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What Backpacking Alone Means for My Mental Health
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I have just returned from a week-long wilderness backpacking trip, by myself. As I have gotten older, I have been learning to give myself more permission to do these trips.
And as a therapist, I find this time alone is an essential part of taking care of myself so I can best support my clients. It helps me create space in myself to be compassionately present with others as they explore their emotions, whether grief, rage, joy or acceptance.
Curiously, each time I embark on one of these trips, I am asked various questions like, “aren’t you afraid?” Or “don’t you get bored?” And “what does your husband think?” What is interesting to me about these questions is what they reveal about our relationships to freedom, solitude and the unknown.
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