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How do you love?
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A reflective invitation to understand your relationship with care, yourself and your dog
How we care for our dogs is deeply rooted in conscious and unconscious relationships with our own sense of care and attachment.
And care is deeply shaped by social structures and expectations, cultural priorities, politics, economics and ancestral learning.
In patriarchal cultures, the idea of a "good woman" is built on a lot things, one of them being how much of a caregiver and how nurturing she is. How much she can serve others while forgetting to serve her own self. How her care must exist in a boundaryless space where she is expected to give and give. And where not being caring and nurturing is un-womanly.
As a BIPOC woman myself, my relationship with care has been complicated. I struggled to delineate for myself how much of caregiving stemmed from intentionality and willingness versus gender and social construct conditioning.
My relationship with my dogs was the first relationship where I was in an active caregiver role. And the relationship brought up so many wounds, beliefs and ideas that I was carrying in my heart, soul and body that I was completely oblivious to.
To be able to attune to my dogs' needs, I had to first learn how to attune to my own needs and desires. And that asked of me to unpack my own relationship with care, just like it does for so many of the dog moms I support and guide.
You desire to soulfully know and understand your dog.
You want to show up more intentionally in your relationship instead of repeating old patterns or habits. You crave to experience an emotional intimacy with your dog that you know is possible. You are courageous and bold in taking accountability, in owning up to mistakes because you realise that that's how you repair and rebuild trust.You are able to empathise with your dog because you take time to reflect on your own journey and struggles.
In knowing your dog, you are learning to know about yourself and you want to be guided by that self-reflection to break out of toxic cycles and be guided by healthier, sacred and more intentional connections.
You are carrying the wisdom that few get in touch with - that only in knowing yourself truly and deeply, can you know other with as much truth and depth ✨
You recognise that your relationship with your dog doesn't have to be a battleground and that can be a mirror. You see this as an opportunity for personal growth, to become a more authentic version of yourself and to align with more heart and soul led ways of being.
You want to breakaway from cycles of blaming and withdrawing and build capacity for witnessing your own reactions and wounds and grow from them. You desire to show up with more presence - you see that as an opportunity to offer your fullness to your dog.
And you know that all of this starts with knowing yourself deeper.
Get to know the archetypes!
Each archetype beautifully tells you a story of how you care and your relationship with it. We move through your archetype's primary lens of care and strengths.
But we also explore your edges and understand that shadows that lurk in how you offer care.
Each archetype comes with an invitation to reflect deeply and create room for a little reimagination, if you choose it.
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