This is a conversation about mental health and using adventure as a tool to improve your overall wellbeing. Mike Hudson is making adventure and nature accessible and teaching both kids and adults how to get outside have fun and get healthy.

Mike is an avid trail runner who loves spending time outdoors and exploring nature and has always used this to balance himself. He and his wife began seeing outdoor activity as a great tool to stay healthy both mentally and physically.

As a community outreach worker in the school system, Mike worked with some of the kids there. He would take them out for walks and do activities out in nature, and when he brought them back, the teachers were always in shock by how much better behaved they were. The Adventure Therapy Project was born to kids and adults outside more and into nature.

Mike also does some adventuring of his own, and we get into the details on an adventure that took him outside of his comfort zone last year, which was a trek from Meat Cove to Pollet's Cove in Cape Bretton Nova Scotia. This was not your standard overnight hiking trip, it involved a lot of bushwhacking, route finding, and scaling some very intimidating cliff faces.

Since the inception of The Adventure therapy project a few years ago, I've been following along, ever curious to see how this amazing idea was going to develop. I really enjoyed this conversation to catch up with Mike and hear all about it.

Memorable Quote

"Our younger generations we tend to baby them, we try to shelter them from everything, but kids love a little bit of risk and they like to be challenged just like we do"

Show Notes

You can check out more of what Mike is up to at https://theadventuretherapyproject.ca

or on Facebook @theadventuretherapyproject

or on Instagram @theadventuretherapyproject

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