May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - CR-EX. (GINDIN) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
S.E. TAYLOR - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
D.M. KNOL - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
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we're having soup on Wednesday, can you help with helping
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other people learn how to make bannock and stuff?
She
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starts feeling good.
All of a sudden she's in parenting,
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she's going to my addiction support program that's in the
same building, because they're all there to become a family
and they become resources for themselves. It's amazing how
resilient and how much skills they really have if they
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start believing in themselves.
But if people keep saying,
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you can't do this right, you don't do this right, you're
not doing this right, you're just kind of boom, boom, boom,
coming lower and lower instead of being six foot tall
you're now four foot tall, because they've just told you
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you can't do anything right.
So where do you start going
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from there?
We work by, hey, you do this really good, can
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you help with that. And you see that you're productive and
you're doing something good, you know what, you work on
your own other things because you just want to keep doing
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better.
Somebody believes in you and you can start
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believing in yourself.
experience.
Because I know that's my own
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I didn't go back to school until I was in my late
thirties because I started volunteering all of a sudden.
All I was, was a waitress, minimum wage, before then but I
started volunteering because of my son and started getting
involved, and somebody started believing that I could do a
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