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GoHealth Podcast

By: Guild of Health and St Raphael
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  • Summary

  • How have you experienced healing in your life? What does healing mean to you? Where do you find healing? How do we talk about healing having lived through a global pandemic? What do we mean by Christian healing? The GoHealth Podcast explores these questions and more through the stories of lived experiences, generously shared. Gillian Straine, director of GoHealth, guides us through deep conversations about personal experiences of the many understandings of healing.
    Guild of Health and St Raphael
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Episodes
  • S5 Ep4: Healing Histories - Genetics

    S5 Ep4: Healing Histories - Genetics
    Jun 5 2024
    Gillian and Associate Professor Mark Roberts tackle big questions, including the nature vs nurture? Mark shares insights from research into bananas and microbes, and much more, to make this a hopeful and fascinating episode where they explore:

    • What genes are and how they influence who we are.
    • The discovery of genes and history of genetic study
    • Genes being like an on-off switch in simple terms.
    • Genes, illness and disease.
    • Genes help us survive in our context.
    • What Mark wants us all to know about genetics.
    • How the tiniest detail can tell us about how the world works.
    Links:
    The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
    Get your GoHealth journal here.
    Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
    Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
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    32 mins
  • S5 Ep3: Healing Histories - Psychotherapy

    S5 Ep3: Healing Histories - Psychotherapy
    May 22 2024
    Be inspired by a conversation exploring the healing power of psychotherapy and where it sits within Christian spirituality.

    In this second episode of the Healing Histories series we share a conversation with Susanne Hyde, Director of the St Marylebone HCC.

    In their conversation, Gillian and Susanne cover the following topics:

    • What is psychotherapy?
    • What powers psychotherapeutic healing and why is safety important in this approach to healing?
    • What governs why some people seem to make repeated bad choices?
    • What is trauma and how can therapy help?
    • How to engage in the process?
    • How do religion and spirituality relate to psychotherapy?
    • Trauma and healing
    • Do you have hope that healing is possible?
    • From the world of psychotherapy and faith, what one thing would you like people to know that might help them if listening today has raised questions.
    Links:
    Episode Transcript will follow soon
    St Marylebone HCC: St Marylebone HCC Psychotherapy - St Marylebone
    The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
    Get your GoHealth journal here.
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    32 mins
  • S5 Ep2: Healing Histories - Where it starts

    S5 Ep2: Healing Histories - Where it starts
    May 8 2024
    Be inspired by the roots of healing in the early church. Find out how healing was so linked to the growth of Christianity. Consider how we can be a healing presence today by learning from those who have gone before. We hope you find this an uplifting and hopeful podcast episode!

    In this first episode of the Healing Histories series we share a conversation with Professor Amanda Porterfield, professor of religion at Florida State university and author of ‘Healing in the history of Christianity’ Could there be anyone more perfect to launch this new podcast series from GoHealth? We don't think so.

    In their conversation, Gillian and Amanda cover the following topics:

    • Why Amanda wrote her book, ‘Healing in the History of Christianity.’
    • The reason healing played such a large part in the early church.
    • The history of christian healing in cultural context.
    • What Amanda means by the word ‘healing’ and 'miracle.'
    • How the church might heal from its sometimes harmful history.
    • How Amanda views the future of healing in the Christian faith.
    • The role of Community in making the world a better place.
    Links:
    Episode Transcript available here.
    Amanda Porterfield 'Healing in the History of Christianity.'
    The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
    Get your GoHealth journal here.
    Recent report on social factors and health
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    25 mins
Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Christianity Spirituality Science
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