A solo here at Back2Basics is an independent camping experience. As a group we go out to an isolated area and are given independent camp sites from one another. We all spend a lot of time together here at residential, so one of the benefits of a solo is getting to spend time alone away from one another.
As drug addicts, most of us don’t like the way we feel on the inside, whether that’s our emotions or our self-esteem. So there is a lot of therapeutic benefit in being alone left to our thoughts. It makes us have to get to a place of learning to be comfortable with ourselves. It is also a time to work on therapeutic assignments, step work and contemplate life.
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Explore What We Can Do →On my last solo I had a spiritual experience which is common among us. When you take the drugs and alcohol away and start looking at yourself you open yourself up to experience all of these different things that I was completely closed off from when I was using. So I definitely fall into the category of not being comfortable alone and in my own head. I also had a massive amount of assignments and work to do out there yet the second I was set up and alone my thoughts began to race and all I wanted to do was go to sleep. So even though I knew how much work I had I laid down and dozed off for a few minutes before a bug landed on my nose. Now my tent is closed and zipped up, so I mange to kill the bug and close my eyes again. About another minute later another bug is buzzing around my face and I swat him down and try again, but another bug and another kept bothering me. Finally it dawned on me this is nature or my higher power trying to guide me to do whats best for me. Now the old me would have just said oh I’m in the forest and there’s a hole in my tent some where, but through getting sober and working this program, I’ve been able to grasp some of these things constantly happening around me that have not only the potential to guide me, but help me in my life. Things that I have never been in tune with before.
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