Rural Women's Support hub is part of the Family Counselling Support Network company
which offers Australians health and wellness support no matter who, where and why.
Family Counselling Support Network (FCSN) is a Social Enterprise business which has been developed to help Australians find information more easily, in a more consolidated way, which is highly informative and offers genuine support to help you feel more empowered to make a more informed decision. It's time to make things easier!
The Rural Women's Support Hub, is just one of the many hubs provided for free through FCSN, to Australians. It is a hub dedicated to rural women of Australia. Rural encompasses all areas outside Australia's major cities.
We know that living on the land or remotely often means rural women face additional and different challenges to women living in metropolitan regions. In conjunction with our women's wellness and menopause hub, DV hub and Parent Directory hub, we hope to offer rural women a one stop consolidated place to access the support they deserve, feel better supported, connected and less isolated.
We acknowledge the support of all our inspirational ambassadors who are helping us to support the health, safety and wellness and connection of so many.
Katja, a New South Wales' farmer equips rural women with the necessary physical, social and emotional skills for life on the land. Her supportive online community 'You've Married a Farmer, Now What" is on social media, YouTube and Podcast. www.theruralum..com.au
Based on a sheep and cropping property near Caramut, Kirsten founded the Rural Podcasting CO, a podcast coaching and agency service, specifically for people in rural areas. Kirsten was awarded a scholarship recently to the Australian Rural Leadership Program (ALRP). Ducks on the Pond, hosted by Kirsten and Jackie Elliott and Jennifer McCutcheon, is a podcast for rural women recognising that living on the land provides challenges and opportunities that are unique to rural,
We know that accessing the support services you need can be bloody tough and frustrating.
Rather than spending countless hours trying to search on-line to find the services if and where they are available, Rural Women's Support Hub is dedicated to help connect rural women, to products and services that will help them source the help they need:
PHYSICALLY | MENTALLY | EMOTIONALLY | SOCIALLY | FINANCIALLY | LEGALLY
We do this by providing lists of expert online service providers, resources, webinars and events.
We also provide you access to Australia's largest PARENT HUB DIRECTORY which provides access to a range of online products which can be ordered online and delivered. If you have a product or service you would like to promote, please reach out to us at [email protected]
In order to give greater opportunities for connection and support, our hub aims to help promote rural and regional events and activities as well as our own online events, webinars and activities.
Please reach out to us if you would like us to promote a Rural women's event for FREE (applicable for not for profit organisations). If you are not for profit, please still reach out and we can discuss our small fee to help our administration fees.
What to initially expect - moving to the farm and adapting to change
What are the biggest challenges - real life hurdles as reported by rural women
Navigating the complexities of multi-generational farming
Adding value your way to the family farming business and feeling like you belong
Balancing farming life with family responsibilities
Self care on the farm and setting boundaries
Practical financial and business management skills for farming and online training
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Isolation and access to events can be tricky but it doesn't mean that you have to miss out on getting involved with online clubs and hobbies.
We have a range of fun online clubs launching and would love to open up the opportunity to promote your online clubs and hobbies for FREE through our hub listing. For further details please contact [email protected]
Many of our clients have asked for a fun online book club - we heard you! Sign up now to join our monthly Konnect online Bookclub launching soon https://konnectbookclub.com/
We are proud to promote Motherland's Village Program is innovative online mother's group program which provides a virtual space for rural mothers to improve communication and reduce isolation for mums. https://motherlandaustralia.com.au/motherland-village/
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We have a range of courses and webinars about to launch which have proven to be popular requests including:
Financial empowerment course
Succession planning
Re-connect with you course
Dealing with Anger
Separation/Divorce course
Resilience building and stress management
It ain't all woo woo
Domestic Violence, financial and coercive control
Setting boundaries, dealing with triggers
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We openly invite other organisations to promote their online courses with our hub.
Please email us with details at [email protected]
All advertising if free for registered not-for-profit organisations.
Expectant and new parents in rural and remote areas of Australia often face some unique parenting challenges - from lack of family support, lack of child care and specialist support services, concern regarding lack of confidentiality or genuine support, and/or struggle to find culturally sensitive support options.
