How the healing power of nature inspires resolve in recovery Sync Recovery Community offers outdoor adventures to guide those in recovery towards invigorating and fun activities that are drug-free. Marion Callahan, Bucks County Courier Times Published 2:09 am UTC May. 6, 2021 Bathed in the orange glow of the setting sun, Jose Ortiz-Nieves gazed at the horizon and then closed his eyes, taking in the cool mountain air from atop the observation deck of the Trexler Nature Preserve. Under a sky ablaze in color, the 31-year-old felt free from his past anchored in addiction. A weight was lifted. The world from those heights, he said, was so much bigger than the Allentown neighborhood where he'd been running the streets since he was 15.