Aurora Eggert Coaching

Come to the glorious experience. I’m your host. And

I’m very happy to be spending some time with you today. Help

you unwind, relax, reflect about your life and yourself, the

better we know ourselves, the stronger we can be out there in

this world, the more compassion and support we can show for our

people

out there.

So today I want to talk about mental health for men. Why do I

have episodes? For men only? I was part of an interview the

other day. And the lady, a very sharp, intelligent, kind lady

asked me, for me out of the blue. Why do you make a

difference between mental health between men and women? Why is

there a difference? And if you are really focusing on men, why

is that? And don’t you feel like you’re letting the ladies down?

And I really didn’t have an answer there. I just knew that

this is the direction I’m feeling drawn to. In the past, I

had an Internet TV show with guests. And the interviews I had

with these guys were incredible. They were sharing their story

about trauma and depression and heartbreak. And the feedback I

got was so incredible. And like we were able to help so many

people out there to feel less lonely with their story and feel

supported and better about themselves. And when I came to

Canada, I decided to study agriculture. And I become very,

very interested in prison farming and prison ag

agriculture and gardening for veterans. And that’s been five

years ago now. And I don’t know, I think I grew up with male role

models that were more aggressive, were very, I don’t

know, struggled in life, at times, and as their closest

relative. I struggled with that behavior. But there came a point

in my life where I had no choice but forgiving, and

understanding. So that’s like, not very detailed, but some

explanation of why I focus on mental health for men. And then

I moved to Alberta here and Canada, and a lot of young guys

in their 20s in their 30s committed suicide over the last

couple of years now, and it was really scary and uncomfortable

for me to see and read these news because a very dear person

in my life was struggling with severe depression and insomnia

at that time. And I just felt so very powerless. And as if I

couldn’t help move, this is getting emotional. Nevermind.

And then I met this awesome guy here in Calgary in Canada. And

he is a veteran himself, and started out with a project where

he bought a piece of land and transformed it into a huge

vegetable garden project. And we were working on it turning it

into a farm for veterans, for guys who come back from war,

have to sign that bullshit paper that says do you feel okay or do

you feel shitty? Do you suffer from these symptoms? If not, you

have to sign now and then we are not responsible for your mental

health. And then those guys sign that paper go back Come maybe to

a family maybe not, and still struggle with what they went

through and war and are suddenly pushed into society again,

sorry, and live with their families, maybe with young kids.

And it’s like, putting a homeless person or a person that

is struggling with deep mental health into Disneyland. Yeah, of

course, it will be overwhelming and hard to make that transition

during COVID, now, the numbers of alcoholics, the numbers of

drug abuse, depression, and domestic violence is

skyrocketing. And I want to bring peace to this one, I want

to provide a space where people can just feel okay with

themselves again, and meditate and sit with their thoughts. And

if they are so ugly to face, then at least you face them, and

you can be with them. And you don’t run away from them

anymore. And you know that there is a person out there, who cares

about you.

This is awesome. I can just hit pause, cry my eyes out, drink

some tea, and then continue talking. So yeah, I don’t know

that topic touches me so deeply. And if you’ve listened to

previous episodes, I’ve been raped when I was 21. And I was

able to get over that trauma now and move on with my life. And I

don’t expect any woman to do that. But this is my experience.

And I feel for every woman who still feels hurt and

traumatized. But a rapist is not born a rapist, a rapist is

formed by society. And I’m not talking about severely mentally

ill people who really need to be in treatment for the rest of

their lives. I’m talking about those people who at some point

in their life, truly fucked up truly did something bad. But we

need them back in society, they need us to receive them back in

society, and how can we introduce them back into

society, if we push them to the edge of society, then there’s

going to be more violence. I think my attempt here is for

when people feel violent and angry, that they find a new way

to chant, channel it out, and to express it, and to be okay with

their past, to be okay with themselves. And know that every

day you can make a new start. Every day you wake up, you can

make your bed you can make your breakfast. And you can make

different choices when you met in your past. And to ask me why

I’m more focused on men’s mental health and on women’s. Please

know that my podcast is for everybody. I just have these

little episodes there that I want to send out for men only

because I feel there’s so much for women out there. There’s

such a huge choice of makeup tutorials and emotional pain and

getting over your toxic relationship and getting back to

your ex umbrella. There’s so much out there for women. And it

is for me as if you would ask vascular surgeon as a surgeon

who is focused on operating doing surgeries on the heart and

the veins and the arteries, if you would ask him, why did he

not become an orthopedic? Why does he not care about the

joints and it is not that he not care that he doesn’t care about

the joints or the bones and the cartilage. He is just more drawn

to the heart surgeries and the vascular surgeries. So this is

my reasoning for today why I’m focusing more on mental health

for men, and I feel in talking about it and providing these

episodes. There’s women out there who will also open their

heart to it and learn maybe about their men, and there’s men

out there who can make peace with men, women, again, who

maybe are so angry at women because they were hurt in the

past, they were let down and disappointed and make peace with

their feminine energy again. So it is for both of you out there.

I love both sides equally. And I just choose in some episodes to

focus on men a little

more.

I hope that’s okay. And if it’s not then change your podcast. I

will be doing what I’m doing. And yeah, this was the Borealis

experience. I’m your host Aurora, with today’s episode

being very emotional, but it is okay. It just shows that I’m

imperfect and deeply caring. Take good care of yourself. And