Welcome to another
edition of Newstart Now.
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I'll be your host my
name is Ron Giannoni.
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This is a program
where we interview guests
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at the beginning
and during their stay
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here at Newstart
program at Weimar.
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And so our guest
today is Megan Danaio.
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And we have a short
clip we'd like to run by you.
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Can we run that clip now?
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Well, it has to
start eight years ago
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with the drowning
death of my 16 year old son,
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my oldest. And I continued
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deep depression
without medication,
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sought counseling but
it wasn't really helping
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and reached for
alcohol and immersed myself
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in that distorted
behavior of drinking,
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binging and
spiraling out of control.
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It effected the relationship
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with my two other children,
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it's effecting my
marriage. And it was probably
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the last hope that
I have to get well.
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And figure out
why I choose to reach
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for the bottle
instead of reaching out
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to God or to my family.
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I am on a mild antidepressant,
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I am taking
Antabus, so that I absolutely
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do not pick up a
drink, because the drug itself
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is supposed to be
a turbulent spanking
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if you want to call it that.
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And, and I am on also medicine
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to help with the cravings,
the alcohol withdrawals.
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I'm starting to experience
because it's just been
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it's been less than a week
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since I've had my last drink.
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I know that if I put
a 100 percent of myself
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into this program I
am going to come away
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eighteen days from
now with new attitude,
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new wellness and hope that
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there is a wonderful
future out there for me,
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that alcohol is no
longer, in my, yes,
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you know
immediate, you know future,
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I don't need it anymore.
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Megan, that's a tragic story,
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however here you
are, maybe you can tell,
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tell us a little bit
more about what has happened
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now that you're
here, you're at Weimar,
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you've made a
commitment to make a change,
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what changes have happened,
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tell us about
that? I hit a wall,
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Ron at about day five
because I was coming down
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off of all the
medications I was on.
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My body wasn't filled
with alcohol any longer,
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so I had gone through the Detox,
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it wasn't a pleasant
time, sleepless nights,
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adjusting to an
environment where
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you are around strangers
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even though
everyone here is helpful.
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But day five I did hit the wall,
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and realized
okay, now my body is
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on it's own to
repair, to recover
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and to begin that
process of healing.
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So, you look well by the way
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I wanted to say that
when I first saw you,
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you look fantastic.
Thank you, I feel great.
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Are you through that
process now of recuperating
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or healing as you put?
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I've been journaling Ron,
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so I couldn't
pretty much tell you
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what day was the turning point.
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For me it was day
ten and I had done
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quite a bit of
walking during these ten days,
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the first ten days.
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Walking alone sometimes,
walking with other guests.
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But committing
myself to adopting
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all of the ingredients
that this program offers.
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Once that took
hold, once I decided
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to allow myself to take hold of
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those special
ingredients everything clicked.
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And it was just a feeling of
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I have so much more energy,
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life is worth living,
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I know that
tomorrow is a new day,
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I am going to get up
and make it a good one
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because I choose to.
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So I've been equipped
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with not only the healthy food
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that is
delicious to say the least
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I mean it's just
a wonderful food,
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healthy wholesome,
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it's the best thing
that I could possibly
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give my body for nutrition,
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so that combined
with all of the programs,
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lectures, the cooking classes,
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I'm not a cook
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but I'm really
excited about going home
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and starting up my
blender and food processor.
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I'm really
looking forward to it.
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Great, great who do
you feel here at Weimar
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on the staff had
an impact on your,
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your that turning point?
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I can't
specifically say one individual
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because everyone
here has just seemed
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to put themselves
100 percent in my corner.
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And I know that there
are other guests here.
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But I feel that their
attention to my needs,
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my concerns,
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my specific
reasons for being here
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have been met.
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In fact Ron, on one occasion
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Dr. Ing, my physician
could not meet with me.
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And at 7 PM I was
just about ready to go
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into lecture and my
phone rang in my room.
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And it was Dr. Ing calling
from a location out of town
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to check on me
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and to see how
are you doing today?
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Were you able to walk today?
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How's your mood?
