I may have mentioned the Wild Voices Project before. It’s a podcast run by Matt Williams that profiles people who connect with the natural world in some way (tagline: the stories of the people saving nature), and it makes for some wonderful listening. Matt’s approach is informal yet gritty and his lengthy episodes unravel slowly,ContinueContinue reading “Joe Harkness, Bird Therapy and the Wild Voices Project”
Category Archives: mental health
#FarmerMentalHealth and Considering Online Therapy
It has been brilliant to see the subject of mental health increasingly embraced within the farming and broader rural community in recent months. On twitter there is a hashtag #FarmerMentalHealth which can be used by anybody wishing to discuss the subject or perhaps link to an interesting story or something to inspire or help others.ContinueContinue reading “#FarmerMentalHealth and Considering Online Therapy”
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Yesterday was Blue Monday, reputedly the most depressing day of the year. As you know mental health, particularly in a farming and countryside context, has been a topic that I keep returning to on thinkingcountry. It has gained a far bigger profile recently and more people seem to be talking about it than ever before,ContinueContinue reading “Seasonal Affective Disorder”
‘Education on Mental health is essential when one farmer a week takes their own life’ – Guest post by Jerome Fielder
You don’t expect to receive a phone call telling you that one of your best friends has taken his own life. But in January 2016, I did. Like you’d expect, the news rocked me, and I didn’t know what to say or how to react, I felt helpless. Joe was one of my closest friendsContinueContinue reading “‘Education on Mental health is essential when one farmer a week takes their own life’ – Guest post by Jerome Fielder”
Good to see #FarmerMentalHealth in the farming news again
Those of you who are regular readers of the blog will know that a few months ago I profiled rural mental health, as part of a wider campaign to get people talking about the subject (#FarmerMentalHealth on twitter). I did this mainly to get the subject in the spotlight again after the conversation had dissipatedContinueContinue reading “Good to see #FarmerMentalHealth in the farming news again”
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