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When you’re feeling caught between a rock and a hard spot about how society treats animals (as animals) and how you treat them (as kin).
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Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
This is true kinship with animals, a podcast that offers you stories, conversations and possibilities on how you might deepen your relationship with animals and relate to them through a new place of understanding. My name is Janet Roper, your companion on this journey.
This episode asks if the true kinship path is right for you.
Episode Quotes
“It’s a relief to not have to downplay my relationship with animals and true kinship and what they are to me. It’s cathartic to be with an animal in kinship and not as a human overseer or master. Justifications are a thing of the past.”
“True kinship with animals is a service to the world that offers a vision and perspective for the future, not one that is marooned in the present.”
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Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
On this episode of The True Kinship With Animals Podcast, I’m sharing a connection I see between true kinship and Lord of the Rings.
This podcast gives you stories, conversations and suggestions on how you can deepen your relationship with animals by freeing yourself from the inherited, colonized beliefs and assumptions we’ve all been socialized into and start relating to animals through a new place of understanding.
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“We create community together as we journey along in true kinship. As a matter of fact, it’s our individuality that builds true kinship and encourages us to know the community in our unique perspective. How does it get better than that?”
~Janet Roper
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Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
On this episode of The True Kinship With Animals Podcast, frequent guest Deb Fate-Mental joins me in conversation about trivializing the weather and the effects that has nature.
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Your teacup is full, I can’t fit anything more tea in it. The guy thought he knew everything. So you really have to commence this and try to exist within this beginner’s mind and of course it’s really difficult sometimes to get it. I’m often having to stop myself feeling but do I really know this? Do I really know what’s going on or can I learn something there. Can I soften and open myself to what’s really going on. And you know, that often happens with animals.
~Deb Fate-Mental
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Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Does perfectionism have a spot in true kinship with animals? That probably depends on your cosmology and perspective. Perfectionism - that’s what we’re exploring in today’s episode of the True Kinship With Animals Podcast.
Episode Quotes
“Listen up folx, this is important: Animals are not an extension of our agency. But it’s so insidious how that assumption sneaks in!!! Here I was thinking I was doing the best I could for cat Raven, having his best interest at heart, and at the same time I was invalidating his agency.”
“Then I had the sudden realization — like a light bulb going on — that’s not realistic. That’s an illusion that points the spotlight on ME and what I want, what I think our life together SHOULD be. It left Raven’s wants and needs out of the picture and assumed he wanted what I did.”
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t spider nearly as well as a spider does.”
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Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Wondering about what reciprocal relationship looks like with animals? You’re in the right place - that’s what we’re covering in this episode!
Episode Quotes
“Reciprocal kinship is not about you, it not about getting your needs met. It’s not about what you think you’re entitled to receive from the animal. That’s privilege.”
“Kinship involves reciprocity. We all claim we practice this, because that is our intent. But when we examine our actions closer and with an honest appraisal, are we practicing reciprocity or entitlement?”
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
In this episode we’re talking about some changes we humans can make in practicing true kinship with animals.
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“You're sentient, the animals are sentient, it's time to come together.
Come together is such a nebulous phrase though, isn't it? I mean you already live with them, care for them, love, honor and respect them. What more is there to coming together?”
Janet Roper
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Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
This episode explores the vast topic of how you’re supported while you’re grieving animal family members. Because you don’t have to be alone.
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“It’s easy to forget we humans need care too. We need tending, nurturing, conversation, community and support. We need witnessing, not fixing.”
Janet Roper
“What would it be like to have a support team, both in every day life and online, that you reach out to when you’re feeling the need to have your grief witnessed, acknowledged or even held for you until you’re ready to take on the grief mantle again?”
Janet Roper
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Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
With us today is guest Angel Sullivan. Angel is here to be a light in the darkness, and to remind you of yours. She’s also here to build and re-build mutually beneficial nourishing connections with people of all kinds (human and non-human). she does that in lots of ways, but the most present in the moment are the lenses of archetypal astrology and a deep and visceral awareness of Death as an ally in life. Her websites are listed in the show links below.
Episode Quotes
“I feel a connection. Not only with that person, but with Life in general. THIS is part of Ordinary Magick for me. When I'm paying attention in this way, everything becomes enlivened and my life becomes more magick-full.”
~Angel Sullivan
“That - truly - the only way this world is going to change (including all the things we are seeing and don't like seeing) is if each of us is brave enough to step into our full beingness and our Truth. That includes how we're interacting with each other (and not just *human* others).”
~Angel Sullivan
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Angel’s archetypal astrology site rootedmystic.com
Angel’s VA site angelsullivan.com
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Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Today’s episode is all about true kinship with animals stories. That’s a story about how you coexist with animals so that you’re no longer the “owner” and they’re no longer the “pet”. In other words, moving from power-over to relationship-with animals. There’s one story about a cat and another about a horse.
Episode Quotes
““That coat - and I still have it and wear it - is laden with memories from when horse Shiloh and I came together in 1998. It has 18 years of Shiloh chewing on it, pulling on it, slobbering on it, spitting unwanted medicine on it, dribbling water on it and rubbing up against it. And the smell, it still carries his smell, as faint as it’s becoming.”
“This podcast is devoted to helping you show up in the world for animals from the fullness of your authentic self. encouraging you to look at your relationship with animals differently so that a new place of understanding begins to open for you.” Host Janet Roper
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Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
On this episode animist shamanic practitioner Deb Fate Mental joins us in taking about the effects climate change has on local ecosystems and animals.
Hear other episodes with Deb talking about seasonal change and the ecosystem: #71, #65 and #56
Episode Quotes
“Up here in the Northeast we’ve had beavers come back, and I’ve been to several places where beavers have been at work for 5-6 years, and have created this liminal space and it’s no longer just a pond, but the beavers have created space for not only animals to return, but liminal beings to come back.” Guest Deb Fate Mental
“She’s very fancy, her name is Fancy……she grew these long elaborate fins, she’s very interactive with me. It’s interesting to watch how she interacts with humans.” Guest Deb Fate Mental
“This podcast is devoted to helping you show up in the world for animals from the fullness of your authentic self. encouraging you to look at your relationship with animals differently so that a new place of understanding begins to open for you.” Host Janet Roper
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Guest Deb Fate Mental’s website
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