How to Thrive in 2025!
From AI-driven wellness solutions to personalised nutrition powered by wearable health technology, here is how we thrive in 2025!
Firstly I’d like to wish all my followers a Happy New Year. I know for many January can be a struggle after the frivolities of Christmas, or perhaps just a very dark month with little cheer and diminishing vitamin D stores!
However, I love January. The possibility to hunker down into a quiet month with less social engagements. A time to nourish, rest and recuperate before spring – in my opinion what the winter months should be used for. It’s also a time for many of reflection, to look back on the last year and towards a new year full of possibilities. I always urge patients not to put too much pressure on new years resolutions but instead find a fresh intention, be it just one word to focus on for the new year.
Out of interest, I asked AI what the top 10 health and wellness trends for 2025 were. Here was the list I got back:
Obviously I am delighted to see that AI feels integrative health approaches is a ‘trend‘ for 2025! Personally, I would love to see the shift continuing more towards conventional medicine targeting lifestyle and preventative medicine – something I have seen more and more of in 2024 with GP’s really starting to wave the flag for embracing measures that sit outside of the conventional medicine box. Chronic disease is on the rise and preventive healthcare is more crucial than ever.
It’s also wonderful to see gut health as a continuing trend for 2025 – for those of you who haven’t booked yet, our online Gut Health Conference is on Friday 21 February – book now! NCIM Conference: Integrative Approaches to Gut Health – NCIM – National Centre for Integrative Medicine
And for workplace wellness redefined – watch this space as the first NCIM health retreat kicks off this Friday for our core staff members. I hope to report back with glowing results!
I leave you with a poem for the New Year, about winter. Something I draw great comfort from whilst the mornings are still dark and whilst we await spring:
Winter’s Cloak by Joyce Rupp
This year I do not want
the dark to leave me.
I need its wrap
of silent stillness,
its cloak
of long lasting embrace.
Too much light
has pulled me away
from the chamber
of gestation.
Let the dawns
come late,
let the sunsets
arrive early,
let the evenings
extends themselves
while I lean into
the abyss of my being.
Let me lie in the cave
of my soul,
for too much light
blinds me,
steals the source
of revelation.
Let me seek solace
in the empty places
of winter’s passage,
those vast dark nights
that never fail to shelter me.
Dr Elizabeth Thompson