Guild of Health and St Raphael

GoHealth Podcast

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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.

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Episodes

S1 Ep4: Sacramental stories - breast cancer 04.01.2021 44:05

Gillian talks with Bishop Jan McFarlane about her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer and living with the difference that such an experience makes. Bishop Jan shares a powerful story of being anointed with oil and the experience of being prayed with during her experience of being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. Together they discuss: Wellbeing during lockdown. The experience...

S1 Ep3: Sacramental stories - art 04.12.2020 51:22

Released during Advent 2020, this episode provides an opportunity to reflect on our collective experience of living through Coronavirus in 2020. Gillian talks with internationally renowned sculptor and artist, Peter Walker, who has created an exhibition called 'Leaves of the Trees' which is touring Cathedrals across the United Kingdom. The exhibition offers a moment to reflect and to hope togeth...

S1 Ep2: Sacramental Stories - Racism 09.11.2020 50:19

This episode was edited from a Book launch for Azariah France-Williams book ‘Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England’ hosted by the Guild of Health and St. Raphael in September 2020. Gillian makes known her discomfort chairing the conversation as a white woman and describes her experience of reading the book. She outlines her hope for this conversation to lead to action. Azariah...

S1 Ep1: Sacramental stories - the pilot 16.10.2020 48:53

Introducing the GoHealth podcast! Gillian Straine (CEO) hosts the first episode, introducing the theme of storytelling as healing. Gillian shares her experience of healing from having cancer in her early twenties. Wendy Lloyd talks about how long it can take for wounds to scar over in her experience of having ovarian cancer. Graham Fender-Allison describes different moments of healing along his li...