When you love an addict, it is a painful and confusing journey. The effects of addiction are like a stone being thrown into a pond. There seems to be no ending to the spillover of pain, drama, intensity and insanity. The whole family system is imprinted, and we all...
Dear Families, On 1/4/19, five of us started a Wilderness First Responders (WFR) course with the Flagstaff Field Institute. This was a 9-hour a day course for 9 days with two 14-hour days thrown in. All five of us have been especially stoked on the...
Dear Families, This past weekend we were able to escape the cold and drive down to the Arizona Hot Springs. On our way down, we stopped by the Hoover Dam. After investigating the architectural masterpiece, we finished our drive and prepared for a short hike through...
One of the keys to our success in recovery is rebuilding healthy family relationships. Back2Basics has recognized this and as a core component of the program, B2B hosts a Family Weekend. This is an event that occurs essentially when a client has been in the B2B...
We’ve hit the ground running into 2019! Since the holidays, it’s been one cool adventure after another. This last week we decided to advantage of the beautiful snow here in Flagstaff and we hit the slopes at Arizona Snowbowl and we also did some Cross...
Dear families, This week we had quite an adventure! On Sunday we all went to the gym and played some rousing games of volleyball. It got very competitive, but we all got along and had fun. After the gym we tackled the rock-climbing gym where we pushed our limits on...
We highly recommend the B2B program that our 19 year-old son attended. We feel like it’s been effective for several reasons. First, the length of the program gave our son a chance to live clean and without electronics for a six-month period. He made connections with...
Not knowing what to expect for our weeklong trip over Christmas, we took off Sunday morning towards Tucson and by the afternoon were sending Picacho Peak. A four-mile round trip hike with guide cables to help us up steep terrain and ending with a spectacular view of...
This last week was the Christmas weeklong and it was a blast. On the first day we hiked up Picaho Peak. It wasn’t strenuous but there were some very steep parts. On Christmas eve we went to Cochise Stronghold and did a white elephant gift exchange. I got a “Stranger...
This last week we explored Southern Arizona. This trip was a weeklong over Christmas, and it was definitely an emotional time away. This was my first Christmas not with my family, so I thought it was going to be really tough. We left on Sunday the 23rd and headed...