What if medicine started with lifestyle solutions rather than seeking solutions to sickness? Listen to Dr Richard Pile's hard won wisdom in the area of lifestyle medicine in this inspiring and challenging conversation with Gillian Straine.
Trigger warning - there is a mention of suicide towards the end of this episode.
Find Richard's full biography and
the transcript of this conversation here.
- Richard’s extensive biography and multiple jobs
- Richard describes how he came to faith as a child and how his journey of faith has taken him to a variety of church expressions over the years
- Lifestyle medicine described and explained – moving away from a sickness model to a health model
- What is health? Physical, spiritual
- The importance of talking about how you are feeling.
- Hard won wisdom from adversity and how Richard got involved with life-style medicine
- The role of churches and medicine in holding the conversation about purpose.
- The healing we receive when helping others.
- Dealing with death – how the church can really serve the community.
- A different way of doing church
- The importance of connection
- Doing what we have influence over and finding meaning in what we do.
- Richards starting pointers for wellbeing
