Kelly

Dear Medicine Wheel staff,

I didn’t know any other way to write to say thank you! I was a student at your program, I was enrolled August 20, 2004 and completed the program October 24, 2004 (I believe). Through my stay at your program I found out who I was. Before going, I had no idea who I was, I based myself off other people and because of that I lost the little girl who I once was. My parents made the best decision and the hardest. I thank them all the time for letting me go to your program (even though I had no choice). I actually know who I am now. It sounds kind of odd, but I have never felt happiness like how I did when I was out in the wilderness. I miss it! I was supposed to break the record but Winter Rose didn’t get the memo. It seems like a dream when I look back on my stay, but yet everything that I learned there from all the staff and clinicians will always stay with me. I have never met people that care so much about me until I attended your program. So I would like to give a special thanks to Calming Dove, RainTracker, Bright Dragon, James (I know you have a wilderness name now but I can’t remember it), Winter Rose, and so many more. I went to Discovery Academy after I graduated and I felt I really didn’t need to be there. Then a week went by and I realized I still had work to do. Your program set the foundation of who I was and DA instilled it in me. I finished DA in 6 months and graduated academically and therapeutically. I don’t think I could have progressed the way I did if I didn’t attend your program. So for everything, thank you, I can probably never thank you enough. You have opened my eyes and changed my life. My family is breaking apart but now I know how to deal with it better than before.

Thank you!
Kelly