest after clicking a link here, we may earn a commission. Engage to support our work.Devin: What is your superpower?Sara: I tend to just bless the heck out of people because it's genuine that I love them.For today’s episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Sara Schley, a passionate author an...2024-05-0725 min

EmotionAL Support with Alessandra TorresaniInnovating Health: Conversations with Dr. Devika BhushanStep into the world of health innovation, resilience, and equity with Dr. Devika Bhushan, MD, as she shares her expertise and experiences as a pediatrician and public health leader. As California's former Acting Surgeon General and Chief Health Officer, Dr. Bhushan has been at the forefront of driving policy and practice innovation, particularly through initiatives like ACEs Aware, focused on healing childhood trauma. In this episode, Dr. Bhushan invites listeners on a journey to explore trauma-informed systems, stress and resilience, mental health, and gender and health equity. Drawing from her training at Harvard and Johns H...2024-04-3056 min

Compassion In ActionDevika Bhushan Interview Join CPP Founder Fritzi Horstman and guests as they discuss the objectives and approaches involved in bringing trauma awareness and compassionate healing to the forefront of public conversation. https://youtu.be/dD5tTuQ85CE Devika Bhushan, MD, is a pediatrician and public health leader on a mission to drive health innovation, resilience, and equity. As California’s Acting Surgeon General (2022) and its inaugural Chief Health Officer (2019-2022), Dr. Bhushan was a key public health advisor to the California Governor. In these roles, she led policy and practice innovation at a...2024-04-291h 01

Spread the light with Dr Devika BCorey Feist, Dr Mona Masood, Janae Sharp on health worker well-beingThis month, in honor of the newly named Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18th, commemorating the day the President signed the Lorna Breen Act into law in 2022, I’m thrilled to feature conversations with three brilliant national leaders who are transforming health worker well-being:Corey Feist, JD, MBA, CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, founded in 2020 to address the systemic drivers of health worker ill health and honoring Dr Lorna Breen, a frontline emergency room doctor and Corey’s sister-in-law, who died by suicide. The work of the Foundation was recognized by t...2024-03-2756 min

Mental Illness Happy Hour#685 Bipolar & Stigma - Dr Devika BhushanDr. Devika Bhushan is a pediatrician and the former acting Surgeon General of California. She is also someone who lives with Bipolar Disorder. She opens up about her personal journey to finding a diagnosis and how she’s on a professional and personal mission to fight the stigma associated with mental health struggles. This episode is sponsored by Cerebral. For a prescriber, therapist, or both go to www.Cerebral.com/podcast and use offer code MENTAL for 15% off.More about (or recommended by) Dr. Bhushanhttps://www.latimes...2024-03-011h 43

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Jessi Gold on optimizing well-beingI loved this awesome conversation on optimizing well-being with my friend, Dr Jessi Gold. She is now the first Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee System, though this was recorded before that — and a psychiatrist with expertise in mental health for college students, healthcare workers, and in the entertainment industry. She shares wisdom on what it looks like to optimize well-being at a workplace, how to be prevention-oriented, and some insights on stigma she didn’t realize she carried from her own mental health journey.Jessi Gold, MD, is the first Chief Wellness Officer for the...2024-02-2845 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Crystal Clark and Dr Nancy Byatt on the hidden costs of breastfeedingWelcome to Season 2 of Spread the light with Dr Devika B. Here, we know that stigma festers in the dark and it scatters in the light. And this season will take that even further. We’ll dive into the ways that stigma shows up in culture, in norms, in policies, and in institutions — and how we can disrupt and rewrite that.To kick us off: In this powerful interview with perinatal psychiatrists Dr Nancy Byatt and Dr Crystal Clark, hear about what breastfeeding guidelines miss about the potential mental health risks for new mothers and families. Read more...2024-02-0129 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BAmy Brinkley’s journey with substance use disorder and mental illnessThis episode features Amy Brinkley’s incredible journey — and how she uses her personal experiences with substance use and mental illness recovery to drive national change and support others to sustain recovery, especially after incarceration. Amy Brinkley is a nationally recognized leader in mental health and substance use recovery. Motivated by personal recovery experience and the suicides of three brothers and her mother’s overdose, Amy is dedicated to driving change through effective peer support and recovery-oriented systems of care.Amy serves as the Recovery Support Services Coordinator for the National Association of State Mental Health...2023-11-3036 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BLara Burmeister's journey with depressionLara Burmeister, MBA, is a first-generation German-American who has spent most of her career working in roles to combat climate change. She lives with depression.Hear about what Lara challenged herself to do to get through her darkest moments, her well-time and red flag toolkits, how depression changed her, and how she rebuilt her identity in its wake.Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about passive suicidal ideation and depression.—SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: Because stigma festers in the dark and scatters in the light.2023-10-3145 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Ade Osinubi's journey with hopelessness in medicineDr Ade Osinubi is a resident physician in emergency medicine, a documentary filmmaker, and photographer whose work focuses on telling the untold stories of minority populations. She recently created the documentary Black Motherhood Through the Lens, about four Black women's experiences with reproductive health in the US, recognized in Forbes and PBS. She has written for the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and Glamour magazine on topics related to health equity. She received the 2022 National Minority Equality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health Award and the 2023 Black Health Connect 40 Under 40 Award.This conversation with Dr Osinubi touched on her...2023-10-2627 min

