Be Here Now with Dr. Ruth Allen

By The Outdoor Journal LLC

Outdoor therapist Dr. Ruth Allen invites us to break through the walls of traditional therapy to be a more active participant in the healing process and seek out euphoria in the outdoors. (Read the full article on The Outdoor Journal).Who among us hasn’t felt stuck at some point in their life? Without forward momentum, we begin to slowly sink and become vulnerable to the grips of anxiety and depression that reach out to grab us from just below the visible surface of everyday life. We get wound up in ruminating thought patterns and mental scripts that we repeatedly tell ourselves. “Maybe I’m just not good enough...Maybe I deserve to suffer.” Yet, when we seek help in traditional therapy, we find ourselves further trapped, our problems are sealed off in a doctor’s office. We sit in our problems, motionless, static. Outdoor therapist Ruth Allen guides her clients to break through these four walls and move past periods of stuckness by connecting with nature.For more stories like this, visit The Outdoor Journal.And if you’d like to go on your own adventure to Ethiopia's highest mountain range, check out our hiking package in Simien National Park on The Outdoor Voyage.