10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And while we may at times help others with their mental health issues, we pastors must also attend to our own emotional stability. Yes, birding can be a wonderful tool for maintaining mental health. That has certainly been my own experience, but I am not the only one who says this; an ever-growing body of evidence confirms this fact.

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Birds Emotional Medical Shelters 239

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. by Marc Bekoff.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

You can learn yoga, Pilates and meditation , and after having meditated for nearly two decades I can say that, for instance, the " Meditation on Emotions " is a perfect introduction to meditation and is actually very much like what I do at least a couple of times a week. I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering.

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Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals. They shared with me that they have the ability to sense our emotions and feelings. They will have the opportunity find a forever home, experience unconditional love or transition to the Other Side.

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Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space.

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