Why Adventurous Family Travel Is Good for Us | Dr Kate Staveley

What if adventurous family travel isn't just fun, but actually good for our health, our relationships and the resilience of our children? In this episode of **Travel More Adventurously**, Rebecca Ryell talks to **Dr Kate Staveley**, GP, lifestyle medicine doctor and co-founder of **Hexagon Health**, about the connection between family travel, health and wellbeing. Kate has travelled adventurously with her own children for years - climbing mountains in Borneo, surfing together in Costa Rica, volcano boarding in Nicaragua and, more recently, travelling in Japan. We explore the **six pillars of lifestyle medicine** - nutrition, restorative sleep, physical activity, social connection, mental wellbeing and reducing harmful substances, and dicuss how surprisingly naturally many of them can become part of travelling together as a family. We also talk about **raising resilient children**, knowing when to encourage them through discomfort and when to stop, getting away from screens, experiencing different cultures, eating local food, learning to cope when plans go wrong and the powerful connection that comes from doing hard, funny and memorable things together. Kate also shares her recent experience of travelling in **Japan**, including Tokyo, public transport, food, language, jet lag and why she found Japan such an easy and fascinating place to explore. And we come back to something that sits at the heart of this podcast: the window we have to adventure with our children is surprisingly short. If you've ever thought *one day we'll take that trip*, this conversation might just encourage you to make it happen. **Find Kate and Hexagon Health:** https://hexagon.health/ **Find Rebecca and Travel More Adventurously:** https://www.rebeccaryell.co.uk If you enjoyed this episode, please follow **Travel More Adventurously**, share it with another family who might need a little encouragement, and leave a review, it really helps more people find the podcast. #FamilyTravel #AdventureTravel #TravelWithKids #LifestyleMedicine #FamilyAdventure