What is spirituality?
What is spirituality?
The Royal College of Psychiatrists offer further insight into Spiritual Wellbeing and how it can support recovery, see below a definition of spirituality from their website:
Spirituality doesn’t have one definition and can mean many different things for everyone. We understand that spirituality is personal and unique to everyone. These are a few examples of what spirituality could include:
- Finding meaning and purpose
- Values such as honesty, kindness and compassion
- Having hope
- Discovering resilience and strength
- Developing trust
- A sense of connectedness with ourselves, others, the natural world and perhaps what lies beyond
- Having a belief in self, others and for some, in a higher being
- Religious practices
- A sense of belonging
- Meditation / mindfulness / prayer / contemplation
- Creativity and self-expression
Where we are based
Where we are based
Spiritual Wellbeing Rooms at NHFT:
We have Spiritual Wellbeing rooms which are open for everyone, for those with or without a faith. You can use the room to sit, reflect, ponder, pause, or pray. This space welcomes anyone wishing to find solitude, silence and peace.
- Berrywood Hospital in Northampton, we have an Inter- faith chapel which is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
- St Mary’s Hospital Kettering (Oakwood Centre), we have a spiritual wellbeing room which is open 8am - 6pm.
(Both sites include an ablution rooms) - Castle Unit at Isebrook Hospital in Wellingborough offers a spiritual wellbeing room which is open Monday to Friday 8am-6pm.
