Life for Shanna Whan was punctuated by her relationship with alcohol - she’s been the girl that was date raped, the winner of college drinking comps, the forty year old drunk and, now, the woman who started Sober in the Country.

Shanna Whan’s story begins - like so many others belonging to country children - with a desperate desire to be free of boarding school.

With her newfound liberation, she jumped at the chance to work with stock and to sit on a horse all day, and took a job as a Jillaroo.

But life outside the school gates wasn’t all it was cracked up to be and, within a year, Shanna was a victim of date rape and three cases of sexual assault.

You can check out the full write up on Shan at https://www.humansofagriculture.com/blog/check-on-your-wild-mate

Content Warning: this post contains discussions of suicide and sexual assault.

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65: HoA "Check on your Wild Mate" with Shanna Whan