And I found that to be
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just you know truly genuinely
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concerned for my well being.
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Yes. When was the last time
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you had a doctor
call you at home,
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let alone at 7'o clock at night?
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Has never
happened, maybe a dentist
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after I've had
maybe a root canal
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but no certainly not,
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it's not, it's
not a common thing.
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Tell us a little bit more about,
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now I know when
you got here you,
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I think you mentioned
in our previous interview
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that you hadn't walk very much
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but how much you doing today,
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I mean you look like
such a picture of health
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I can't believe that this
is the lady that came here
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two weeks ago with
all these problems?
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Well week one, I was
able to walk 72 miles
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on beautiful
trails, in a whole week,
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in the whole
week, oh my goodness,
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I bought that
pedometer from the Weimar store
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and kept track of each step.
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And that
translated into 72 miles.
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Week two,
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my energy level
was really picking up
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because of all the healthy foods
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and I walked 92
miles. Oh my goodness.
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So, probably by the
conclusion of the program,
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I will have walked a
little short of 200 miles.
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That's fantastic. So yeah.
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What are your,
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are you been in
touch with your husband,
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does he know
about all the changes,
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is he excited this at least?
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One of the
benefits of this program
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has been the ability
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for family to come and interact.
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My husband has
come on two occasions,
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he, this last
occasion he spent the night,
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so he was able to go through
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about twenty four
hours of the program with me.
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And upon his
leaving we were standing,
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I was outside of the car
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and he was just looking at me
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and I said well bye
honey and I'll see you soon.
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And he just
continued to look at me,
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and he said honey,
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you look so happy
and healthy and young.
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I haven't heard
him compliment me
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like that Ron in
a very long time.
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I know I was a big
disappointment to him,
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yes, but this program
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has really
allowed me to think about
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my relationships
not only with my husband
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but with my other two children
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and my immediate family.
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And how much they've missed me
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because I have not been myself.
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Wow, so well put, I know that
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you are gonna be an
asset to your family.
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In fact I know that
before you even got here,
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but now you've got
something that you know
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that you can give back
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and I know that you'll
continue on the program.
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And it's so
wonderful to see you,
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you're just glowing. Thank you.
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And I am happy to
be a part of that.
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I have really never
felt better, really.
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Great, again Megan,
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thank you so
much for joining us.
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Thank you for
sharing your testimony
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with our audience
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and with us here in the studio.
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And thank you
folks, and we'll return
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a little bit
where we're gonna have
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an exciting
meeting with our Chaplin.
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So don't go away,
we'll be right back.
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Well, you've done very well.
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Do you have
diabetes, heart disease,
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high blood pressure or
do you weight too much?
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and I'd like to tell you about
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laboratory studies and
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consultations, culinary school
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and an opportunity to
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in the foot
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Welcome back and as I promised
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we have another guest.
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Actually we have Viola with us.
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Thank you for being here Viola
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and perhaps you can just tell us
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a little bit about you,
where you became a Chaplin
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and got your training and such
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and how long have
you been here at Weimar?
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Well, I have been here
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a little over two years
now this past September.
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I began my training
at Loma Linda University
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and the
Chaplin's department there.
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Unfortunately had an accident,
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broke my foot, so had to cease
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and recuperate for a while.
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But continued my
training with Chaplin Healy,
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Sam Healy and received my
certification through him.
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It's been about a
year and half now.
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And that how long does
it takes to be a Chaplin?
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Can anybody be a
Chaplin or is it kind of like
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being a pastor or
something like that?
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Actually I'm asked
that question a lot.
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And I see a
fundamental difference
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in Chaplaincy and
pastoral ministry.
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I think that
pastors maybe Chaplains,
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however my
understanding of Chaplaincy
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is that we minister primarily
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to the person's felt needs.
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Whereas I see a
pastor ministering
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or should I say
doing primarily evangelism.
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Okay, good, so what are your
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other than you Chaplain
or whatever you call it,
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what are your duties
here at the Newstart Program.
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Well, I spend a
large portion of my time
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counseling with Newstart guest.
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And anything else
that you are in charge of?
