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True Kinship With Animals: Pause Before Responding
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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. You’ll hear a story from listener and past guest Deb Fate-Mental about a trail ride with her horse Dixie that clearly illustrates what can happen when you take that moment to listen, then respond.
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Episode Quotes
“That pause is the opposite of the call to urgency created by colonized culture and is therefore essential.” ~ Janet Roper
“In horse Dixie and Deb’s story, that pause kept them both safe and sound from a potentially dangerous experience.” ~ Janet Roper
“I don’t have that kind of relationship [old school horsemanship practices] with Dixie - I listen to her, she listens to me.” ~ Deb Fate-Mental
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