Taunton Wellbeing Day

Back by popular demand!  After the roaring success of our Wellbeing Day earlier this year, we’re holding another event this autumn.

Come and be inspired by our speakers – each has great expertise and an inspiring story to tell.

Explore ways to transform your health and wellbeing through many different healing modalities offered by stall holders and practitioners.

11:00 am How Healing Is Different From Curing

Prof Paul Dieppe BSc MD FRCP FFPH

Paul qualified as a doctor in London in 1970. He specialized in rheumatology and became ARC professor of rheumatology in Bristol in 1987, and then Dean of the Bristol Faculty of Medicine between 1994 and 1997. He then switched to health services research and was the Director of the MRC Health Services Research Collaboration between 1997 and 2007. After that he spent a short time at the University of Exeter before moving to the Peninsular Medical School to work in clinical education research.

With the formation of the new Exeter Medical School, he then took on the new role of Professor of Health and Wellbeing, and is working on setting up a network of people in and around Exeter with academic interests in health and wellbeing. Paul is also doing a part-time PhD on healing.

His book “Healing and Medicine: A Doctor’s Journey Toward Their Integration” was published in 2023.

“Healing is on many people’s minds today. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other disruptions and disasters, many of us feel that we need healing – in our personal lives, for the environment and for our planet. But healing is rarely defined and is not an accepted part of medicine in the West. This book examines the relationship between healing and medicine through the eyes of an academic physician who changed his interests from biomedical research to healing late in his career in medicine. It is based on his experiences and stories of his encounters with patients, practitioners and others for whom healing has had a particular significance, as well as his rigorous research into the subject. A central theme of the book is that modern medicine needs to be more pluralistic in its approach to health and accept that spirituality and healing techniques have roles to play alongside scientific medicine, which currently has its base in materialism alone.”

2:00 pm How Life Can Be Completely Pain Free

Althea Finch – Founder of The Pain Free Method©

Althea has spent the last 35 years helping people from around the world to be completely free of pain naturally – without medication or surgery.

The Pain-Free Method© is an alignment-based approach that doesn’t just mask pain—it helps you understand and release it. When your body is in alignment, symptoms naturally disappear. Instead of resisting pain, we connect with it, allowing deep healing so it never returns.

This isn’t just relief—it’s lasting transformation. Your body can heal, and I’m here to guide you every step of the way.

Pain doesn’t have to control your life. When you stop resisting it and align with your body, it naturally disappears — for good.

Our practitioners/stallholders

Come and meet our fantastic practitioners, who will include:

Dr Kamaraj, a Tamil doctor trained in modern and ancient techniques of medicine and healing who runs retreats with Jenny and Robin Littman, and who will be offering a description of his work, and a sound bath to end the day.

Tickets for this event are £5 payable on the door. It will be from 10am to 4pm in West Monkton Village Hall, Monkton Heathfield, Taunton TA2 8NE  Parking is available at the hall, or in the surrounding streets. There will be affordable lunches, teas and coffees available.

Entry is FREE for Taunton Health Hub Members.  Find out more about membership