Mum-on-a-mission Leila is determined to start a conversation about mental health in rural communities
Leila McDougall, 35, Tatyoon, Vic
Looking out over the farmland, it looked beautiful on a bright sunny day. But the landscape hid a difficult truth about life in our rural community.
A farmer had died by suicide, and he wasn’t the first. My heart bled, and it got me thinking about the importance of talking about our problems.
‘Why are men reluctant to talk about difficulties in their life?’ I asked my husband Sean, then 25.
It was January 2014 and Sean and I lived on a sheep and cattle property in
