Taking the Long Way Around: A Mother's Journey into Wilderness Therapy and Beyond

Winter is on the wane , snow and ice are melting at last.  With little more than a month left to go our daughter is working through her final tasks, among them starting a fire with a bow-drill.  For my part I’m looking forward to spending some time together again. In our discussions with the therapists talk has been shifting away from examining the past, near and far, in favor of the present and considering the future. Not the near future that I was looking forward to, but the further out future.  We are being asked to think about what we envision as the most helpful next step for our daughter (and by association, ourselves) to take. At that time, now about a year in the past, I wanted to believe that with the right support, our daughter could pick up her cat, find a roommate, and resume her studies at our nearby university.   I wasn't wholly naive, I knew she would need help and to that end I was looking for a good education consultant in the area...