Name: Canada’s first lady tackles covid-19 and mental health
Uploaded: 2020-07-08
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Description: Ms. Grégoire Trudeau leapt into action to help others suffering from the mental health repercussions of the coronavirus.

Ms. Grégoire Trudeau leapt into action to help others suffering from the mental health repercussions of the coronavirus.

Canada’s first lady tackles covid-19 and mental health

Health

it's been a you know, watch what a journey we have all been on in Canada, but all across the world, in different ways. Um, more than a year ago. And, you know, I think that on you can only teach others by experience and because I suffered from eating disorders when I was a teenager and I worked hard to to heal and to understand where the anxiety and the fear was coming from Through the years, I have developed tools myself and experiences and met people, uh, from all parts of the world who have taught me so much. And I think that it's so important when it comes to mental health And when it comes to our life to always remain a student of life, to always never think that we process the truth to see obviously to truck the fact of the clients of the research but to always be open enough to hearing another perspective of someone else's life. So, in this podcast, um, I was so happy to be able to, you know, share it during Mental Health Awareness Awareness Week, which was always the plan, and to be there for people who were truly literally suffering from a trauma during these challenging times. I have always shared Ariana with other people, but I think that we're all one trauma away from one another, meaning one life event happened. One traumatic event, you know, comes up in your life. You don't know where you can find yourself the next day and look at what's happening now. We're all in one very similar trauma facing this this virus and this pandemic. Therefore, not only have we always thought, you know, we have to redefine normal. We have to define our world instead of the world is fining us. But now normal has been redefined for us. So not only do we have to adapt to this new situation, but we have to use our creativity and our openness of mind and hearts as well to be able to connect with one another and actually tell ourselves our own stories and our own trauma and what we've been through because we realized at the end of the day that we're all connected through our trauma. So therefore we're connected towards more happiness together by sharing what's going on and keeping things real. And I love the fact that you actually believe that we can become more resilient. Some people think you are born resilient or you are not resilient. But you really believe and I completely agree that we can develop resilience, which makes it easier for us to deal with whatever life brings us. I agree with you. I think that by sharing our stories and by keeping things open and the cards on the table, we tend to build and to refer to to each other with more ease with more once. And we understand that we are so much similar as human beings as we are on a like The thing is that we still have to look at the science and the research and the data. And when it comes to mental health, it's absolutely true. It's been proven that resilience is not simply a quality that you're born with, therefore, and this is one thing that I've learned through the process by talking to experts, which is so interesting is that you should develop resilience because resilience means that you're able to reach out to people around you to tell your story, to have support around you, the more you know human beings aren't made to live in isolation. And what are we noticing now that when that happens, our mental health suffer. So this is a proof to write to, to show us that we need one another, we need one another, and resilience is about seeking for one another and leaning in on one another.