Accompaniment in the event of illness, questions of meaning and existential stress
Spiritual Care deals with questions of meaning, existential issues and inner orientation in the context of illness and stressful life situations.
The approach is interdisciplinary and anchored in medicine, nursing and psychosocial care.
The work is based on many years of research into spirituality from a neuroscientific perspective as well as the accompaniment of people with chronic diseases.
Access is:
- non-religious
- not esoteric
- scientifically
- Reflected and practice-oriented
Why Spiritual Care Can Make Sense in Chronic Illness:
Chronic diseases – such as urticaria, angioedema or mast cell-associated diseases often raise fundamental questions:
- How can I live my life with the disease?
- How do I deal with uncertainty or loss of control?
- What is orientation when medical responses are limited?
- How does a coherent self-image remain?
- How do I deal with existential questions?
These and other questions are central to those affected.
What Spiritual Care can do:
- to open up a protected space for questions of meaning, values and orientation
- Classification of disease experiences without evaluating or interpreting them
- Making internal resources, attitudes and sustainable perspectives visible
- Reflection Where Medical Explanations Push Limits
The approach is deliberately non-therapeutic, non-religious and non-normative. The focus is on reflection, classification and orientation.
Specialisation:
A particular focus is on accompanying people with chronic, severe forms of urticaria, edema, MCAS and other concomitant diseases.
These diseases are often accompanied by persistent uncertainty, social restriction and existential stress.
Spiritual care can provide important, complementary support here.