| Therefore, in overcoming addiction, it is | | | | the category of outdoor experiential therapy, |
| vital to learn to re-experience life. This | | | | is worth reviewing on its own due to its |
| lesson helps a treatment center resident | | | | uniqueness and successful results. Research |
| reintegrate into the world after therapy is | | | | supports the use of experiential therapy, as |
| through. Experiential therapy is this bridge | | | | motivation increases and social integration |
| to leaving a life of substance dependency and | | | | is easier through the experience of such |
| commencing a life of health, both physical | | | | therapy.The great outdoors is well known for |
| and mental. Experiential therapy is a | | | | its healing abilities, and exercise in itself |
| necessary component in the steps towards a | | | | releases the same good-feeling endorphins as |
| complete therapy. In addition to counseling | | | | a high does. There we have it: the high that |
| and more traditional therapies, experiential | | | | is healthy. Outdoor experiential therapy |
| is the door to the world - it forces the | | | | utilizes nature to help residents work |
| patient to test herself, to get up when she | | | | through their problems and free themselves |
| falls, to learn that giving up is not an | | | | from dependency through the physical |
| option. This is a vital lesson to learn when | | | | challenges offered in nature. Activities can |
| overcoming addiction, as when problems arise | | | | include winter sports like snowshoeing, and |
| after therapy, the former patient will | | | | summer sports like hiking. More radical |
| remember that there are other means of | | | | activities, like a heli-experience, are also |
| dealing with problems than turning back to | | | | possible. The heli-experience takes people |
| addiction.Experiential therapy includes many | | | | to literally previously unknown heights. In |
| various forms, and can be divided into two | | | | opening new worlds, these experiences |
| main categories: outdoor experiential therapy | | | | reconnect residences to their world, which is |
| and indoor experiential therapy. Both aim at | | | | so important to eventually helping them |
| physical and mental challenges in order to | | | | reconnect with the people who live in this |
| succeed. Equine therapy, which falls within | | | | world. |