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What The Doctor Recommends
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“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of the living.” — Miriam Beard
What The Doctor Recommends is fuelled by a passion for creating accessible, impactful solutions that combat chronic work stress in a post-pandemic world, by harnessing the evidence-based psychosocial benefits of travel to promote mental health and build resilience in the workforce.
Our signature Prescribed Wellness Travel™ program integrates comprehensive stress management coaching before and after each tailor-made trip, ensuring employees and entrepreneurs actively destress and return happier, healthier and better equipped with sustainable work-life balance practices.
Numerous studies and anecdotal evidence (1, 2, 3) show the benefits of travelling are not limited to the individual; organisations offering flexible travel benefits/policies which actively encourage employees to use their allocated annual vacation time and have work-life balance, enhance productivity, foster innovation and boost creativity, collaboration, thought diversity and wellness among their staff.
Your Guide To Prescribed Travel
Our Philosophy And Approach
What The Doctor Recommends is a groundbreaking work health and wellness travel startup company - listed in the Evening Standard as one of the UK's "Top Doctor-Led Health Techs Saving The NHS - dedicated to revolutionising workplace well-being by prescribing proactive, tailor-made wellness travel experiences for employees and entrepreneurs, designed to foster early intervention for chronic work stress to prevent occupational burnout.
The company was founded by ex-NHS Doctor and travel enthusiast Dr Noreen Nguru, amidst the vast emerging scientific research confirming the positive impact of travelling to new and unfamiliar destinations on mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.
Our team of doctors, wellness experts and travel specialists carefully curate experiential travel experiences designed to address our clients’ specific holistic goals whether they seek to reduce stress, improve their mental health, or simply recharge their batteries. From luxury spa retreats to wilderness expeditions, our travel recommendations are tailored to each client's unique needs and preferences.
We believe your holiday time should be more than just a temporary escape from the stresses of daily life. By prescribing travel to promote wellness and prevent burnout, we hope to empower our clients to make lasting changes in their lives and achieve a better, more balanced state of well-being.
In addition, with our stress management life coaching programs, we are dedicated to providing you with all the psychological tools you need to disrupt the neverending cycle of overwork and overwhelm; so you can develop healthy coping strategies to better manage the work and life challenges standing in the way of your goals.
The core of Prescribed Wellness Travel™️ is to assist you in creating a new pattern for yourself that supports and sustains an ongoing transformation after your trip. Once this model is in place, you will finally be able to conquer the fear and self-imposed limitations that have been holding you back from creating the type of lifestyle you crave and deserve. You will move forward with the belief that ANYTHING is possible.
Think of travel as a spark plug, a catalyst that can trigger ripples of change across many areas of your life, as you journey inwards while exploring the world around you.
And the match needed to ignite said change?
You.
If you are ready to use the power of travel therapy to detox from technology, break the neverending cycle of overwork and overwhelm and build positive life coping skills so you can better manage the stresses of work and everyday life, hit the button below and let's get started.
“I needed to get away for clarity and a sense of direction in my life. Everything was getting on top of me; my job, a complicated relationship, family life. I was probably on the way to completely burning out or a nervous breakdown before the prescribed wellness holiday to Italy. Dr Noreen, I cannot recommend you enough.”
Meeting with Dr. Nguru was the best thing I've ever done for myself. Her coaching style is firm but very supportive. She gave me lots of anxiety self-management tools and mindfulness exercises to try for the plane ride and since our meeting I have felt more in control of my thoughts and emotions than ever before.
The Science: Benefits Of Wellness Travel:
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Travel increases neuroplasticity
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Travel creates stronger antibodies
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Travel increases life satisfaction
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Travel expands the sense of happiness
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Travel increases life expectancy
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Travel reduces occupational burnout
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Travel lowers the risk of heart disease
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Travel improves sleep quality
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Travel encourages active rest
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Travel reduces levels of stress
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Travel reduces levels of anxiety
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Travel lowers the risk of depression
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Travel increases productivity
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Travel improves problem-solving skills
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Travel encourages creativity
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Travel increases iodine in the body
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Travel reduces Vitamin D deficiency
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Travel increases physical activity
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Travel increases tolerance for others
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Travel strengthens relationships
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Travel increases self-compassion
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Travel increases mindfulness
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Travel boosts overall health & wellbeing
Our founder's story...
"I was burnout and merely existing -"
Standing at the base of Mt Batur on my penultimate day in Bali, with the early morning sunlight dancing across my upturned face, I finally felt it. Peace, contentment and connection. Connection to the breathtaking landscape towering above me, to the locals sleepily setting up their market wares for the day and most significantly, to myself. With that sudden clarity, I realized that somewhere along the line I had fallen out of alignment with my mind, body and soul's purpose. Burdened with the pressures of achieving career milestones and trying to meet everyone else's expectations of me, I was burnout and merely existing.
That was in 2017.
Looking back, the trip was the catalyst for positive transformation in many areas of my life. And as I began to research the multitude of mental, physical, spiritual and scientific benefits that travel provides when we slow down and holistically explore our inner selves as we explore the world, the foundations of What The Doctor Recommends and Prescribed Wellness Travel™️ were laid.
Today, my team of dual-trained health and travel specialists support overwhelmed professionals and high-achievers in demanding careers, battling stress, sleep disturbances and occupational burnout to connect with the essence of what makes them feel alive.
We provide life coaching using a range of cognitive behavioural-based psychology techniques which, when combined with Prescribed Wellness Travel™️ support our clients to press reset, detox from technology and break the toxic cycle of overwork and overwhelm so they can achieve greater levels of well-being, happiness and personal fulfilment.
If you're ready to explore with purpose and tap into the transformational power of wellness travel, let's get started.
Dr Noreen Nguru
Founder and Medical Director
Health and Travel
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Outstanding Service
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European Mentoring and Coaching Council Member
International Standards
The Travel Coach Network Global Ambassador
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