Jill Emmelhainz
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318 appearances
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first heard Jul 2016
last heard Jul 2016
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But for us, we figured that if she had a bad experience or a negative one to begin with, that she would likely put her foot down and refuse to even give it a try.
So that's why we chose the route we did of just taking her out there and let's see what happens.
It worked great.
Um she we did the uh actually six weeks last fall at home sh with medication, with the therapy.
therapist, she usually has two to three, maybe four significant meltdowns a week because of anxiety.
When we got out there in the woods.
In that six weeks she had one partial meltdown.
And that was all.
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely transformative.
And so that's where my husband and I talked about it once we got back in the fall and kind of said, Well, obviously we're gonna keep doing this.
because it brings her so so much peace.
So as you said at in the intro, um she and I completed another five weeks of hiking this spring and had a similar result that she did not have anxiety when she was hiking.
maybe for a very short time, the bigger thing that it has done is
She now has an experience to be able to process and compare.
life in the real world to what it's like there.
And so
You know how one of the techniques that they'll often use with somebody with anxiety is to say, you know, try to think of your happy thoughts or your happy place.
you know, try to take deep breaths.
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