Skyland Trail provided a “bubble of healing.” When I walked through the doors of Skyland Trail, I had been struggling with mental health challenges for eight years and had been in multiple psychiatric hospitals and day programs, a few of which were the results of serious suicide attempts. I had a chart over an inch…
A Validating and Supportive Community In the past, I believed I could never make a life for myself that I could be content with. Coming to Skyland was probably the best thing I could have done for my mental health. Never before have I been a part of such a validating and supportive community. Everyone…
Changing the Trajectory of Someone’s Life “All of a sudden, I could tell. I know when he isn’t himself,” says Angie W. about her younger brother. “He wanted to stay home. He stopped coming to family outings and to his cousin’s ball games. He would talk to himself and about himself in the third-person,” Angie…
Skyland Trail’s web materials note that “many of our clients come to us exhausted, scared and desperate.” That was me in July of 2019. Earlier in the year, I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. That diagnosis later proved inaccurate, but it was the triggering event for my third lifetime event of generalized anxiety disorder. The…
A Place to Start I took a surfing lesson this morning. I also took one back in 2008. The two lessons could not have been more different. The one back in 2008 was in Costa Rica and it was on a whim; I was following the crowd and was incredibly hungover to the point of being…
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