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Well, from time to time
I also counsel with staff
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and some out
patients. Okay, wonderful.
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Can you give us some examples of
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how people regain
their new lifestyle
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with your assistance?
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Well, I have to
give the large portion of
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the credit to
Jesus Christ. Amen.
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I truly believe that
without the guidance of
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the Holy Spirit
through the ministry of Christ
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I wouldn't be
able to do nothing.
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So my first obligation
is to ask God's direction
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because He reads people's heart
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so I ask Him to read
and then instruct me.
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And I must admit
that I am amazed at myself
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some of the words
that come out of my mouth.
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And the person
responds by saying
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that was just for me.
And it's a reassurance
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for me that it
is from God. Amen.
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Well, that's pretty amazing,
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you'll get these inspirations
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as I would view them,
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can you give us
any specific cases,
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of course without mentioning
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any names and such?
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I think I can
do that, many times
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people come with an emptiness
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and yet there is a desire
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to want to reconnect with God.
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And so I take
that as a sign that
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God is giving me to
give them that guidance.
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And so my first
obligation then is to try myself
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to be founded in
the world of God.
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And to share with
Him God's word to assure
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and reassure them that
there is living vital power
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in the word of God.
And that in utilizing
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that word they
have a great defense.
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I know that Megan
openly said that some
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very magnificent
things took place in her life.
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And in just 14 days so
far that she's been here.
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And how she's
gotten off of alcohol
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and she's looking to
God through different eyes.
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And how her
whole her entire life
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and actually she's
gotten her life back.
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And I know she attributed
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a lot of that
with your guidance.
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And that to me is
proof that it is God,
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because I tell you when
I was taking psychology,
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I remember wondering
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why they had such
challenges themselves.
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Now I understand that
without the grace of God,
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dealing with the human mind
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which is the most
magnificent creation
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that you and I
could ever come in contact
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with without the
guidance of God, we can't.
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But with His help we
can do magnificent things.
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So I feel that
each person that comes
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and requests that
reconnection with God
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by God's grace and with His help
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I'm excited about
helping them along that journey.
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Yes, so what I'm hearing you say
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and correct me
if I am wrong please
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that Newstart that
acronym, that trust in the Lord
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is where you come in, exactly,
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and actually share
that with our guests.
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And do you have
meetings, prayer meetings
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in the morning or
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some sort of
gathering every morning?
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Yes, at 7:45 in the morning,
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we have a fresh start
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right after
breakfast interesting time.
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When sometimes they might,
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especially if they
haven't had their fresh walk,
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be feeling like
taking a fresh nap,
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so by the grace of God
it is my responsibility
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to try and
present encouraging words
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from the throne of
grace to let people feel
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that connection
sense that there is hope.
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They don't have to live
in negative despair-lent
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that they can
actually not just survive
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but live a
vibrant, happy, joyful life.
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So there are two various topics
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I tried to present
that message of trusting God
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and what it results in.
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A life of joy and peace for you.
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Well said, now I understand that
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you also keep in
contact with alumni
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as they come
through the program,
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I heard that you
actually write to folks
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and you call them
and keep in contact
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after the program is over?
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That is true, from time to time
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they request
continuing counseling
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as well as
continual Bible study,
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if a relative dies, I
also try to be there for them.
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Call, express our
sympathy, send a sympathy card,
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just to let them
know we are here.
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And we are praying for you
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before they leave in fact
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I actually take
their prayer requests.
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And every day when I am
having my morning devotions
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I present their names
before the throne of grace.
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An accessory
prayer. That's right.
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Folks, we just have
been speaking with Viola,
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our Chaplin here at
the Newstart Program,
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we wanna thank
you for joining us,
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we hope that you'd
join us again next week
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for an exciting program as well.
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Now I have a scripture
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that I'd like to
read with you, 3 John 2.
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Dear friends, I pray that
you may enjoy good health.
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And that all
may go well with you
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even as your soul
is getting along well.
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God bless you.
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Hi and welcome,
my name is Cathy.
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Today we have
with us Rich Smith.
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Rich is our exercise counselor
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here at Newstart.
