2025 - The year of living dangerously...connect with new people, learn new things, dive into life and live like no one is judging...

AND The kids are not ok? Chantal chats with Dr Chloe Kidd on the mental health of young people living in rural Australia. Dr Kidd sits on the Momentum research team that is helping to overcome access issues for young rural people needing mental health assistance.

Find out more about the Momentum program here:

www.momentumhub.org.au

What is Momentum?

Momentum offers tailored online treatment programs to help children and adolescents learn new ways to cope with feelings of anxiety and/or unhappiness. Momentum also offers help with sleep difficulties, as well as information on well-being and help-seeking, and tips and information about substance use for adolescents.

Momentum has been designed in collaboration with young people, parents, clinicians and researchers. The program is free to use in Australia and can be worked through at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.

Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast

Rural Women Leading: Annabelle Hickson creator of Galah Magazine - a runaway success in the cutthroat world of media, on self-belief, failing fast & succeeding beyond our wildest imaginations.

What will Galah Magazine creator-editor, Annabelle Hickson, do next?

A mother of three, a farmer’s wife, a natural-born entrepreneur who lives down the country road from me on a pecan farm, and who seems so self-contained, so unhindered by the rules of life…I just simply had to interview her and find out what on earth makes her tick...what makes her so brave? How did she come to be in this world without caring a jot for whether she fails and falls or not? A woman, it seems, for whom the only thing that matters is following one’s passion with complete abandon, despite harboring some of the fears that hold most of us back from discovering our true selves and putting it at the centre of everything we do.

What are the ingredients to living a life of unadulterated passionate abandon for the things one simply loves to do. Take no prisoners. Total leaps of faith. Fail fast, get back up and carry on...

And what will this, one of rural Australia's true female leaders and entrepreneurs, do next?

Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast

Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast

Sarah Crosthwaite, Dairy Farmer, Nuffield Scholar, and Social Worker
has just completed a tour around the globe as part of the Nuffield Scholarship in an effort to understand what's behind the mental health crisis among farmers worldwide. I was both enlightened and intrigued by Sarah's insights into the pressures that create mental health issues for farmers around the world. I am sure you will be too.

Read Sarah's Nuffield report here International Agricultural Research Reports | Nuffield Farming Scholarships

Website to Sarah's counselling service link here:
Home Page - Open Road Counselling

Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast