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How To Get Well and Stay Well: 6 Healthy Habits We All Need To Know with Dr Gemma Newman (Re-release) #625

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Feb 15, 2026

Dr Gemma Newman, a family doctor and holistic health author, blends medicine with nutrition, psychotherapy and mind-body methods. She explains the GLOVES framework and why self-compassion is key to lasting change. Short, practical habits like gratitude, nature, sleep, veggies, movement and loving practices get top billing. Expect simple tools, real stories and free, everyday ways to support health.

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ANECDOTE

Headaches Revealed By A Story Exercise

A man with tension headaches discovered estrangement from his father was a hidden stressor after a meaning-maker exercise.
Writing facts and gratitude reframed his story and improved his headaches without confronting his father.

INSIGHT

Labels Miss Many Root Causes

Chronic symptoms often have many different root causes that standard labels miss.
Gemma argues for combining medical knowledge with lifestyle, nutrition and psychotherapy for fuller healing.

ADVICE

Use GLOVES As A Daily Checklist

Use the GLOVES acronym: Gratitude, Love, Outside, Veggies, Exercise, Sleep as daily health priorities.
Focus on simple free habits across those six areas before costly interventions.

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What is it that really makes us healthy? Is it regular trips to the doctor, a swift diagnosis, and medicine when we need it? Or do we need a more holistic approach? Today’s guest believes it is the latter.

Dr Gemma Newman has been a family doctor in the NHS for 20 years. She is regularly invited to speak and teach all over the world and is incredibly passionate about treating body, mind and spirit as one - and this forms the basis of her brand new book, Get Well Stay Well - The Six Healing Health Habits You Need To Know.

Like me, Gemma increasingly found that her conventional medical training wasn’t yielding positive results for many of her patients - so she decided to take a more open-minded approach, studying nutrition, psychotherapy and a range of other holistic methods and combined them with her conventional medical practice. And, very soon, she began to see radical transformations in the health of her patients.

It’s this holistic method that Gemma explains in our conversation today, using the acronym GLOVES - which points to six key areas of life we can address if we want to get well and stay well. They’re ways of thinking, being and doing that should be front and centre in our lifestyles, and, of course, we discuss them all during our conversation together.

Crucially, Gemma, believes the first step in any effective, lasting behaviour change is finding self-compassion, and her approach will help you trust your inner wisdom, feel more in control, and stop outsourcing your wellbeing to the doctor’s surgery.

And in a world where ‘wellness’ often comes with a hefty price tag, her suggestions are all free. Gemma writes and speaks from the heart and I think you will really enjoy this conversation.

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