Help Me Rescue My Life of Service
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On July 21, 2018, I lost my “temporary” cab driving job due to an accident. I never made enough money to accumulate any significant savings, so I am now in a financial crisis, in danger of eviction, utilities shutoff, default on debts, and legal action, as well as interruption in my preparation for a better career that can make me self-sufficient, a help to my young sons, and a contributing member of society. I have almost no Social Security and will have to work for the rest of my life.
While no one can do EVERYTHING, EVERYONE can do SOMETHING! So I beg everyone to contribute SOMETHING to help me out of this hole, even if it's just equivalent to the cost of a night on the town or of a restaurant meal. Every little bit helps, especially if everyone chips in, instead of looking the other way.
I am trying to see this setback as the Universe pushing me toward fulfilling my true life purpose: offering my services to the world as a healer and chiropractor specializing in functional medicine (Systems Health Care). But I need some financial assistance to survive while I focus on updating and upgrading my professional skills and developing a business plan, before I can in turn offer my healing skills to the world. I am so close to achieving that goal. For that, I am resurrecting my dormant GoFundMe campaign from 2014.
And for those adhering to the rugged individualist myth, who want to spout "Get a job!" as a solution, I say Thank you, I already have a part-time job doing phonebanking for $12.50 an hour, but that's not a solution to my current crisis. Meanwhile, I am also looking for a better job.
MY GOAL: My hope and dream is to establish my first successful chiropractic practice by New Years Day 2019, and at last have a life I love, a life of making a positive difference in the world, a life not only of well-being for myself and my family, but also of well-being for those whom I would serve with my holistic healing skills, particularly those chronic sufferers who have not found help through conventional methods.
To achieve this goal, I have set a GoFundMe monetary goal of $15,000 to cover known expenses as well as anticipated but unknown costs of getting a small practice underway. I need to raise at least $3000 by the end of August 2018 though to keep me from going down the drain in my immediate crisis. The remaining $12,000 can come gradually later. Disregard the $1303 received in my original campaign and now long gone, i.e. when I achieve my new initial $3000 goal, the campaign total will show as $4303, not $3000.
MY STORY: I am Henry Karl Scherr, a licensed but not-in-practice chiropractor in St. Louis, Missouri. I came here from Washington DC after a brief Federal Government career in order to attend chiropractic college, because I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life. After being awed by such chiropractic-based techniques as Touch For Health and Applied Kinesiology, I had been inspired by the prospect of bringing amazing healing results to people suffering from old injuries and chronic health problems that had not benefited from mainstream health care.
Although I have long had my chiropractic credentials, I have been struggling on and off for decades to establish a viable chiropractic practice. I had put my career on a back burner and served as a stay-at-home dad for 10 years while we focused on my then-wife's professional career. At the end of that decade, when it was time to shift the focus onto my own career development, my wife filed for divorce and ever since, I have been stranded economically. I took on working as a cab driver in 2006 as a “temporary” measure, but soon I found myself getting stuck in a rut and my income in a downward spiral year by year.
What's more, in my cab, I was frequently driving medical passengers who suffered from various disabilities and chronic ailments that were not getting any better. And it dawned on me, I could HELP these people! I was frustrated wasting my education driving a cab, which not only neglected these people's healing needs, but also kept me in poverty, barely able to meet my financial demands.
Except for those who already have had a foot in the professional door because of family or friends who are established chiropractors, most chiropractors start a practice with the support of a sizable bank loan (generally suggested: enough to cover 2 years of living expenses as well) or a working spouse. Since I have none of those resources, I turn to the generous hearts out there to help turn this dream into a reality.
MY PLAN: I intend to upgrade my chiropractic skills with training in the principal healing system that I plan to offer, called Systems Health Care (SHC). It's a greatly updated and systematized version of the related techniques that inspired me to go into the chiropractic profession in the first place back in 1979: Touch for Health and Applied Kinesiology. Systems Health Care, and one of its protocols Injury Recall Technique, are the first healing treatments of any kind that I have experienced as a patient, that have brought about rapid improvement of my own health complaints. I like empirical evidence for whatever I want to offer to others, and I am totally convinced about the effectiveness of Systems Health Care.
For an explanation of Systems Health Care and an amazing demonstration of Injury Recall Technique, see the long video by the developer Dr. Steven Gangemi at https://systemshealthcare.net/videos/ entitled “A very detailed demo of the SHC technique for finding injuries.” Note how he finds the underlying causes of the injury pattern to be in areas OTHER THAN the site of the pain. Not the conventional view!
