The Rural Well

Episode 2 - Farm Safety

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In this episode, we discuss the following topics:


  • New farm safety training for kids in North Dakota including stress management
  • Lauren talks about ADHD links and triggers and interesting parallels to PTSD
  • Social capital types: Bonding, Bridging and Linking and how they related “generally” to stress in rural families
  • Loneliness 
  • Changing the messaging to our rural kids about “measuring up” to expectations
  • Quote from Charles Buckowski about freedom vs loneliness
    • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
    • Early onset Alzeimers impacts
    • Current epidemic in Canada and USA is “Loneliness is our battleground”
    • We need intentionality in our connections, relationships - especially in our families
    • A challenge to our listeners! Choose 3 people that you can regularly check in on, send a note or mentor and choose them with intentionality
    • We do a “catch a phrase” quote discussion on Excellence and discussion around examples of it
    • Ending fun question!


      • Links shared on the episode

      National Farmer Mental Health Alliance

      Website: ⁠https://nfmha.ca/⁠


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