This includes peri and post natal support, post birth challenges, parenting challenges, schooling needs, empty nest, neurodivergent support, co-parenting support.
We will provide great resources and supports from experts in these areas as well as a directory to support services.
Our free Podcasts are launching soon with "Keeping it all Real with Susan and Friends"
where we have a great line up of rural, regional and city, guys and girls and experts chatting on a great array of engaging topics - some serious, some education and some just plain nonsense/fun!
We also would love you to join Ducks on the Pond - a fabulous podcast with one of our wonderful rural ambassadors, Kirsten Diprose, a farmer and former ABC journalist, Jackie Elliot a professional in the agricultural industry and Jennifer McCutcheon, a journalist in Dubbo, who provide podcasts dedicated to rural women by rural women. Each tackling issues crucial to the lives of rural women including mental health, succession planning balancing motherhood with rural life and launching personal businesses.
Katja, a New South Wales' farmer equips rural women with the necessary physical, social and emotional skills for life on the land. Her supportive online community 'You've Married a Farmer, Now What" is on social media, YouTube and Podcast. www.theruralmum.com.au
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Rural women – A dreamy existence at times but bloody hard work and challenging!
Watching my cousins all grow up in rural worlds, almost seemed romantic to me as a child. I would visit every holiday from the city and ride horses, milk some cows, pick fruit, ride my motor bike, jump in mud, star gaze, play a lot of cricket, ride on tractors and hang out in makeshift cubbies. I was particularly indulged with attention from one Aunt who lived on a remote property with her husband and six sons. She would beg to do my long hair every day! Aside from the bugs, mice, snakes, dodgy plumbing and the intense quiet where I lay awake at night a little nervous listening to lots of unfamiliar noises in the pitch dark, it was a fabulous escape from the chaos of the city.
But as I grew older, I slowly grew to understand the reality of their world beyond these simple wholesome joys. They were extremely long and physically exhausting days, to get someone to attend to the farm so they could have a break was expensive and stressful, they rarely had a sleep in due to the livestock needs, the weather was unpredictable and often extremely cruel. I watched them cry as crops were ruined, neighbours were fatally injured on machines, deal with regular power outages, witness their favourite horse die from a snake bite, hungry dingo's that surrounded and killed their livestock, endless fences that always needed checking and repairing, the worries of lost stock and children wandering into open dams. I watched dairy farms go bust or forced to convert to beef if they could afford it. Teenagers who were not wanting to remain on the property planning their escape. Medical and other support services that were a long distance away or sub-standard.
My Grandmother had been a very social Melbourne girl when she met my Grandfather Charlie. She had fallen deeply in love with the country boy who seduced her to go rural with stories of green pastures and healthy living. But for Nan, it was beyond confronting. The quiet, lack of resources, facilities, shopping and entertainment, her lack of rural living skills, the initial difficulty of breaking into the local social cliques and community, the non-existent holidays, fear when any of the four children needed urgent medical assistance, the long wait for products and services and financial strain, put her mental health and marriage in jeopardy on many occasions. She once said that whilst she eventually made a lot of lovely friends in her small community, she always kept all her family issues very private and did not feel she wanted to discuss them even with the local doctor who was her neighbours.
All my aunties were country born and bred so their coping mechanisms and understanding of the challenges of rural living were a lot more realistic. They spoke so fondly of their wonderful communities who supported one another and how they could never have endured city living. However, there were still many days when they admitted they wished they had had access to more help to deal with the stresses and challenges, the remoteness, menopause, teen issues, even the empty nest feelings as their children often opted out of rural living.
Family Counselling Support Network and Separation Support Network offer our rural clients confidential, online services with flexible hours to accommodate their schedules no matter where they are located. If there isn’t a time that suits you just email us at [email protected] and we will do whatever we can to help.
We also offer a range of online workshops and courses, fabulous free online book club (Konnect) and resources. BOOK CLUB LAUNCHING SOON!!!
From 1 September we also invite you to join us on the couch with a cup of tea (or cheeky wine) to listen to me having a chat and a giggle with a fabulous range of people talking all things women – ‘On the Couch with Susan & Friends.’
Reach out anytime. We are here for you. x
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