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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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EP #95 True Kinship With Animals & Perfectionism...

True Kinship With Animals ·

2025/05/09

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, podcast host and your companion on this journey.This episode covers the connection between the colonial standard of perfectionism and true kinship with animals. We’ll be

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36:42

Grieving Animal Family Members With Guest Jen Pavich

True Kinship With Animals ·

2025/03/05

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 & Facilitator currently residing and resisting in Austin, TX. She has served on many

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06:15

Ep #93 True Kinship, Your Practice & Colonization

True Kinship With Animals ·

2025/02/14

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. Episode Quotes “As a matter of fact true kinship is the antithesis of a colonized system. It’s not a

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09:41

Ep# 92 Seeing Animals As Cute

True Kinship With Animals ·

2025/01/30

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 about a book I’m writing on grieving the loss of animal family members and then requesting we

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05:38

Is True Kinship With Animals The Right Path For You?

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/10/21

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

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07:02

What Does True Kinship & LOTR Have In Common?

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/07/14

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. Episode Quotes “We create community together as we journey along in true kinship

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54:27

Trivializing Weather With Guest Deb Fate-Mental

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/06/29

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.Episode Quotes 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

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12:17

Perfectionism Is Not What It's Cracked Up To Be

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/06/13

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

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06:42

Reciprocal Relationship With Animals

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/05/31

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

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06:58

Kinship, Intuition and Integration

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/04/23

In this episode we’re talking about some changes we humans can make in practicing true kinship with animals.Episode Quotes “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 Show Links Support this podcast Share Your True Kinship Story Get Your Daily Dose of True Kinship Join the

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06:17

Animal Grief With Community

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/04/09

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. Episode Quotes “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

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59:00

Guest Angel Sullivan On True Kinship With Animals

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/03/15

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

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10:16

Stories About True Kinship With Animals

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/02/26

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

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34:44

True Kinship In Your Winter Ecosystem With Guest Deb...

True Kinship With Animals ·

2024/01/16

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

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09:53

Grieving When Neurodivergent

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/12/11

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, one animal at a time. Content warning: This episode talks about death, dying & grief over

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56:54

The Rainbow Bridge & True Kinship

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/11/29

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. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter and get your Daily Dose of true kinship on Instagram Episode Quotes “My job was not to tell Martha what I thought she ‘should’ want, but listen to what she thought she wanted and needed.” ~ Stacie Mason “I find

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06:54

Connection Between Curiosity & True Kinship

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/11/14

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 in the comments. This episode dives into the connection of curiosity and true

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05:29

Remembering Your Dead Animal Family

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/11/01

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 Subscribe to my Substack newsletter and get your Daily Dose of true kinship on Instagram Episode Quotes “Settler culture encourages you to always be in the light, to bring in the love and light. It infers that to be in the dark is to pull in low vibrations, but there’s light and love in honoring the

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06:24

Bringing True Kinship Into Halloween

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/10/27

On this episode you hear about helping animals feel more safe and secure during Halloween celebrations by implementing true kinship. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter and get your Daily Dose of true kinship on Instagram Episode Quotes “Safety hazards such as candles, the frequency of a door opening and closing, indoor and outdoor decorations, excess litter on the ground - all of this can be confusing and frightening for domesticated and farm animals and wildlife.” “Halloween is the second

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09:20

True Kinship With Animals: Pause Before Responding

True Kinship With Animals ·

2023/10/17

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 of taking a pause before responding so that you’re not acting from a sense of artificial urgency

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