I will build my practice by initially operating on a house call basis. When I have a sufficient patient base that makes house calls no longer practical, I will set up an office. A noted spiritual teacher recently taught me to give away to those in need of them, those very things I had felt deprived of in my own life. Thus, once my practice is profitable, there are two, possibly three more things I want to offer to my larger community, inspired by some of my own past struggles:
· Because of my own longstanding plight of not affording self-care (in my case, dental and vision care), I intend to make my skills available to a number of people who otherwise could not afford the treatment they need. This might take the form of a sliding-scale status for certain patients as well as a periodic free or donation-based clinic day at a church.
· Because I never was able to get the professional mentorship I needed and sought, I intend to establish several associate doctor positions in my clinic for new graduates—however, not the “hotshot” graduates who will make it just fine on their own, but rather those who are not in the limelight and might need a helping hand all the more. This could also apply to a not-so-recent graduate who is still struggling professionally, as has been my case.
· When I have sufficient disposable income, I want to help a few people financially to move closer to achieving their life purpose, especially when the only thing that stands in their way is just enough money. I want to identify those people who are struggling as I have struggled, to get a “leg up.” I already have some people in mind.
· When my practice becomes REALLY, really profitable, to the point I have funds to invest in other ventures, I intend to set up one or more businesses on a Quaker business model (read Deborah Cadbury's Chocolate Wars), offering the world a model of business where the primary objectives are the product or service offered, not the profit to stockholders—along with a living wage and decent life for the workers. If the workers cannot afford the product or service they are providing, then they are not being paid enough.
I am setting my GoFundMe monetary goal at $15,000, knowing that may be a totally naïve estimate and too low to achieve all my goals. So as time and experience progress, I will adjust my fundraising goal accordingly. These other costs (beyond the training and support I described) will include such things as additional professional equipment, practice management forms and software, office supplies and equipment (including computers), maintenance of my chiropractic (and other) licenses, an inventory of nutritional supplements, and possibly part of my interim living expenses until my practice becomes sufficiently profitable.
Blessings to all who will support this venture! Blessings on you for making it possible for me at last to properly provide for my children as well as for myself. Blessings on you for empowering me to help those who are suffering physically and emotionally—and even economically. And may your generosity be returned to you tenfold.
While no one can do EVERYTHING, EVERYONE can do SOMETHING! So I beg everyone to contribute SOMETHING to help me out of this hole, even if it's just equivalent to the cost of a night on the town or of a restaurant meal. Every little bit helps, especially if everyone chips in, instead of looking the other way.
I am trying to see this setback as the Universe pushing me toward fulfilling my true life purpose: offering my services to the world as a healer and chiropractor specializing in functional medicine (Systems Health Care). But I need some financial assistance to survive while I focus on updating and upgrading my professional skills and developing a business plan, before I can in turn offer my healing skills to the world. I am so close to achieving that goal. For that, I am resurrecting my dormant GoFundMe campaign from 2014.
And for those adhering to the rugged individualist myth, who want to spout "Get a job!" as a solution, I say Thank you, I already have a part-time job doing phonebanking for $12.50 an hour, but that's not a solution to my current crisis. Meanwhile, I am also looking for a better job.
MY GOAL: My hope and dream is to establish my first successful chiropractic practice by New Years Day 2019, and at last have a life I love, a life of making a positive difference in the world, a life not only of well-being for myself and my family, but also of well-being for those whom I would serve with my holistic healing skills, particularly those chronic sufferers who have not found help through conventional methods.
To achieve this goal, I have set a GoFundMe monetary goal of $15,000 to cover known expenses as well as anticipated but unknown costs of getting a small practice underway. I need to raise at least $3000 by the end of August 2018 though to keep me from going down the drain in my immediate crisis. The remaining $12,000 can come gradually later. Disregard the $1303 received in my original campaign and now long gone, i.e. when I achieve my new initial $3000 goal, the campaign total will show as $4303, not $3000.
MY STORY: I am Henry Karl Scherr, a licensed but not-in-practice chiropractor in St. Louis, Missouri. I came here from Washington DC after a brief Federal Government career in order to attend chiropractic college, because I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life. After being awed by such chiropractic-based techniques as Touch For Health and Applied Kinesiology, I had been inspired by the prospect of bringing amazing healing results to people suffering from old injuries and chronic health problems that had not benefited from mainstream health care.
