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A Personal Note From Dr. Kevin

I wanted to tell each and every member how proud I was on our recent Christmas on the Reservation. We had an astounding 32 people who braved the harsh, -25 temperature and snow (Dr. Bill and crew drove from Utah) to make the trip, and make it the best ever COTR. We also had humanitarian members who didn’t make the trip but did lots of fundraising and gift raising to make COTR possible. There has been a decided shift on the reservation towards health, hope and dignity. What a difference a small number of dedicated DCs (square root of 1%) can make in the lives of these kids and beyond. It’s happening. 2017 will bring in record humanity, income and peace for our members and all the people we serve in our communities, on the reservation and beyond.

Recap From COTR

Hundreds of bags of groceries were passed out, including a Capt Crunch type cereal containing berry crunch -wonder how that got in there? 2 Head Start Programs had the cutest kids! If you could see some of the rough housing that went on! The basketball games with the kids were so much fun and everyone worked up a big sweat, and of course giving out the gifts in all of the schools was so heartwarming! All the teachers loved the book by Dr. Guy, Make Your Life Extraordinary. Our friend on the Reservation, Kenny Smoker, was recently inducted into the  MT Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. To celebrate we had a “cinnamon bun” ceremony to congratulate him! The squeals, the smiles, the ‘how did Santa know” said it all. The clinic at the basketball tournament games was off the hook: how fun was adjusting over 300 people on Thursday night and another 150 on Friday night? The jail visit which included adjustments, naturopathic treatments, massage, energy working, life coaching and handing out of Make Your Life Extraordinary, went great as well! We also had the chance to meet a local woman who took 11 children into her home and provided them with gifts, food, coats, boots, gloves, money and a gift certificate.  A huge shout out goes to Julie at the Frazier school, for making sure everything was taken care of. It was a real pleasure getting to watch Kenny’s  son play in one of the HS basketball games. Man, can that kid play!

 

Mary’s Experience At COTR

This past week I had an amazing opportunity to visit Fort Peck with LHNC for the Christmas on The Reservation event. Going into this trip I had no idea what to expect, but I quickly learned I was in for an experience that will last a lifetime.

For those unfamiliar with Fort Peck, it is located in Poplar, MT. Prior to this trip I had never traveled to Montana before, and had no idea what it may be like. Having grown up in the outskirts of Boston, MA, I was definitely in for a shock. As we were drove to the reservation I was taken aback by how flat the land was. There was one highway, Route 2, and that was the only road you needed to know to get anywhere. I remember finding it odd that the only billboard for miles displayed the message “Don’t do meth even once.” Living in suburbia I am definitely used to seeing massive amounts of billboards that try to sell me things, but not try and suede the reader away from drug usage. This was such a culture shock for me.
We woke up the next day to begin our “elf” duties, distributing presents and food to all the schools in Poplar. This was one of my favorite parts of the trip. All the kids were called down classroom by classroom and you could feel the excitement in the room; they had been anxiously anticipating this day! The joy these kids expressed was infectious. At one point in the day, I was sitting next to a little boy who after opening his present and realizing what it was, hugged his gift and exclaimed that this was the best day of his life! I couldn’t stop smiling when he said that. It was amazing to me how grateful these kids were for a few toys and some food. Having worked at my local YMCA for 6 years, I was used to kids who would  put up a fit if they didn’t receive the newest play station they asked for.

Along with the presents, we also passed out some coats and boots to the teachers so they could give them to the students who needed them the most. One teacher came up to me after we handed the coat to the little boy and said, “We are already so thankful for the presents because for some of these kids, this is the only presents they will receive. But the coats and boots we can’t thank you enough for.” I thought to myself how absurd it was to be thanked for such a necessity like boots and a coat when these kids experience conditions as harsh as -24 degrees – that’s just something they should automatically get. But unfortunately, that isn’t the case for these little kids. They are considered lucky if they have the necessities.

I can’t even explain how much this trip meant to me and how grateful I am to have been a part of it.  Thank you to everyone who has donated to this awesome cause, you really don’t know how much of a difference you are truly making. I am looking forward to Bootcamp to be reunited with the children on the Res!

MM/TNR Seminar in Atlanta January 20 & 21

With Christmas coming quickly at us, it’s easy to go into survival mode just to get through the holidays. Be sure to make arrangements to be at the MM and TNR seminar; don’t wait until the last minute. Make sure to put it on your calendar today! With all the new concepts, updates and upgrades in TNR procedures (accumulated layers of injury, spinal onion diagram, baseline assessments, language of the Millennial and Gen X) you will be Jonsing to implement these in your practice! This is a very exciting time in TNR. If you were at the last TNR seminar and MM and have had a high level H2H, you need to reinforce these concepts. If you didn’t get these concepts yet, you need them in your practice.  They are game changers. I have had members ask about the upcoming MM. Remember, there are only a limited number of tickets available? Call TNR headquarters ASAP if you wish to purchase a ticket. The consensus from the  last MM was that it was mind blowing. Never before have we had so many practical ways of communicating our vision with Millennials and Gen X’s!