Eugene woman helps others find breakthroughs with hike therapy
KGW News
[{'start': '0.040', 'end': '6.480', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '4.480', 'end': '8.000', 'text': 'Welcome back. It is time again for us to'}, {'start': '6.480', 'end': '9.280', 'text': 'get out there and this week has a little'}, {'start': '8.000', 'end': '11.360', 'text': 'bit of a different purpose. Yeah, the'}, {'start': '9.280', 'end': '13.679', 'text': 'outdoors is a place of healing for many'}, {'start': '11.360', 'end': '16.000', 'text': 'of us. And our John Goodwin met a Eugene'}, {'start': '13.679', 'end': '19.119', 'text': 'woman helping others to walk the path'}, {'start': '16.000', 'end': '21.840', 'text': 'that leads inward. As you come on this'}, {'start': '19.119', 'end': '24.320', 'text': "particular trail, you're greeted with a"}, {'start': '21.840', 'end': '26.480', 'text': 'bridge that you get to walk over and see'}, {'start': '24.320', 'end': '28.800', 'text': 'the canal. Outside Audson Stadium in'}, {'start': '26.480', 'end': '32.200', 'text': 'Eugene is one of the many places Anna'}, {'start': '28.800', 'end': '34.880', 'text': 'Makabe goes to work. I love what I do.'}, {'start': '32.200', 'end': '36.800', 'text': 'Incorporating connection. It matters.'}, {'start': '34.880', 'end': '39.520', 'text': 'Anna is a licensed clinical social'}, {'start': '36.800', 'end': '41.760', 'text': 'worker and therapist. 7 years ago, she'}, {'start': '39.520', 'end': '44.000', 'text': 'started a nature therapy practice called'}, {'start': '41.760', 'end': '46.239', 'text': 'connectedness matters. It gets her'}, {'start': '44.000', 'end': '48.800', 'text': 'clients out of a clinical setting. One'}, {'start': '46.239', 'end': '51.680', 'text': 'of those places is Alton Baker Park. I'}, {'start': '48.800', 'end': '52.800', 'text': "try to do loops, too. That's important."}, {'start': '51.680', 'end': '55.360', 'text': "Something that's not going to be"}, {'start': '52.800', 'end': '58.559', 'text': 'repetitive. If somebody, you know, has'}, {'start': '55.360', 'end': '60.640', 'text': 'any kind of anxiety about opening up,'}, {'start': '58.559', 'end': '63.359', 'text': "add eye contact to that and that's"}, {'start': '60.640', 'end': '65.600', 'text': 'awkward. So, this kind of eliminates the'}, {'start': '63.359', 'end': '68.000', 'text': 'need for eye contact at first. It kind'}, {'start': '65.600', 'end': '70.320', 'text': "of provides a soothing element. You're"}, {'start': '68.000', 'end': '72.240', 'text': 'getting your energy out. Whatever you'}, {'start': '70.320', 'end': '74.560', 'text': 'were holding on to kind of gets released'}, {'start': '72.240', 'end': '76.479', 'text': "a lot easier. She'll still do office"}, {'start': '74.560', 'end': '78.960', 'text': 'visits, but this hike therapy is where'}, {'start': '76.479', 'end': '80.799', 'text': 'Anna says the walls really come down.'}, {'start': '78.960', 'end': '83.680', 'text': 'The distractions of the trail help to'}, {'start': '80.799', 'end': '86.720', 'text': 'put hard life stuff into perspective.'}, {'start': '83.680', 'end': '89.920', 'text': "It's a reminder that um you can be"}, {'start': '86.720', 'end': '94.400', 'text': 'empowered and choose to be present in a'}, {'start': '89.920', 'end': '94.400', 'text': "hard time and it doesn't have to all"}, {'start': '95.799', 'end': '101.280', 'text': 'suck. I love this place. It definitely'}, {'start': '99.360', 'end': '103.360', 'text': 'humanizes therapy a little more than in'}, {'start': '101.280', 'end': '104.960', 'text': 'an office setting. I think it it helps'}, {'start': '103.360', 'end': '107.360', 'text': 'people feel a lot more at ease. Her'}, {'start': '104.960', 'end': '109.520', 'text': 'clients have ranged in age from 18 to'}, {'start': '107.360', 'end': '111.360', 'text': '70ome. When I started doing hike'}, {'start': '109.520', 'end': '113.200', 'text': 'therapy, I thought that I was going to'}, {'start': '111.360', 'end': '114.960', 'text': "get all these avid hikers, and that's"}, {'start': '113.200', 'end': '116.720', 'text': "not who I got at all. She's seen people"}, {'start': '114.960', 'end': '119.280', 'text': 'who feel trapped in their desk jobs to'}, {'start': '116.720', 'end': '121.200', 'text': 'those navigating midlife journeys. Out'}, {'start': '119.280', 'end': '123.439', 'text': 'here, she gets to combine her work with'}, {'start': '121.200', 'end': '126.320', 'text': "her own love for the outdoors. When I'm"}, {'start': '123.439', 'end': '129.920', 'text': "at my wit's end of whatever, I go to the"}, {'start': '126.320', 'end': '132.160', 'text': 'water and sit there. And kind of having'}, {'start': '129.920', 'end': '134.000', 'text': "something greater than me that's doing"}, {'start': '132.160', 'end': '136.000', 'text': 'just fine, it keeps going kind of helps'}, {'start': '134.000', 'end': '137.599', 'text': "me remember like it's going to be fine."}, {'start': '136.000', 'end': '140.000', 'text': 'Anna has helped more than a hundred'}, {'start': '137.599', 'end': '143.120', 'text': 'people over the years find connection to'}, {'start': '140.000', 'end': '145.680', 'text': "nature, to others, to themselves. It's"}, {'start': '143.120', 'end': '147.920', 'text': 'rewarding to watch people heal in front'}, {'start': '145.680', 'end': '150.879', 'text': 'of you, especially outside and watching'}, {'start': '147.920', 'end': '153.120', 'text': 'them take a deep breath or pausing or'}, {'start': '150.879', 'end': '154.280', 'text': 'coming in really tense and then after'}, {'start': '153.120', 'end': '157.200', 'text': 'the hike'}, {'start': '154.280', 'end': '160.239', 'text': 'feeling the endorphins like I get to see'}, {'start': '157.200', 'end': '162.560', 'text': 'it immediately as far as hike therapy.'}, {'start': '160.239', 'end': '164.640', 'text': 'But I love watching people become their'}, {'start': '162.560', 'end': '168.720', 'text': "best selves. in Eugene. I'm John"}, {'start': '164.640', 'end': '168.720', 'text': "Goodwin. Let's get out there."}]