Our Mission

Hike2Heal's mission is to help women & girls achieve full recovery from mental health illnesses - specifically depression, anxiety, disordered eating, and eating disorders - through outdoor experiences. We believe that the outdoors, and outdoor exercise, has the potential to help girls battling these issues:

Redefine their identity (outside of mental illness / ED)
Cultivate a healthier relationship with their body & mind
Find a community of like-minded women & role models to support them in the recovery process

Through our program, we hope to:

Help minorities gain access to the outdoors that they would not have otherwise due to financial or other constraints, and promote diversity in the outdoors
Promote ideals of sustainability and responsibility in our interactions with the outdoors
Teach and exemplify healthy relationships with food, exercise, body, & mind