Beyond the PrescriptionFinding Hope & Light within DarknessYou can also listen to this episode on Spotify! is a pediatrician and public health leader who has lived with bipolar disorder for the last 13 years. She has served on Stanford’s faculty and trained at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins. She's a firm believer that life’s trials and tribulations not only improve our self-awareness, they help us flourish. While serving as California’s Acting Surgeon General last year, Dr. Bhushan publicly revealed her diagnosis in an effort to reduce stigma and spread hope for people suffering with mental illness:I believ...2023-10-1643 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Justin Bullock's journey with suicidality and depression in medicineJustin Bullock, MD, MPH, is a fellow in Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr Bullock is a passionate medical educator and an identity safety researcher. He is outspoken about his lived experience as a gay, Black, bipolar physician. Dr Bullock's work and story have been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, Vox, and Forbes, among other places.This conversation was poignant — covering Justin’s journey from deep stigma to self-acceptance and radical openness around his story; his advice for preserving agency during psychiatric hospitalizations; and his take on physician monitoring programs....2023-09-2635 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Jake Goodman's journey with anxiety and depression in medicineDr Jake Goodman is a psychiatry resident physician and global mental health activist with more than 2.1 million followers on social media. He is a two-time TEDx Speaker, member of the University of Georgia Alumni Association's 40 under 40, and a participant in the Healthcare Leaders in Social Media Roundtable Series for the White House. Dr Jake uses his platform to fight stigma and discrimination, and to empower those experiencing mental health challenges to seek help. His advocacy work has been featured in Good Morning America, Men’s Health, Yahoo News and more. In 2023, he was named 1 of 60 top influencers by Men’s He...2023-08-2941 min

Hope Starts With UsStigma & Mental Health Equity – Episode 27In this episode of NAMI’s podcast, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr. talks with Dr. Devika Bhushan, Dr. Napoleon Higgins and Angelina Hudson about stigma and mental health equity.=================Additional show notes:Dr Bhushan leads a transformative well-being community via a newsletter and storytelling platform called Spread the light with Dr Devika B that helps dispel stigma and stereotypes, and instead, spreads hope and light (written version, video version and audio version, or wherever you get podcasts).You can find additional episodes of this NAMI podcast and others at nami.or...2023-08-0953 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BDr Ahmed Hankir's journey with melancholia and elation in medicineDr Ahmed Hankir is a Lebanese-British-Irish psychiatrist with expertise by lived experience. He serves as the Lead for Public Engagement and Education at the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, UK. Dr Hankir is passionate about empowering and dignifying people living with mental health conditions and is the creator of the mental health-focused performing arts piece, The Wounded Healer.Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about war, suicidality, depression, witnessing violence and homicide, racism, Islamophobia, and classism.—SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR...2023-07-3138 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BGeo Custodio’s journey as a non-binary transfemme personGeo Custodio is a creative strategist, using both left and right brain thinking to help brands and corporations define their values and to build community. She has worked in tech, fashion, publishing and is currently a communications consultant in retail. She loves to paint, draw, and write. In her spare time, Geo is also Mom to seven dogs and two cats. Her gender identities are non-binary and transfemme — she is a proud transgendered person (pronouns: she/her, they/them). Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about suicidality, depression, and sexual fetishizing of transgendered people.2023-06-2727 min

Psychiatry Unboxed with TheKicksShrinkInterview 20: Beyond Labels: Life as a Physician with Bipolar Disorder, with Dr. Devika Bhushan, MDIn this enlightening and deeply personal episode, Dr. Mirza talks with Dr. Devika Bhushan, MD, a pediatrician, public health leader, and recent addition to the NAMI board of directors. Dr. Bhushan wears many hats - from being an Acting Surgeon General for California, an Indian-American immigrant, and a parent, to living with bipolar disorder.Join us as we break down the stigmas and myths associated with bipolar disorder, exploring it not just from a clinical perspective, but through the lived experiences of someone who balances her professional responsibilities with her personal challenges. Dr. Bhushan shares the intersectionality of her identity...2023-06-2251 min

Spread the light with Dr Devika BAndy Dunn's journey with bipolar I disorderAndy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author (of his memoir, Burn Rate), investor, and father. He co-founded the men's wear brand Bonobos and recently released his TED talk, Lessons from losing my mind: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_dunn_lessons_from_losing_my_mind/c?language=en Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about suicidality, depression, psychosis, hypomania, and mania.SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: First-person accounts of living with mental illness that aim to dispel stigma and stereotypes and instead, spread hope and light.Because stigma festers in th...2023-05-3147 min