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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

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  1. “By society, by society flows, by markets, by everything. And market forces are very strong. We have to see it as it is. And I think that with time, that idea of success has not contributed. Potentially allowing us to bloom to our full potential as human beings. Collaborate, to respect one another. To flourish and being happy without comparing to one another. Without thinking of drastic competition, What I see now is that there's a backlash and people are thirsty for no BS, sorry, authenticity, truth, connection, intimacy. I think we're all thirsty for that. A baby comes into the world needing that. Immensely”

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  2. “No, you know, it's interesting that you put it under that light because even if there is a continuum between the individual and the cult of individuality. They're not polar opposites because we cannot have the cult of individuality without the individual. What I mean is that the culture that we have grown up in, let's say in the past, what? 50 years or more, has been centered on the Potential of the individual to grow. To succeed, especially in a capitalist market. So to have opportunity to grow, that definition of success Has been boxed in to a narrow notion.”

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  3. “The same self respect inner love that I have in stillness and happiness and in sorrow, so that I can always go back there. It's my home. That's who I am. That's who everybody is, by the way. This doesn't belong just to me. Everybody has that capacity for inner peace and inner love. And I always tell my kids you have this home, you have this life, but you should have all of that in a miniature version in your heart. Take it in that grand scheme of things and put it in your heart in a miniature version and take care of it because that's the gift of life. And I'm getting emotional because it really is the gift of life.”

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  4. “Thank God I still had sports that allowed me to In French, we say it means getting rid of the negative. But I went through therapy, so deep-provoking thought processes and heart opening. I wanted to understand where it was coming from. Yoga, meditation. Perspective, maturity, motherhood, everything, everything about life, I think you can learn from. And sometimes when the negative arises because it arises in everybody's life, in different forms, I don't get scared of it, whether it's critiques, you know. I try to keep a distance from it and to create”

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  5. “I think it's like everybody's process. I don't think any human being doesn't go through negative thought patterns. I think we're taught it naturally and unnaturally through living in society because we're not Thorough said living in a house in the woods alone by ourselves. So I think that we learn it through behaviors, through social dynamics. Sometimes our social contracts are not so clear. I think for myself, I think life, life learned it to me. And I was ready to open up and look at myself truly in real light. And see where I suffered and why”

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  6. “Because it almost becomes a comfort zone when it's totally not comfortable. And when you actually ask yourself, does this make me happy? Not a lot of people will say yes. And I think we live in an era where it's time to actually speak our truth and break open and open our hearts and say, how do you feel? Tell me the truth. Let's stop putting our heads into the sand and let's talk about the real stuff.”

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  7. “What does that mean to be yourself? It's a great concept, makes me happy to hear it, but how does that articulate in our daily lives? And when I speak with young people, I'm always so inspired by what they tell me. And I always try to invite them to think about this and not only young people, but also adults. When you left this morning or last night when nobody was looking, when you were alone in your bedroom or in your bath or whatever it is, we get quiet cut time and mothers of three year or any kid or kids. We all know that's very rare to have quiet time. But when we do have quiet time as men, as women, as girls, as boys, how do we talk to ourselves? How do we feel? Are we kind, compassionate with ourselves? Or are we like ugh, never good enough, you know? That person has more why not me? It's like we're taught to believe that. We're taught to think that. Therefore, the brain kind of processes these messages and stays there.”

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  8. “We are losing spirit and wisdom and intelligence if we focus on that youth obsessively. And when half of the planet is not eating adequately to be healthy and we're looking at ourselves in the mirrors to think how we're going to fix this sagging under chin or whatever it is, lines, what are we doing? What are we actually showing of who we are? It's a current. It's a strong current. It's normal. It's like we've normalized this obsession with our non-condition. I try to go back to that as much as possible. We're pulled in so many different directions that it's tough for especially young people to find their center. A lot of people say just be yourself”

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  9. “And I think that the cult of individualism has deepened that gap between the natural state and the fake state, between life and death in some ways. Ageism, thinking about that gap between young people and older people, how do we see older people? What are we taught about them when we grow up? Where is that wise man or woman who should be transferring us her or his wisdom? Is that how we really live? I mean, in many Indigenous communities, that's how they live. And we have so much to learn about that. Because I think that as we are getting older very slowly, and when we are youth obsessed”

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  10. “That's a deep question. I think that we all crave love and attention. We all want to be understood and cared for. That's how a baby comes into the world. And I'm a mother now, and I always felt like I've had this maternal intuition of caring. And I want other people to thrive. I want other people to succeed But I see that in a world where and in a culture of individualism, where we have been taught that we were never enough, and where we have been shown visually, models, quote-unquote people or concepts of perfection, of obsession with youth, we are denying who we are as mortals, as human beings, as our condition per se, and how we come into this world. flower grows and it dies and you know it's a circle of life cycle it's kind of like we're denying that in some ways”

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  11. “The year in heels and address because that's the dress code for the event. Well, good, but that does not reflect my life or what we're doing.”

