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Outside/In

Healing Hands of Nature

Outside/In

NHPR

Documentary, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Wilderness Therapy is a form of treatment that uses the natural world to address behavioral and mental health issues in teens. But with a tattered history of institutional abuse, patchwork oversight, and absent legislation, is this treatment option too wild to be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When Jake Duggan was 14, his parents sent him to sleep away camp.

0:04.0

And like anyone who spent time sleeping outdoors knows, sometimes when you camp, it rains.

0:10.0

There was a point that I realized when you're in the woods for long periods of time and it's

0:15.2

raining there's a point where you get so wet that you can't get any more wet and you just

0:20.3

kind of have to accept it. Jake says on this particular trip,

0:24.1

it rained non-stop from Thursday through Saturday.

0:28.2

Then, just as he and his fellow rain-soaked campers

0:31.4

were setting up for Saturday's dinner, things started to clear.

0:35.3

That's when it happened.

0:36.3

I looked and I saw the sun setting in the clouds kind of clearing, and this sounds like I'm making

0:42.4

it up but I'm not. I turn around there's this giant

0:46.4

giant rainbow, the biggest rainbow I've ever seen and then a huge bald eagle flew right

0:51.8

through the rainbow.

0:53.2

I grabbed one of the guides and I was like,

0:56.2

you know, this is the first time I'm actually like feeling happy

1:00.2

and in years.

1:02.4

For Jake being happy was a big deal.

1:05.0

Because this wasn't an ordinary summer camp and Jake wasn't an ordinary camper.

1:10.0

He liked the wilderness.

1:11.0

He loved hiking. He loved being outside.

1:13.0

This is Jake's mom, Aaron Duggan.

1:15.0

She says that when Jake was growing up, he would spend a lot of time outside with his dad, Tim.

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