What True Kinship With Animals & Ginsu Knives Have In Common

I am grateful to be doing what I have been called to do here on earth — help people be in true kinship with animals.

I am also lucky that those attracted to my work are well meaning folx who are kind and tender-hearted and want to do what’s right by animals.

Sounds like a piece of cake, right? But therein lies a problem.

My clients already have a good relationship with animals and are already doing their best to improve the lives of animals.

Then I come in and like the Ginsu Knives pitchman in the old commercials I assert “But wait! There’s more!”

That’s often followed by pushback, which is totally understandable. When someone knows they’re doing the best they can for animals, it’s hard to have someone come in and advocate doing things differently. Like upside down, inside out differently.

Especially when doing things differently starts by making changes within the person.

We humans often think making change means checking things off a list. True, but that is most effective when those exterior changes are the result of interior changes that create in-depth transformation, going beyond knowledge and becoming a felt body sense.

When you have a lived body experience you can start to accept:

• an animal doesn’t owe you allegiance because of how you treat them
• relationship with an animal does not necessarily mean ’til death do us part
• your plans for an animal do not have to be accepted by the animal

As Maya Angelou said “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

Here’s an invitation for you to join me 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.