Heidi's Story - Anasazi Foundation Alumni

Heidi, a former Young Walker at Anasazi Foundation, talks about her experience on the Anasazi trail and how it helped her heal.
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TRANSCRIPT of Video:
My name is Heidi Grunander and my Trail Name is "White Summer Eagle." I was on the trail about 11 years ago, almost to the day.
My Anasazi experience has been the world to me. And without having the tools and the skills that I learned there, I probably wouldn't be alive today.
She came back from Anasazi and went to school at USU and got a degree-a Bachelors-and she got married and she has a wonderful family now and by "a wonderful family," she has three kids, 5, 3, and 1. She is going to school, currently, for another Bachelors. She works a job, one is two nights a week. She helps-she sees a need in the neighborhood and she helps-she teaches the neighbor kids English, little Hispanic kids that won't learn it until they get to school and have this huge disadvantage.
After Anasazi, for the first few years I kept thinking my life was going to dive bomb again. I thought: 'When's it just going to go wrong again and I'm going to, you know, wanna kill myself or cut on myself, or whatever?' And it never happened. Because I was trying to live correct principles. And there's, there's a rule if you're trying to live right things will go a little bit better for ya than if you're living wrong, you know?
She was not a happy person before. And growing up, I knew this, this star, you know. She honestly, could light up anything and it would be so fun and she changed and it wasn't for the better. And then she had the opportunity to go to Anasazi and I'm so grateful for that because she came back and she could handle life and she could smile and she shined-she would just shine and it was amazing.
When I look at my arms and I see the scars on my arms, where I used to cut on myself and I kind of dread the day that they ask the question: 'Mom, why do you have scars all over your arms?' And, I think I'm going to tell them the truth. That I was having a rough time and I didn't really understand love or life and I will tell them that I went to a wonderful program that helped me be who I am. Cause without that I wouldn't be happy and now I am. I'm lucky. Cause I know lots of kids don't get to go to programs like Anasazi.
And that's taught me another thing, is whenever I see a kid who's a loner-cause there's some neighborhood kids that are loners and their parents don't care. I always try to have them into my house and I talk to them because that's so important. I don't want people to feel like loners cause I know how it is. And I just want to help them as much as I can.
I've seen her and her relationship with her husband and actually it's given me hope there is a happy marriage that kids can grow up with love.
I'm trying, so desperately, to teach my kids that it's about love and about inclusion, instead of exclusion. And it's about communicating and loving each other. Cause I've learned that love is way more powerful than anything else.
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