Radio H-E-A-L: Healing Radio with Raina Dawn
Oct 5, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Nova Scotia. A unique blend of Mikmaq & Gaelic culture, sprinkled with fiddles, yoga, old friends, new friends, lots of laughs, harbour walks, peaceful dinners alone, I share trip tidbits and Cape…
Raina DawnHost
There's a huge difference between being in the city and being in rural Nova Scotia.

Even though I was only visiting, I could consider myself a temporary come-from-away, and yet I still felt that people genuinely cared about me, my trip, and some even asked when I was moving there, which is the highest honor.

It's a place where when you arrive, if you can actually get into the community, if you can actually experience a deeper part of who these people are, how they act, what the culture is there.

And if you get to take some of those pieces home, that you will be part of a web of people improving the world.

Over this almost month-long adventure, I was able to meet and help a lot of people.

I saw this group, this band, punk rockers, literally run to go help a senior who had fallen in the airport.

Waitresses call you dear and sweetie and honey, and one even rubbed my back gently, wishing me safe travels and hoping I'd be back on this side of the country another time soon.

in a coffee shop, I almost ran my luggage over a man's shoe, and yet he still ran to hold the door open for me.

In almost every single pocket I hit, and I covered Halifax, the Annapolis Valley, and Cape Breton, I met people who spoke of things that reminded me just how small this world was, leaving me shaking my head with beautiful synchronicities.

because the main observation that I took home from this adventure was that one thing is clear, humans mainly want to take care of each other.

There's a huge difference between being in the city and being in rural Nova Scotia.

Even though I was only visiting, I could consider myself a temporary come-from-away, and yet I still felt that people genuinely cared about me, my trip, and some even asked when I was moving there, which is the highest honor.

It's a place where when you arrive, if you can actually get into the community, if you can actually experience a deeper part of who these people are, how they act, what the culture is there.

And if you get to take some of those pieces home, that you will be part of a web of people improving the world.

Over this almost month-long adventure, I was able to meet and help a lot of people.

I saw this group, this band, punk rockers, literally run to go help a senior who had fallen in the airport.

Waitresses call you dear and sweetie and honey, and one even rubbed my back gently, wishing me safe travels and hoping I'd be back on this side of the country another time soon.

in a coffee shop, I almost ran my luggage over a man's shoe, and yet he still ran to hold the door open for me.

In almost every single pocket I hit, and I covered Halifax, the Annapolis Valley, and Cape Breton, I met people who spoke of things that reminded me just how small this world was, leaving me shaking my head with beautiful synchronicities.

because the main observation that I took home from this adventure was that one thing is clear, humans mainly want to take care of each other.
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