HeyJaredHuman + Animal
Living & creating at the intersection of animal welfare and human mental health. I write about the human+animal connection and how it changes us, breaks us, and makes us more human. Inviting readers behind-the-scenes deeper into the human-animal bond
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Finding Myself On the Farm (opens the original)
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Becoming an animal advocate is a journey that often starts unexpectedly, through many smalls steps and yes’s along the way. Six years ago, I began working with a new caseload in my trauma practice: clients regularly exposed to graphic animal-cruelty content online. It led me to think about animals, and our relationship to them, in entirely new ways.Four years ago, I started volunteering in rescue and sheltering and went back to school (again) for a certification in Veterinary Social Work / Veter
CAN'T SORRY CAN'T (opens the original)
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Today, Peter Singer wrote an article “KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Free. It’s a story that deserves to be read, and I’m hopeful it sparks more dialogue and advocacy. I also want to add a piece to the conversation, because I think there is a perspective we’ve been missing.When chimpanzees are held in zoos with a record of questionable treatment, we debate whether they have a right to liberty. When a
Not This One (opens the original)
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Mid-stride I pause and come to stillness. It’s not the view of Bear Lake, but the squirrel on the trail next to it that stops me. Paige stops alongside me without question, for she is, in fact, also sharing in the revelation of our new furry friend. I am mesmerized by him and want to stop to truly take him in; Paige turns to her Seek app to learn his name: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xrho!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
Finding Your Frequency - A Series of Three Parts (opens the original)
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Nobody is just one frequency.Across this series, we’ve been working with Erwin McManus’s seven frequencies — the Motivator, the Healer, the Challenger, the Commander, the Professor, the Seer, the Maven. Seven native ways of moving through the world, seven ways of reaching another person.None of us are only one frequency.We have a triad. Usually a primary frequency, a favorite station, if you will, but also a couple of others we turn to when whatever is playing on the first one isn’t quite workin
Finding Your Frequency: A Series of 3 parts (opens the original)
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I don’t fit in this world.What I mean is that I look at what we have built, what we celebrate, what we ignore, what we are willing to let die in the periphery of our attention… and I do not recognize this place as a world that good people would make.We mark our big life moments by releasing balloons into the sky and detonating fireworks over the trees, and the balloons come down in the stomachs of sea turtles and the fireworks send birds off their nests to die of exhaustion, and we call it a cel
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