Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Give Back

Recently while vising Adventure Links of Loudoun County Virginia, I met one of their field instructors with a very personal therapeutic wilderness experience.

Seems one night when he was 17 years old he awoke to find two escorts at his bed preparing to transport him to a program in Colorado. His family had decided a crisis intervention was needed. They were tired of his acting out, his poor school performance, his drugs, his abuse of himself and those that loved him, it was time to face and fight the devil.

At first he was oppositional as was his normal reaction to anything his folks offered. But in three weeks he found a sense of control he did not think he had previously. He no longer was lost and unable to cope but now found a sense of control over his life that gave him an opportunity to change.

In five weeks time he was the happiest he had ever been. He finished the course and returned to his family with a renewed sense of purpose.

Today he gives back by helping other youth learn from nature that the powers to control their lives are already in place within themselves but just hidden.

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