ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to raise the key issue of well-being for healthcare staff, and explores possibilities with regard to how we care for and develop our spiritual selves. Self-awareness is a significant component of enabling a practitioner to provide sensitive person-centred spiritual care. There are a range of relationships or situations within which healthcare staff may actively reflect on their practice and experience, consciously or not, ranging from informal conversations to more disciplined and rigorous approaches. Healthcare chaplains have a key role in supporting staff who are working in different healthcare contexts. As chaplains, like many in the caring professions, we can be more gentle with others than we are with ourselves. It is significant that others in healthcare may feel that they have permission to prioritise care for themselves if we, too, are able to do that for ourselves.
