Where Spirit and Body Meet: Spirituality and Chronic Illness

The Unchosen Fork

Spirituality, faith, community: whatever you call it, Kelly and Sarah cover it. In The Unchosen Fork's first guest episode, Kelly and Sarah tackle the big questions with one of their spiritual gurus, Megan Swett.
As a future priest, Megan discusses the many sides of spirituality, how her own Unchosen Fork influenced her faith and how chronic illness can deepen the understanding of community. And, no surprise to anyone, Sarah needs the tissues again.
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Megan Swett Bio
Megan Swett is a spouse, parent, former non-profit professional, and current seminary student discerning her call to ministry in the Episcopal Church.
Megan also lives with a chronic illness, which informs how she understands the roles of healing, wholeness, and hope in her own faith and life. Megan finds meaning in faith practices grounded in hospitality, belonging, and relationship, practices that can be the antidote to the isolation and fear commonly brought on by chronic illness.
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Resources
Spirituality and Chronic Illness

Kerstin Stieber Roger & Andrew Hatala (2018) Religion, spirituality & chronic illness: A scoping review and implications for health care practitioners, Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 37:1, 24-44, DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2017.1386151
Jimenez-Fonseca, P., Lorenzo-Seva, U., Ferrando, P.J. et al. The mediating role of spirituality (meaning, peace, faith) between psychological distress and mental adjustment in cancer patients. Support Care Cancer 26, 1411–1418 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-017-3969-0
Bite Size
Turner, Kelly A. Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer against All Odds. First edition. New York, NY: HarperOne, 2014.
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