sv podcast – talking Spiritual Care with Laura

Welcome, gentle listener, and thanks for joining us! In this podcast we explore spiritual care – both in health care and in life in general. And we’re delighted to speak with Laura who is a hospice chaplain in central Scotland. Our recurring themes recently in the podcast have been faith and doubt, and grief, and the idea and practice of spiritual care seems to weave in and out of these themes.

Laura joins Darren and Holly by the power of Zoom for a fascinating, truthful and kind conversation.

And you can join in the conversation too – leave us a comment here or get in touch on Twitter or Facebook.. We’d love to know what you think.

This podcast was recorded on Thursday 18 May 2023. Available from Apple Podcasts , TuneIn Radio, and on your favourite podcast App. Duration: 39’17 minutes.
Theme music by Nicolai Heidlas.

Referenced this month is A Hole in the World by Amanda Held Opelt

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2 Responses to "sv podcast – talking Spiritual Care with Laura"

Geraldine Rooney says:

June 7, 2023 at 5:18 pm

Thank you, interesting and thought provoking. As a Catholic, I have often wondered how medical establishments deal with spiritual care in these times. The old days of priests looking for Irish, Italian or Polish patient names must be long gone.
I am revising my opinion that Darren is “at it” in asserting that going to an Italian restaurant is – what was his expression, a religious or spiritual experience (sorry, my awful memory). One of our greatest pleasures is sitting at table, just the two of us, or a group. To share a meal is a very special activity, and Italy helps us to do it: the Slow Food movement, and cucina povera, for example.
Still listening and enjoying. Thanks!

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1. Darren says:
  
  June 8, 2023 at 10:32 am
  
  Hi Geraldine, thanks for these comments – glad you found the podcast interesting.
  
  I agree with you whole-heartedly about the pleasures of sharing a meal. The food is so important, isn’t it? It’s always nice to meet with friends but to meet around a table somehow feels more of a celebration of life and, I suppose, fellowship. And adding bread and wine keeps things nicely biblical…
  
  However when it comes to restaurants generally I would indeed agree that someone claiming a restaurant meal was a religious experience, was just indulging in hyperbole or playing at being Jay Rayner. The difference for us with our favourite restaurant is that the chef has been cooking for us for over 20 years now, we’ve met his family several times, and of course we know the front-of-house staff really well too. So eating at Locanda feels completely different, for us, to eating anywhere else (where money changes hands) – and is much more akin to gathering around a table with friends.
  
  When we were in Sardinia, our friendly barman in Bosa taught us the phrase “le cose belle della vita” – the beautiful things in life – and talked about the importance of appreciating the good times. They’re great philosophers, the Italians!
  
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