Throwing Wrenches Mending Fences Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Healthy coping with anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc can be tough, it's easy to turn to alcohol, gambling, or other unhealthy coping mechanisms. Tune into this candid conversation with Lauren Martin.

Topics Covered:

What is Anxiety

What is depression

How to know if you are using unhealthy coping mechanisms

How does addiction play into mental health

How alcohol becomes a slippery slope 

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Connect with Lauren at Middle Path Therapy

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Being super type A and organized is NOT required so don’t worry! Debbie Gress is a Field Meal pro! She is an athletic trainer, runs their family beef market and serves field meals like a pro! 

Here’s 5 steps to help you make field meals easier:

1 Print out your calendar and write everything out

2 Plan out what is for dinner (Need some idea’s? Debbie’s got you covered, send me an email and I’ll forward it along)

3 Make a shopping list

4 Cook, deliver and eat!

5 Reflect, write down on the Calander what worked well and what you would change.

Do you want some of Debbie’s recipes? She sent me a message or email at sarahz@micultivatebalance.com and I will forward you Debbie’s recipes.

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Website: https://www.gressfarms.com/

Paige Dulaney and her family farm and ranch in Colorado. She is a mom of three and a busy social media advocate (aka agricultural agvocate). She does a fantastic job and digging into research and facts about our food system, supply chain and agriculture in general. She always keeps her cool and bring the best information to the table.

We also talk about some sanity saving moms hacks and start off the episode with our biggest fear, losing keys in Walmart. We talk about how things might suck for the first few years, but if you can adjust your expectations when trying new things on your farm or ranch, it makes it easier to stay calm and avoid feeling so defeated.

Topics Covered:

Mindset shifts when you try something new

How to choose what to focus on and how to let go of the rest

Seven sanity saving mom hacks

How to have patience with people who don’t understand food

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Mary Pat Sass loves cheese, farming, and journaling. She is a farm wife, entrepreneur and social media influencer. Her what to make for supper video’s, mom content and farm lifestyle piece have gone viral because people love her down to earth, funny and real style. 

Mary Pat Sass’ Grounded Journals are the perfect prompts to remember the good times, collect memories and share photo’s. She created them because she wishes she would have written more down about family, things they have tried on their farm and simple moments with her kids. So, she created these gorgeous journals to help us all do just that. Collect memories, photos and share stories with our future selves and loved ones.

Check out the Grounded Journals here: https://www.groundedjournals.co/

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5 Paradigm Shifts I Learned in Therapy

1.      Set boundaries early and often, say no, and protect your time, space and family

2.      You cannot change other people, changing the way you react to situations in your life is more valuable anyway

3.      The story you tell yourself is the only thing that matters, the “truth” is subjective

4.      Sometimes you just have to talk things out

5.      When your childhood, your adult family dynamics, your financial security and the stability of your families future are all intertwined, it’s more difficult. Just acknowledging that fact, and recognizing when things get messy

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Ashley Brazo is in Commercial Real-estate by day and by night she is a mom and farm wife. I met Ashley a few months ago and we talked for a good hour about the challenges of raising kids when your husband is in the field. We hit it off right away. I asked her to come onto the podcast to talk about how to work through feeling lonely and sorry for yourself when the guys are busy. 

Topics covered:

What to do when you feel lonely

What mindset shifts helped

How to make a hobbies, Netflix show’s list

What to do when you get invited somewhere and your husband can’t go

What to do when you feel sorry for yourself for always being alone

The importance of getting out and doing fun things even if it’s just you and the kids

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Website https://www.micultivatebalance.com/

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Did you know that May is Mental Health Month? The American Farm Bureau Federation has a campaign going called Small Gestures, Big Impact.

Week one: Send a text

Week two: Give a card

Week Three: Take a ride

Week four: Deliver a treat

Week five: Make a call

Farm State of Mind: https://www.fb.org/initiative/farm-state-of-mind

National Farmer Mental Health Alliance: https://nfmha.ca/

6 Things to Improve your Mental Health according to Headspace (not a sponsor)

1.      Relax and reduce stress.

2.      Find ways to learn and be creative.

3.      Spend time in nature.

4.      Connect with others.

5.      Look after your physical health.

6.      Try to get enough sleep.

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Website https://www.micultivatebalance.com/

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On our farm, it feels like spring planting is getting started late. In reality we are not THAT late, nonetheless, I am anxious about it. We have something scheduled every weekend in May, this means I will have to leave the farm and do the activity. This gives me farmer guilt, it’s similar to “Mom-guilt” where you feel like you can’t be away from your kids or else you are an anxious mess, while simultaneously knowing that you are your best self when you get away. This boils down to a whole lot of anxiety on my part.

