All My Relations: Living with Animals as Teachers and Healers [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Susan Chernak McElroy, author of the New York Times bestseller Animals As Healers and Teachers, has long believed that animals offer solace as well as lessons in living to anyone willing to listen. In her bestseller Animals As Teachers and Healers, she told others' stories of the healing power of animals. In this book, she tells her own stories. Described by the author as a kind of prayer, the ten stories here explore concepts of ownership; naming, and unnaming, things; interpreting signs and language; animals as mirrors of the soul; and honoring one's own stories. Typical is the story about rats that explores what it means to be stigmatized, for both humans and animals. Included are suggestions for practices and
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Overview

Susan Chernak McElroy, author of the New York Times bestseller Animals As Healers and Teachers, has long believed that animals offer solace as well as lessons in living to anyone willing to listen. In her bestseller Animals As Teachers and Healers, she told others' stories of the healing power of animals. In this book, she tells her own stories. Described by the author as a kind of prayer, the ten stories here explore concepts of ownership; naming, and unnaming, things; interpreting signs and language; animals as mirrors of the soul; and honoring one's own stories. Typical is the story about rats that explores what it means to be stigmatized, for both humans and animals. Included are suggestions for practices and meditations that will guide readers into deeper connection with their own stories and their own relationships with those creatures with whom they share their lives.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781577317074
  • Publisher: New World Library
  • Publication date: 2/1/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 469,336
  • File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Gratitudes xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Misty 1
Remembered Relations: Honoring Our First Stories 12
A Practice 15
Chapter 2 Hermine's Children 19
Stigmatized Relations: Varmints, Vermin, and Stereotyping 28
A Practice 33
Chapter 3 The Goddess and the Chicken 37
Nonsexual Relations: Masculine, Feminine, and Gender 53
A Practice 55
Chapter 4 Gaia 57
Mysterious Relations: The Truth about Fantasy 71
A Practice 75
Chapter 5 Strongheart 77
Unclaimed Relations: Soulful Mirrors, Sacred Projections 93
A Practice 98
Chapter 6 Number 10 101
Nameless Relations: Unnaming Them 110
A Practice 112
Chapter 7 River Elk 115
Coded Relations: Interpreting Sign Language 127
A Practice 133
Chapter 8 Tarantulove 135
Strange Relations: Repulsion, Romance, and Befriending 144
A Practice 154
Chapter 9 Fashion 155
Unseen Relations: A Prayer for Sight 165
A Practice 175
Chapter 10 Kulu 177
Kept Relations: Ownership, Companionship, and Bondage 198
A Practice 206
Notes 207
Resources 209
About the Author 213

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