Find Your Place Within True Kinship

neither competitive nor comparative

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Inside: Inspiration, insights & info on true kinship with animals - from me to you! Finding your place within true kinship, options to work with true kinship, how you become a true kinship champion and January’s affirmation for paying subscribers.

In the last newsletter, A Kaleidoscope of True Kinship, I asked a couple of times if you needed to take a break from reading the newsletter to catch your breath. (I know some of you did appreciate that time to catch your breath!) I went on to ask “What would it be like to change your notion of true kinship from one of a structured, prescribed concept to one of an ever-moving, ever-changing kaleidoscope?”

Let’s explore that a little more.

True kinship with animals in not relationship in a box. It’s not a canned relationship where you do A and your expectation is the animal will do B. Well, let me clarify……you can certainly expect the animal to do B, but that is not guaranteed. After all, animals, like us, have their own agency.

True kinship is recognizing and honoring relationship between animals and humans with each species standing in their own unique agency. That distinct relationship is an ever changing blend of yours and the animals wisdom, needs, desires and experiences. It is not about control, it is not about wielding undue influence over another sentient being.

True kinship with animals is finding yourself in relationship with another sentient being that is not competitive or comparative, but unfolds in co-creative and conscious reality.

Important to keep in mind: when we act from our authentic agency, we are breaking away from colonized control, designed to keep us hooked into the belief animals are subservient to humans.

Think of your your true kinship journey as a WIP - a work in progress. Because that’s what it is. There’s no beginning and no ending as there is for the colonized concept of a WIP. There is no right way or wrong way to true kinship, but there is your true kinship that is walked in conjunction with animals.

That is ever changing.

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What Are Ways To Work With True Kinship?

Points to keep in mind in your true kinship practice:

• Be present, often there’s no need to actively do anything

• Recognizing agency lowers the risk of anthropomorphism

• Recognize we have a shared reality nurtures awareness

When you’re ready, here are some ways to practice true kinship with community:

Subscribe to this free newsletter. There is also a paying option beginning at $5.00 USD/monthly where you receive a monthly teaching, affirmation, journal prompt, altar suggestions and Jus For Today true kinship tips.

Join the online true kinship with animals membership community Kindred. Beginning at $15.00 USD monthly, there are 3 levels to choose from. Join before 1/14 so you can take part in the live member monthly Q&A More info here.

1:1 sessions. The brand spanking new program Walk Your Talk is specifically set up for those on the true kinship journey. It supports you when finding some clarity or doable next steps would be helpful. This practical guidance helps you find direction as you align your true kinship intentions, values and actions. It doesn’t include intuitive work.

Kindred members receive 1 Walk Your Talk session quarterly with their membership.

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For Paying Subscribers

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