Hello, hello and welcome to the Borealis

experience. I'm your host Aurora, life coach and companion

on this beautiful journey called life. I hope you're doing good.

I hope you feel loved and seen and understood, I hope you feel

a strong sense of purpose. And if right now, you don't fear any

of this, you feel stuck, you feel lost, you feel confused,

you feel uncertain.

Don't despair, you are not alone. And with my podcast, I'm

hoping to bring you time for reflection, time for connection,

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excuse me. And I'd be happy to connect wherever you are in this

world because we can also meet over zoom or Skype or whatever

is out there to connect on long distance, right. Okay, let's

dive into today's episode. Today is September 30 2023. National

Day of truth and reconciliation. And what I want to do today is

just share my two cents on what I feel and think about this very

important day. It's it's about time. It's about time that

Canada looks at their history, and uncovers horrific truth. You

know, I, I was born and raised in Germany, and we all know

about Canadian history is on a superficial level. And when I

first got to Canada, I was very, very surprised if not even

shocked to witness that people would point at the indigenous

community and tell me that they are a lost cause that they are

quitters addicts, homeless people who don't, you know, can

keep their shit together. And I just thought to myself, What?

What is going on? Like, don't you make the connection that

this is a reaction, a response to the trauma that has happened?

Not too long ago. So it was really interesting for me to see

that basically most Canadians and of course not all, but most

Canadians were not really exposed to the history and the

horrific events that that took place with residential schools.

And that was very odd to me because you have to know that in

Germany, young children, I want to say I was between 10 or 14

years old. We were sent on field trips to concentration camps

where they would show us videos and full on me Movies about what

was happening throughout the Holocaust and World War Two. And

as a young child's, I can only see how, yeah, that affected me

on a very, very deeply level and even, you know, traumatized me.

But it traumatized me in a way that I was now aware of my

country's history, aware of what human beings are capable of

doing. And as a whole, when when young kids, or people in general

are being exposed to truth, like that, it does something to you,

there's no way that you are unaffected by it. And what comes

out of it for me is that you want to understand you want a

question you want to ask so many questions, you want to have so

much compassion and empathy, and understanding. And less othering

is happening, I want to say, once we know and understand that

the people who struggle with addiction, depression,

homelessness that there is a story to it, they were not born

that way. And I can only wish for Canada, that they will

become so radically truthful and recognize what happened. And

realize that this is the only way to have change happening.

And healing happening. Right, we can keep running around and

telling the indigenous people that they need to heal faster,

and they need to, you know, get their shit together. We need to

first go back to the darkness, we need to first fully

acknowledge and grasp Canada's dark history. Before we can move

on together as a society and heal together. There is no way

around. There is absolutely no way around. And I'm so very

grateful. You know, as a youngster, I complain that this

is so much with World War Two and everything is about World

War Two. But now I'm so endlessly grateful that my

school system put me through that. Because I can see now when

I travel to other countries, I want to know the full story. And

I want to only see, you know the pretty and witty stuff that is

shiny and glittery, and interesting and beautiful beach

here and nice hotel there. No, I'm not interested in that. I

want to know about the history. I want to know what those people

went through in order to be where they are today. And when

it comes to Canada I want to say as a whole there is I don't know

how to say this without offending anybody. But there is

this superficiality when it comes to connections. When it

comes to conversations when it comes to talking about history

and darkness when it comes to embracing shame and guilt as a

whole. There's this toxic positivity and toxic beauty I

want to say right that beauty of fake lashes and lip face lifting

and Botox and vitamin cures. But underneath the struggle

underneath and the darkness that every single person is carrying

in their soul and their heart is not being allowed to be

addressed openly. So a lot of people struggle with feeling

depressed and lonely and isolated and repressed and

misunderstood, because as a society, it is not being

normalized, to not be okay. Right? When you look at

countries like Italy, Portugal and Spain, where it's very

passionate countries with a lot of screaming and we're

flowerpots are being thrown off the balconies, and anger is

being expressed in our, you know, healthy way I want to say.

And sadness is being expressed grief is being processed. And

here in North America, I feel Yeah, we acknowledge the anger,

but we suppress it right away, we acknowledged sadness and

grief, but we distract ourselves right away. And we don't give

room for these intense feelings that are a natural part of human

being a human being. So I don't want to say that I I've found

the solution to alleviating suffering and human beings and

how to make North America a better place. But I'm just so so

hopeful that now that all this dark history about Canada comes

up, that we can actually start the healing process. Everything

that happened before was just living in denial of it and

wondering why some people struggle more than others, and

pointing the finger at symptoms instead of addressing the root

cause. And I feel the root cause is not acknowledging what has

happened in the past. So hashtag orange shirt day, hashtag,

National Day of truth and reconciliation, hashtag

indigenous lives matter. Hashtag community love and support. And,

yeah, hopefully, hopefully, I can be just, you know, have

little support or big support to this movement to this change

that's coming up. Because yeah, I still feel like an immigrant

and I, I wouldn't want to put myself in a position where

people think, Oh, she knows how to heal us and how to go about

it. I want. I want to be told what I can do to help. And I

want to ask questions, and I want to be proactive about it

and not just passive. But, yeah, I want to be humble and curious.

And I want to find out more and if you happen to be doing stuff

already. That is helping this movement. If you are engaged in

any community events or support. I'd love to hear from you. I'd

love to hear your thoughts. And yeah, I'm excited for what's to

come, even though it might get messy, but it's for the better.

Alright, take really good care of yourself. And I'll be out

there very soon.