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Rich, exercise is important,
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stretch is
important, show me a few things
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that you could teach me today,
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we can teach our audience today.
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Well what we're gonna do Cathy
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is that we're gonna
go through the routine.
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Okay. I call it the
Newstart morning stretch.
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Okay. And this is gonna be the
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abbreviated version. Great.
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And basically the
stretch is going to be
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involving every
major muscle group,
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starting from the
neck and moving down,
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so it's real systematic,
it's easy to remember.
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Okay, good.
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The first thing we
need to do though is
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we need to get our
breathing, nice and deep.
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And the way that
we can do that is
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to kind of test as we grow older
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we learn how not
to breathe. Yeah.
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This is to teach us how
to breathe correctly again.
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Okay. What you do is
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you put your fingertips together
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and you put your
fingertips right across
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the bottom of your rib cage.
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And you breathe
in through your nose
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and out through
your mouth. Okay.
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As you do that, you
should feel that your fingertips
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come apart and back together.
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Oh, okay. In other words
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your abdomen
will arise and form.
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Okay. Okay, take deep breathe;
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you take several
of those deep breaths.
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The next stretch
that we are going to do
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is called the Elephant Trunk.
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Okay. And what we do on the
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the Elephant Trunk is
we are going to come up
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very high, very
high on your tip toes,
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if you can, if you
don't have ankle problems,
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big deep breathe again.
And your feet are apart,
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you come down and
then you just swing
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your arms back
and forth just like
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your elephant
trunk. While you are down
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there you can take
another big deep breathe
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relaxing the lower
back, just concentrating on
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relaxing the lower
back and the spine,
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okay as we come up
we are going to bend
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our knees
slightly, suck in our stomach
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and then stand up
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that's to help
project the lower back.
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Okay. The second
or the third stretch
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actually is going
to be with the neck.
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Okay, and we're
gonna go ear to shoulder,
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so in this case
we'll go ear to shoulder.
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And sometimes people
get a little mixed up,
00:23:32.52\00:23:34.36
but if you go right
ear to the right shoulder
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then you use your
right hand to gently
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rest not pull on
the top of your head.
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And then you go
to the other side.
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That's true most people pull.
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Now the weight of the
arm is plenty for that,
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yes, okay, by the way
continue to breathe deeply,
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in through the nose,
out through the mouth.
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The next stretch
is chin to chest.
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And by the way these are all,
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these three
we're gonna have three,
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and they have to
do with the neck.
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Chin to chest, down we go,
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we clasp our
hands and gently rests
00:24:05.14\00:24:07.48
our hands on the
back of our head.
00:24:07.49\00:24:09.03
And once again we
go through our count
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and back up again,
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that's the second next stretch.
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Okay. The third next stretch is
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one that doesn't
get done very often.
00:24:16.84\00:24:18.66
But we have done this direction
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and we've done this direction.
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And now we're gonna go at
a forty five degree angle.
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That is the
opposite side of the neck
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so we simply get our hand
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once again we gently rest
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and we will go from
that side to this side.
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So again, you're
just resting the weights,
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just resting that's right,
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we're not
pushing, we're not pulling.
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And can you feel
the opposite muscle?
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Yes, just I get.
Alright, very good.
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Now we are moving down. Okay.
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We're going to do our hands.
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And many people,
many of our guests
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have problems with their
fingers and their wrists.
00:24:52.38\00:24:54.38
Yes. So all you do with this,
00:24:54.39\00:24:55.73
you just get every joint in
00:24:55.74\00:24:58.03
your finger nice and supple.
00:24:58.04\00:24:59.44
The next one is wrist
circles, wrist circles.
00:24:59.77\00:25:03.48
That's important, people
working at desk, computers.
00:25:03.49\00:25:05.54
And then we get our
00:25:05.55\00:25:06.96
fore arm
rotators into the action,
00:25:06.97\00:25:08.49
and we do the exact same things
00:25:08.85\00:25:10.57
you just get
those fingers moving
00:25:10.58\00:25:11.90
and then preferably
the opposite direction
00:25:11.91\00:25:14.64
in your wrist circles.
