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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