Dutch the podcast - Episode 16 - A Dutch-Canadian Childhood and a Father's PTSD

Arthurs Boers’s first memory of his father is of him hurling a potted plant through a picture window in a fit of rage. He recounts the event in the first chapter of his admirably honest, emotionally charged memoir, Shattered. We talk to Arthur about growing up Dutch in Canada, building greenhouses, intergenerational trauma, and the PTSD suffered by veterans of Indonesia’s War of Independence. We also delve into how those topics inspired the spiritual pilgrimage that led him from his family’s Calvinism to becoming an Anglican priest.