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  12. “But when you do take all the facts together, and whether it's so many authors are working on this theme right now, as Stephen Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, I know you probably read all this stuff, but there are so many researchers and scientists too looking at data and evidence showing us that in our daily lives there is less violence than there was before. There is positive thoughts and spirit that are moving this humanity forward. And I believe that. It doesn't mean that the negative forces are not strong. They're probably going to get stronger. This means that we need to be as organized as human beings who want peace and justice as the other part of our own lives where it's not working out as well. So I think that the one thing I have seen and that I would love for people, everybody to see is what it's really like in politics. It's not glamorous. And if you see me, for example, in a couple of the shots during”

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  13. “I believe that human goodness rises at many moments. And it doesn't mean I'm naive. Quite the contrary. I see the forces at play. And I also see that goodness usually prevails. When you look at the state of the world right now, it's difficult to believe that because so many people are suffering.”

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  14. “Behind the curtain of politics. You know, I was not overly politicized before I met my husband. I had some core values that I believed in as a human being. And I was completely blown away by what I have seen in the past years in politics, by the human beings I have met who sacrificed their lives, their family life, their quality of life to serve. And it is very inspiring and at the same time very frustrating to see that sometimes some people will want to darken that picture and will have actions that will make it darker for everybody, but not for long because I think that going back to the truth, I think it's Churchill who said that the truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may right it, but there it is in the end. I believe that.”

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  15. “I know I don't know where that's from. And you know what? Sometimes I find that it might not belong to me. It might be something just bigger than me. And many times in my life, I've had very, how do you say, serendipitous moments filled with synchronicity? I've had maybe somebody come into a room and I would have like a flash of, oh my God, that person is meant to be with that other person. And today they're married with kids. That has happened more than once. So it doesn't really belong to me that kind of, I would say. Deep intuition, right? But it moves me in many ways. I have children just talking about it.”

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  16. “The emancipation of women and girls and the barriers that we still face on this planet, whether they are physical or mental. So I think it was kind of a struggle between all that. I was also someone who was always seeking truth. I wanted to know what was going on inside of me. I wanted to know what was going on inside of others. I didn't like superficial relationships. I wanted depth. And I think that at that age, depth can be tricky.”

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  17. “And he started from nothing and he succeeded in many ways that we can describe as patriarchal in our society and that put pressure on me as a young girl. I was always part of the boys because I was super sporty and I liked stuff that was a bit scary, you know, from barefooting to skydiving. And I really got along well with a gang of boys. I also had a couple of really good girlfriends, but I was never a ganger girl. It was really more about one-on-one. Maybe it's because all I knew because I was an only child. And I think that, you know, mix that up with all the culture that we were brought up in as somebody who's 43, born in 1975, where there are still so many paradoxes between”

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  18. “You know, when you go back to those days, like when I'm asked, when did you stop suffering from eating disorders, when you're in it, you don't think about that stuff and you don't write the date down. There are many reasons why I had anxiety. I think it's teenage angst. I was an only child, so whether my parents gave me love because they did, you feel pressures in other ways that siblings can share and can talk about. I couldn't. I grew up with Father who was extremely performant.”

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  19. “and that you can offer it to the world. And I think that is a healing path for peace and more justice because it completely changes the way that you perceive yourself and other human beings. And everywhere I go in this life, at the corner of the street or at the end, the end of the world, on a trip, I do not, not only do I not see differences, I don't feel differences until somebody talks about them or wants to make them something that separates us as human beings, which I think is not the right path for more peace on this planet. So it taught me how to live differently with myself and with others. And I think that I truly, I'm curious about others' journeys. I want to know.”

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  20. “Every single teenage person goes through those phases. We express it differently, but in the brain, the incentive reward system resembles many other types of addictions. So I was telling myself, you must stop this. Why are you doing this? But it's not that easy. It's a compulsion. And your brain is learning how to react and want it. It's a tough journey. And I healed from it. And I learned in so many ways that this kind of adversity or whatever your adversity is. And yes, of course, there's worse adversity than others, but you can compare it because if one day you decide that you see your adversity as the nastiest, disgusting looking gift wrapped in this nasty paper, you'll know that inside it is a gift and that it's a gift for breaking open and looking inside and learning that self-love is possible.”

