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Emily moved out to Denver about three years ago from Georgia and was really depressed. Then a friend brought her rock climbing for the first time.
“I felt like a big idiot, but everybody was so warm and nice to me and they were in the business of doing nice things,” she recalls. “You need others to learn to do this, and they were the way for me.”
An epidemiologist for the health department, she’s made rock climbing a regular part of her life and has seen the benefits as it relates to her recovery journey as well.
“The fact that everyone’s there with this common goal of doing active things and changing their life everyday, I’ve learned a lot about how my recovery could have been better early on if I had this,” Emily says.
While she’s been in recovery for eight years now, in the early days she was all alone out there. Now, with a group of like-minded people who understand the importance of sobriety and can all focus together on something positive and active, she’s moving forward. She may have found sober community early on, but nothing like what she discovered at Phoenix Multisport.
“It was nothing like this,” she recalls. “It’s not really about distracting you from your problems. There’s a lot of clarity of vision.”