Although I have long had my chiropractic credentials, I have been struggling on and off for decades to establish a viable chiropractic practice. I had put my career on a back burner and served as a stay-at-home dad for 10 years while we focused on my then-wife's professional career. At the end of that decade, when it was time to shift the focus onto my own career development, my wife filed for divorce and ever since, I have been stranded economically. I took on working as a cab driver in 2006 as a “temporary” measure, but soon I found myself getting stuck in a rut and my income in a downward spiral year by year.
What's more, in my cab, I was frequently driving medical passengers who suffered from various disabilities and chronic ailments that were not getting any better. And it dawned on me, I could HELP these people! I was frustrated wasting my education driving a cab, which not only neglected these people's healing needs, but also kept me in poverty, barely able to meet my financial demands.
Except for those who already have had a foot in the professional door because of family or friends who are established chiropractors, most chiropractors start a practice with the support of a sizable bank loan (generally suggested: enough to cover 2 years of living expenses as well) or a working spouse. Since I have none of those resources, I turn to the generous hearts out there to help turn this dream into a reality.
MY PLAN: I intend to upgrade my chiropractic skills with training in the principal healing system that I plan to offer, called Systems Health Care (SHC). It's a greatly updated and systematized version of the related techniques that inspired me to go into the chiropractic profession in the first place back in 1979: Touch for Health and Applied Kinesiology. Systems Health Care, and one of its protocols Injury Recall Technique, are the first healing treatments of any kind that I have experienced as a patient, that have brought about rapid improvement of my own health complaints. I like empirical evidence for whatever I want to offer to others, and I am totally convinced about the effectiveness of Systems Health Care.
For an explanation of Systems Health Care and an amazing demonstration of Injury Recall Technique, see the long video by the developer Dr. Steven Gangemi at https://systemshealthcare.net/videos/ entitled “A very detailed demo of the SHC technique for finding injuries.” Note how he finds the underlying causes of the injury pattern to be in areas OTHER THAN the site of the pain. Not the conventional view!
I will build my practice by initially operating on a house call basis. When I have a sufficient patient base that makes house calls no longer practical, I will set up an office. A noted spiritual teacher recently taught me to give away to those in need of them, those very things I had felt deprived of in my own life. Thus, once my practice is profitable, there are two, possibly three more things I want to offer to my larger community, inspired by some of my own past struggles:
· Because of my own longstanding plight of not affording self-care (in my case, dental and vision care), I intend to make my skills available to a number of people who otherwise could not afford the treatment they need. This might take the form of a sliding-scale status for certain patients as well as a periodic free or donation-based clinic day at a church.
· Because I never was able to get the professional mentorship I needed and sought, I intend to establish several associate doctor positions in my clinic for new graduates—however, not the “hotshot” graduates who will make it just fine on their own, but rather those who are not in the limelight and might need a helping hand all the more. This could also apply to a not-so-recent graduate who is still struggling professionally, as has been my case.
· When I have sufficient disposable income, I want to help a few people financially to move closer to achieving their life purpose, especially when the only thing that stands in their way is just enough money. I want to identify those people who are struggling as I have struggled, to get a “leg up.” I already have some people in mind.
· When my practice becomes REALLY, really profitable, to the point I have funds to invest in other ventures, I intend to set up one or more businesses on a Quaker business model (read Deborah Cadbury's Chocolate Wars), offering the world a model of business where the primary objectives are the product or service offered, not the profit to stockholders—along with a living wage and decent life for the workers. If the workers cannot afford the product or service they are providing, then they are not being paid enough.
I am setting my GoFundMe monetary goal at $15,000, knowing that may be a totally naïve estimate and too low to achieve all my goals. So as time and experience progress, I will adjust my fundraising goal accordingly. These other costs (beyond the training and support I described) will include such things as additional professional equipment, practice management forms and software, office supplies and equipment (including computers), maintenance of my chiropractic (and other) licenses, an inventory of nutritional supplements, and possibly part of my interim living expenses until my practice becomes sufficiently profitable.
Blessings to all who will support this venture! Blessings on you for making it possible for me at last to properly provide for my children as well as for myself. Blessings on you for empowering me to help those who are suffering physically and emotionally—and even economically. And may your generosity be returned to you tenfold.
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Henry Karl Scherr
Organizer
Chesterfield, MO