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Ways to revamp your relationship with animals
Episode #74 Radically Recreating Your Relationship With Animals ~ Janet Roper
In this episode you’ll hear 4 ways you can be more interconnected with animals through true kinship that are pretty straightforward to implement in your everyday life.
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Script Ep. #74
Intro
Welcome to True Kinship with Animals where we believe we all do better when ALL creatures do better. I’m your host Janet Roper and on this podcast you hear stories, conversations and suggestions on how you can radically recreate your relationship with animals by freeing yourself from the inherited, colonized beliefs and assumptions we’ve all been socialized into.
Thank you for engaging with this podcast by making a financial contribution, listening, subscribing and sharing. Your financial support and social media engagement contribute to building a world of interconnection between animals and humans. How? It holds and supports me as I create and produce the most honest, authentic and ethical content I can. Your support makes my work sustainable and is ever so much appreciated! You’ll find my social media links and ways to contribute to my work on the show page or visit janetroper.com
Submit Your Story
There’s a new segment coming to the podcast! It’s called “Stories From Listeners” There are so many true kinship stories just waiting to be told. I bet you have at least one that builds understanding and rapport between you and animals. A story that lives in your heart and is keen to be shared.
I’m asking for your stories for this new segment. These are mini vignettes showcasing true kinship with animals. They are short, 3-5 minutes in length and can run the gamut of emotions - they can be inspirational, they can be funny, they can be poignant.
Does your story qualify? Submit your story and find out!
Teaching
I don’t find the current conventional attitude about animals in our society is representative or fair to them or us. To be clear I’m speaking as an independent white woman identifying as she/they and currently living on unceded Salish land, known by the colonized name of Montana. It’s time to disengage from the conventional view of animals as pets, or 2nd class citizens and collaborate to recognize their agency as we act from ours. We’ve come a long way in our relationship with animals and we have a long way to go yet.
In recreating your relationship with animals, it’s important you recognize and detach from the ineffective and archaic expectations society has about how you ‘should’ treat animals. Those ‘shoulds’ are rooted in human dominance and dependent on your acceptance so those practices can continue.
There are folx just like you, who are ready to take part in building interconnection between animals and humans. You are open to exploring what your human responsibility is and you believe there is no time like the present to do this!
This podcast is a place where you learn about your ever-changing relationship with animals and how you can leave the archaic power-over paradigm behind and create a reciprocal culture of kinship.
Ready? Here are some ways you can be more interconnected with animals through true kinship, and they are pretty straightforward to implement in your everyday life:
You’re listening to the podcast, a great starting place! Here you’re discovering how cultural ideas that value people over animals shapes your everyday life with animals. You are learning ways to disengage from that and relate in true kinship with animals. Yay you!
Get to know the neighboring animals in your local ecosystem. As mentor and friend Kelley Harrell says, your ecosystem is literally where you stand, where your feet are planted, where you live. Each ecosystem is different: an ecosystem on the east coast is not the same as the ecosystem where I live in Montana. So it’s important you get to know the animal neighbors in the local ecosystem.
Recognize you are connected with the animals in the ecosystem: you are sharing the land, the air and your breath
Get to really know one of the animals in your neighborhood. Maybe it’s one of the animal family members you live with, maybe it’s one of the animal neighbors. For the next 2 weeks daily at the same time, take 5 or 10 minutes to be with that animal and observe them. Write down or record your observations and at the end of the 2 weeks review your observations and see what you notice that you weren’t aware of before
Join The Kindred Community
When you’re ready to dive deeper, explore the on-line Kindred community. Kindred serves as a playground so to speak, when you are committed to practicing and honing your true kinship skills and ideas, while gaining confidence and community support. Kindred has 3 different levels so you can join at the level that best meets your needs. It is a subscription based service that I offer with monthly themes presented through community, workshops, written and audio offerings. You gain a deeper understanding of true kinship and the courage to practice it.
With Kindred you:
Get monthly offerings customized for your level of membership
Learn through written, audio, video offerings and community conversations
Enjoy the community and company of like minded folx
Visit the show page or my website at janetroper.com to find out more information and register.
Outro
Here’s an invitation for you to join me and other kindred spirits on this path of true kinship with animals. My work is devoted to helping you show up in the world for animals from the fullness of your authentic self. I hope this encourages you to look at your relationship with animals differently so that a new place of understanding begins to open for you.
How about submitting your true kinship story to the new podcast segment “Stories From Listeners”? If you have a story you think listeners would like to hear, contact me and find out if it qualifies!
If you enjoy and/or benefit from this podcast, become a financial supporter. Your financial support makes my work sustainable and allows me to continue providing you with the guests and life changing information you hear on this podcast. Supporting my work by making a financial contribution or shopping my wish list at janetroper.com shows your appreciation and is greatly welcomed. Thank you for your continued support and for listening to this podcast!
Just for today remember: We all do better when all creatures do better. Until next time, take good care!
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Janet Roper
…..is an animist, podcaster, intuitive practitioner and mentor identifying as she/they currently living on Salish land in Montana.
For 30+ years Janet has facilitated clear conversations between animals and people. In her work she encourages people to expand their bond with animals by disengaging with hierarchical approaches and relating in true kinship.
She is cheerfully owned and managed by a multitude of angel animals and several houseplants.
“We all do better when ALL creatures do better.”
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