Re-Creation Retreat: Tipping Away From Texas

Imagine everything that you know being ripped away from you all in the period of one day. Moving to Utah from Texas was a big change but moving from a house next to your school surrounded by your friends and daily experiencing social media and constant contact to an all girls therapeutic home with no electronics and not knowing anyone. That was a huge change for a sixteen about to be seventeen year old.

Going to Re-Creation Retreat was a life changer for me. I don't see how anyone could not be changed by doing something like this. Now let me just say that before you refuse to listen I am no psycho. RCR classifies itself as a "leadership academy" we don't sit around in a padded room screaming in a straight jacket. We do have therapy once a week but this is hardly a psych ward. When I got to RCR I thought that I was going to be surrounded by psychopaths everyday but when I got here I realized that the girls here are a lot healthier than a lot of the people that I was around at home. Without the outside distraction of phones and being surrounded by harmful substances everyone here is extremely well off. My therapist likes to say that he would
I really am going to use my knowledge that I gained from this program to better the world. Speaking up about things that people don't want to talk about to better our nation. My life will no longer be filled with the things that slowly but surely dragged me to the bottom of my life. I am going to be a successful lawyer and in this touch every person that I come into contact with, with the knowledge that I gained from this extremely life changing experience. I plan on entering a college that would like to be a part of changing the world for good and I will step into my future, the next step in my life being college knowing that doing so I will be doing it in order to reach the greater purpose that I have set myself to