True Kinship With Animals
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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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. It’s also a reminder that true kinship is how you participate, not how others receive it. My name is Janet Roper, your companion on this journey.
Episode guest is Jen Pavich, an Executive Coach...
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 addresses navigating rough spots when you come across folx who may not be open to hearing about true kinship.
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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 addresses our human tendency to infantilize animals when we only see them as cute. Later in the episode I’ll be telling you ...
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.
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“It’s a relief to...
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 u...
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’...
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.
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“Listen up folx, this is important: Animals are not an extension of our agency. But it’s so insidious how that assumption s...
Wondering about what reciprocal relationship looks like with animals? You’re in the right place - that’s what we’re covering in this episode!
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“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 reci...
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 ...
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 l...
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 website...
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.
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““That coat - and I still have it and wear it - is l...
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
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“Up here in the Northeast we’ve had beavers come back, and I’ve been to several places where beavers ...
This is an encore performance, first published in 7/2023.
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 each week you’ll hear stories and suggestions on how you can begin to dismantle your connection with colonized influences so that you can deepen your relationship with animals, moving you from ownership to true kinship...
Content warning: On this episode we’re covering the deathcare, death and dying of animal family members and the grief those of us left behind feel. Our guests are human Stacie Mason, angel cat Martha, with the occasional appearance of angel cat Raven.
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“My jo...
There needs to be a ceasefire and a stop to the genocides. There needs to be the delivery of medical supplies and care, life support, food, fuel and water, which is the bare minimum. You can help by contacting your representatives, amplifying palestinian and other oppressed voices on social media and following those social media creators who stand for anti-oppression liberation. You will find a couple of suggestions i...
Content warning: This episode covers death, dying and the celebration of the dead.
On this episode we’re talking about honoring dead animal family members during this time of the thinning of the veil
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“Settler culture encourages you to always be...
On this episode you hear about helping animals feel more safe and secure during Halloween celebrations by implementing true kinship.
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“Safety hazards such as candles, the frequency of a door opening and closing, indoor and outdoor decorations,...
Welcome to True Kinship with Animals where we believe we all do better when ALL creatures do better. I’m your host Janet Roper. I identify as she/they and respectfully acknowledge I am on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Salish and upper Kalispel or Pend d’Oreille People, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.
In this episode I’m sharing with you a true kinship practice o...
Welcome to True Kinship with Animals where we believe we all do better when ALL creatures do better. I’m your host Janet Roper. I identify as she/they and respectfully acknowledge I am on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Salish and upper Kalispel or Pend d’Oreille People, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.
This podcast gives you stories, conversations ...
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