Alright, the next stretch,
00:25:14.65\00:25:17.44
we're gonna work on our chest
00:25:17.82\00:25:19.02
and the back of our shoulders.
00:25:19.35\00:25:21.53
We come up back and back.
00:25:21.88\00:25:24.81
And back and back, you
have to be very careful,
00:25:26.04\00:25:29.36
don't pull too much, okay,
00:25:29.65\00:25:30.88
this is where
we're working right here,
00:25:30.89\00:25:32.08
so this is the
chest muscle, okay.
00:25:32.09\00:25:33.53
We have done this
side, now we do this side.
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We come straight across
00:25:36.71\00:25:37.91
and a little bit of
snub pull on that, okay.
00:25:38.32\00:25:41.05
And you should feel
the back of your shoulder.
00:25:41.06\00:25:42.68
Yes, yes. Very good
00:25:42.69\00:25:44.38
and then we do both
sides on that. Okay.
00:25:44.39\00:25:47.24
The next stretch is
going to be shoulder rolls
00:25:47.57\00:25:50.21
and it's really more of a
00:25:50.22\00:25:51.35
developmental
stretch than anything, okay.
00:25:51.36\00:25:54.33
And you do very
large, large circles.
00:25:54.34\00:25:57.60
You go a number of
times in that direction
00:25:57.61\00:26:00.05
then you reverse that exactly.
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This is something that
you can even do at desk
00:26:03.00\00:26:04.24
if you're sitting at
desk at work or something.
00:26:04.25\00:26:05.70
Some of these,
that's the upper body,
00:26:05.71\00:26:06.87
you really can do these
things on your desk, okay.
00:26:06.88\00:26:08.19
Okay, the next
one is going to be,
00:26:08.20\00:26:10.03
we are still working
on our shoulders, okay,
00:26:10.49\00:26:12.10
we're gonna be going
out with our palms up,
00:26:12.11\00:26:14.59
okay, you can do your,
do with these palms down
00:26:14.60\00:26:16.83
but once again you are getting
00:26:16.84\00:26:18.17
your fore arms into
the action here. Okay.
00:26:18.18\00:26:19.75
So palms up this is called
00:26:20.11\00:26:21.66
the little circles
to big circles. Okay.
00:26:21.67\00:26:23.28
This is exactly what
it is, so around we go,
00:26:23.29\00:26:26.06
so as we go, our
arms are getting larger
00:26:26.07\00:26:30.06
and larger circles
pretty soon it's like this.
00:26:30.07\00:26:32.63
Move forward. And as you can see
00:26:32.64\00:26:34.59
all of our
rotators of our shoulders
00:26:34.60\00:26:37.35
are getting worked now, okay.
00:26:37.36\00:26:39.41
And the you go the
opposite direction.
00:26:39.76\00:26:41.57
Opposite
direction. So this is great,
00:26:41.58\00:26:43.14
so for more information
00:26:43.50\00:26:44.81
about more the
rest of these exercises
00:26:44.82\00:26:46.84
and how you can
get more stretches.
00:26:46.85\00:26:48.54
And for your body at
home, visit our website
00:26:48.87\00:26:51.79
at newstart.com.
00:26:51.80\00:26:53.02
And there will be a
whole list of exercises
00:26:53.35\00:26:55.05
and stretches that
you could do at home.
00:26:55.06\00:26:56.63
Thank for joining
us and thank you Rich
00:26:57.00\00:26:58.44
for being with us
and showing this to us.
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Hi, I hope you have enjoyed
00:27:06.90\00:27:07.95
as much as I have this
edition of Newstart Now.
00:27:07.96\00:27:10.82
I am Jim Brackett,
Executive Vice President
00:27:11.13\00:27:13.56
here at the Weimar Center.
00:27:13.57\00:27:15.02
I'll take just a
moment to give you an idea of
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some of the wonderful resources
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we have here at the bookstore,
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such as Dr. Nedley's
book called Proof Positive.
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Now in addition
to Dr. Nedley's book
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he has a series on
depression recovery.
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We have the
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on DVD by our
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