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How do we heal the history of racism when it is still so present and prevalent? Gillian explores this difficult question with the Revd Dr Sharon Prentis. Revd Prentis is Deputy Director of Church of England’s Racial Justice Unit. She is also a tutor in theology and in her previous work was recognised by the Department of Health when she was named as a Mary Seacole Scholar for a project on faith and the impact on health.   

Together they cover the following themes:





What it means for people to thrive.
Institutional health practices and what needs to change.
How the Church of England's Racial Justice Unit came to exist.
The whole person impact of racism.
The daily reality of living with racism including code switching.
Healing the history of the slave trade.
The role of the church in healing racism and enabling the flourishing of all in our societies.
Sharon's personal story of how she came to engage in the work of honest dialogue. 
What gives her hope to keep on keeping on.

Links:
Every Tribe, by Sharon Prentis
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
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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
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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
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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
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Recent report on social factors and health

What is going on in our brain when we experience pain? Are emotional, mental and physical pain the same? Is it all in our heads after all? In this episode of the GoHealth podcast we take a deep dive into the topic of pain, what it is and how to live with it, with Professor Amy Wachholtz.

Prof Amy Wachholtz is an Associate Professor in psychology at the university of Colorado where she is the director of health psychology. 

She specializes in talking a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach in identifying ways to improve pain management including in palliative care, acute medical care, chronic pain and addiction. 

She is a psychologist who doesn’t just sit in the university but has a license to prescibe, working with patients in care, including those with cancer, chronic pain and at end of life. She is also holds a masters in divinity and has worked as a chaplain.  

Gillian and Amy cover:


How Amy got into the field of pain research.
What is pain?
Why we sometimes don't feel pain even when injured in some way.
The relationship between physical, emotional and mental types of pain.
The need for a holistic and integrated approach to main management.
How faith influences living with pain.
The Ken Pargament Model of the role of religion in pain tolerance.
How church can help people living with pain.
Being empowered to live with pain.

Links:

Find out more about Amy's work a the Wachholtz Lab

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We can't think of a better way to draw our series on burnout to a conclusion by talking to Jonathan Malesic - he literally wrote the book on how to end burnout. 'The End of Burnout' was an Amazon best book in 2022 and is being translated into 9 languages - this is an episode many people need to hear!

Jonathan Malesic is an essayist, journalist, and scholar whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, America, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, The Hedgehog Review, The Point, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. His work has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2019). He has been the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute. His first book, Secret Faith in the Public Square, won a ForeWord INDIES gold medal for the religion category (2009). His newest book, The End of Burnout, was named a Best Book of 2022 by Amazon and the Next Big Idea Club. It is being translated into nine languages. He lives in Dallas, Texas. Image credit: Sarah Wall.

In this episode, Gillian Străine, CEO of GoHealth explores the following with Jonathan: 





What drove him to write The End of Burnout'  
The gap between our expectation of work, and the reality – cause it’s in the gap that the trouble happens!
How Christian theology is both a cause and cure of burnout.
How to working well is about remembering what it means to be human.
The spiritual discipline of 'getting over it'.
The importance of challenging the system as a means to end burnout.  
Dwelling in dignity and divinity.
What Advent has to teach us about the end of burnout.

Links:

Jonathan's website: https://jonmalesic.com
The End of Burnout - or available wherever you get your books.
Jonathan also mentioned '4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman' also available wherever you get your books.
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