668: Rebecca Ruda on Mental Health and Urban Farming

Understanding the Importance of Keeping Grounded While Trying to Make a DifferenceIn This Podcast:We talk a lot about agricultural practices, climate change, and the global food supply, and the news is not always great.  Rebecca Ruda reflects on the anxiety this can cause and reminds us that just as the problems of the world deserve our attention, so does our mental health.  She provides tips for recognizing anxiety symptoms and openly shares her own experience.  Then Rebecca offers simple but useful strategies for continuing the work of advocating for nature without doing harm to ourselves.Rebecca Ruda is a wife, mother, mental health therapist and urban farmer. When not endlessly pulling bindweed from her strawberry patch, she enjoys hiking in the nearby mountains with her family. She is currently at work on her first novel.  As an Urban Farm podcast listener, we have invited her to share her story.Visit https://www.urbanfarm.org/2022/04/01/668-rebecca-ruda/ for show notes and links.Mental Health and Urban Farming.

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