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  21. “You know, first of all, I knew exactly what I was suffering from in those years. I was educated. I knew of it. We weren't talking about eating disorders much in those years. And we thought that there must be maybe a capricious moment in a fortunate adolescent life, which is totally a stigma, a taboo, and wrong. The truth is that eating”

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  22. “About 20 years ago when I started intellivision in Quebec, I was already used to the cameras and all that. That wasn't an issue. So all of that is not new. But when there was more attention focused on what I was doing, it was even more meaningful for me to be in contact with so many human beings that were telling us, because you're telling your story, we feel that we can tell our story. And that's my story about eating disorders and what I went through in my teenage years and how I'm healed. And I just want to help now. It's my only duty right now is to actually share the love and the knowledge that I got through my experience to be able to help others. So it's my life and I live it fully. I don't want to compare it with any others.”

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  23. “You know, I mean, some people would argue that yes, it is harder, but it's my life. So I'm not going to start comparing it. I'm in it. I'm going to start living it fully. And it is treacherous by time in sometimes. And it is very demanding because there's lots of pressures and lots of demands and lots of requests and lots of work that I want to accomplish. And I do put pressure on myself because”

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  24. “When we started, everything became kind of like a natural extension of what I had all restarted in my life as a person, as Sophie, with talking about women's issues and giving speeches. And there's nothing that I changed from one day to the other because we're in this job. My values are the same, but my surroundings are different and there is security and there's attention and it's intense. I always go back to my center. I think that's what I have been looking for for a very long time is how do I go back to my center? How do I actually find peace in my mind, in my heart and be able to adapt to every single situation that life will throw at me? I think that's the main goal here.”

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  25. “Same person as when everybody's watching. Thank you to the 40s. Yeah, no, I've never felt like this was taking on a role. It became very organically organized, I would say, even if it's organized chaos politics and what it entails in some aspects of our lives.”

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  26. “Get used to this because I'm like, one day nobody's going to be clapping and it's going to be a different life situation and you will adapt because you have enough knowledge and education and love that you'll be able to adopt. It's my only wish for my kids really. The rest doesn't belong to me. It belongs to them.”

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  27. “So, yes, the public spotlight is part of our lives. That's true, but it's not our lives. And we talk about daddy's job being the prime minister of Canada. And one day he won't be Prime Minister of Canada. He will be somebody else. And who are we? What do we stand for? When nobody's watching, when there's no spotlight, no titles, no important events, no important people or whatever they are around us. Who are we? Who are we in our core? I ask myself that question, always checking in, and I think that my kids know that they should be asking themselves that question to actually discover what they're made of. And whether daddy's in that job or not, who are they? I think that's the most important. So when we are exposed, when we do go to a park and people are clapping with balloons or whatever, they look back to me sometimes and they'll raise their eyes or roll their eyes back and go, we know, we know, don't.”

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  28. “Play with my kids, and that's where I just experienced deep joy. So it's not something I think about something I just fully live.”

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  29. “Parenting for me is, I would say, the love of my life is my priority, is my joy, is my grounds. I'm very close to my kids physically, mentally, psychologically. We discuss a lot. We talk a lot. We try to, even when there was frustrations that come along, we talk about them, very physical, very cuddly, close closeness, proximity. Lots of time in nature with my kids. When those moments arise in a very chaotic rhythm that our lives are all in, and yes, my life is in a unique context right now, I must say that I pinch myself. And I'm somebody who loves life. I'm an only child. And I grew up kind of thinking in my head and also my parents telling me, hi, you know, just say hi, my name is Sophie. Would you like to play? I still have that in me. I still want to.”

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  30. “To be able to see yourself as you truly are and to be able to accept yourself as you truly are. And that is probably the biggest gift, I think, a human can actually benefit from on all levels and how you then interact with yourself and therefore with the universe, with humans around you, what does it mean to lead a fully human life if we're not in contact with our deeper knowledge, who we are as individuals. I don't think it's a lesson she taught me like, listen, Sophie, this is the lesson. I think I took it from her as a child through her own journey. And today I'm a parent and I'm realizing that no matter what we tell our kids, it's all about how we act and how we live. They feed off of it.”

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  31. “And I think that the cult of individualism has deepened that gap between the natural state and the fake state between life and death in some ways.”

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