by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | May 6, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Sleep and Why It’s So Important Why do we sleep? Despite decades of research, the fundamental purpose of sleep remains only partially understood. One prevailing theory is that sleep evolved to support biological maintenance—our bodies and brains engage in...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 30, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Activating Healthcare Through Nature: The Integrative Healthcare Festival What if the future of healthcare wasn’t just about treating illness, but actively cultivating health through connection—to ourselves, to each other, and to nature? That’s the powerful idea...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog Post, General
The Interconnection of Human and Planetary Health Earth Day on the 22 April, is celebrated around the world and which is now the largest co-ordinated environmental event. I’ve spoken before about how planetary health and our wellbeing are deeply...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Raising Awareness of Stress and Trauma April is stress awareness month and with the next NCIM conference coming up in May about trauma I wanted to talk about stress, trauma and some practical ways we can manage these events in our lives. Whilst trauma or a...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 10, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Why Homeopathy is Still Relevant in Today’s Medicine We’re celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness week and I wanted to speak about why homeopathy is still very much relevant in today’s medicine. Many of you may know that along with a range of...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Thrive 55: Building age-friendly workplaces As some of you may know when I started the National Centre for Integrative Medicine as a not for profit community interest company, I was committed to the idea of four pillars – within the Education pillar we...