If we could get a good inch of rain every Friday night in May, everything would work out perfectly!

Since I don’t live in lala land the following list are 5 things I am committing to doing every day so that I can manage my anxiety, my house and the springtime chaos without losing my mind.

5 Daily Practices to Survive Spring Planting Chaos

1.      Do one load of laundry and one load of dishes every day

2.      Take a mindful minute and remember why I love farming

3.      De-escalate a trigger-For me this is that I have to have at least one clean countertop in my kitchen. Another trigger for me is when I don’t get my “must do list” done so for me de-escalating a trigger looks like doing the most important things first.

4.      Have a mantra for when things don’t go as planned. If it’s a change in my plans for the day, I say something like “I am flexible, I can adapt and change” if it’s a breakdown or problem I say something like “Ope there it is, good thing we are prepared”

5.      Improve your communication -group texts, morning meetings, etc.

Here are a few episodes that may help if you want to dig deeper into this.

Episodes #22 is about field meal hacks

# 7 is about how to ask for help

# 59 is 13 ways to Cope with Stress and Lower the Stress Response

Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

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#63 ChopLocal-Online Direct to Consumer Meat Sales Made Easy

Katie Olthoff is co-founder of ChopLocal which is an online farmers market platform where farmers can sell their meat products direct to consumer.  They created this online platform during the pandemic to help farmers and consumers who wanted to buy local meat connect. They remove the marketing and technological barriers by making the online portion of sales easy.

Katie is a entrepreneur, Turkey Farmer, Author, and so much more. We talk about motherhood on the farm, how farmers can easily keep their cool when talking to the public, and how you don’t have to be a niche farmer to sell your meat products.

Topics Covered:

How to sell Direct to consumer online

How to handle shipping frozen meat

How to create a marketing plan for online meat sales

How can farmers sell products online

How farmers can use ChopLocal to help them with technology and website issues

How using ChopLocal reduces stress

Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

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Website https://www.micultivatebalance.com/

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Connect with ChopLocal

Sell with ChopLocal and Learn More: https://sell.choplocal.com/

Website: https://choplocal.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/choplocalmeat

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/choplocal/

#62 How Gratitude Changed My Mom Guilt and 5 Easy Gratitude Habits

This past week, we went to the American Farm Bureau Fusion Conference in Jacksonville Florida. It was so nice to get away but I felt more Mom guilt than normal. This combined with the huge chore of packing for a cross county trip with a baby, sort of plagued the whole vacation and it got me thinking about how we can change mom guilt? While I am not sure we can ever totally get rid of it, I know that gratitude has changed mine is a big way.

Adrienne DeSutter said, “Say Yes to help and no to everything else”. So I have begun saying Yes to help, without even thinking about it. It was just an automatic Yes please. Yes please take the baby, yes please prepare a plate for me, yes please get me a drink, yes please to, “do you need anything from the store”.

People genuinely want to help others, LET THEM. Then instead of feeling guilty for accepting help, thank them and move on. When we use gratitude, it switches off our fight or flight response in our brain and helps to re-route blood from the survival mode part of our brain, to our “thrive” portion. Part of this is called our frontal lobe where we process information, emotions and logic.

But a daily gratitude practice isn’t for everyone so here are 5 easy ways to express gratitude

1.      Instead of saying what’s up ask, what’s good?

2.      Ask for everyone’s “highs and lows” at the dinner table or in the car

3.      Take 5 Exercise

4.      Trade “I’m sorry” for “thank you”

5.      Journal-write it out or talk it out

Sources: https://halo.com/10-amazing-statistics-to-celebrate-national-gratitude-month/#:~:text=In%20a%20study%20of%20800,well%2Dbeing%20by%2010%25

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