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Activating Healthcare Through Nature: An Integrative Healthcare Festival

Activating Healthcare Through Nature: An 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 behind Activating Healthcare Through Nature, the very first Integrative Healthcare Festival, hosted by NCIM in collaboration with Weleda UK with special guest speakers Julia Bradbury.

The Interconnection of Human and Planetary Health

The Interconnection of Human and Planetary Health

Earth Day is celebrated around the world and is now the largest co-ordinated environmental event. I’ve spoken before about how planetary health and our wellbeing are deeply interconnected not just because of the significant influence on human health due to environmental degradation.

Raising Awareness of Stress and Trauma

Raising Awareness of Stress and Trauma

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 traumatic...

Why Homeopathy is Still Relevant in Today’s Medicine

Why Homeopathy is Still Relevant in Today’s Medicine

We’re celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness week because many of you may know that along with a range of Integrative approaches I trained in homeopathic medicine alongside my cancer training in palliative medicine. I still find homeopathy such a useful tool in the integrative medicine toolbox and we teach it along with 18 other approaches in our masters level 7 programme in Integrative Healthcare.

Thrive 55: Building age-friendly workplaces

Thrive 55: Building age-friendly workplaces

Within our Community pillar, we have been fortunate to secure some funding from St Monica’s Charitable Trust, with the aim of helping organisations understand and break down barriers faced by their employees aged 55+. Over 55’s make up nearly 1/3 of the UK workforce so supporting and encouraging our over 55’s to not only survive but to thrive in the workplace is essential for a forward thinking dynamic organisation.

What is Integrative Medicine?

What is Integrative Medicine?

Sometimes I think the biggest barrier to making integrative medicine more accessible is a lack of understanding by traditional doctors or the general public of what integrative actually means.

The Planetary Parade

The Planetary Parade

It’s been exciting in the month of February to be able to witness the planetary parade. Because of the lack of moon and the way the planet have aligned with the sun, very few of us were able to see all 7 planets, but even to be able to orientate oneself to the west as the sunsets and then to see the evening star Venus come into the night sky, followed by Jupiter and Mars was exciting.

Integrative Approaches to Gut Health Summary

Integrative Approaches to Gut Health Summary

Last week we had our online Spring conference on Gut Health, and it was a fantastic event. Nearly 100 of you booked in live to hear from our speakers and today I would like to summarise a little of what we learnt at the conference. It’s a subject I never tire of hearing about and I think the number of attendees testifies as to how big a subject gut health has become not just for health practitioners but for the general public also.