Welcome to the Being Animal Podcast! Our first episode goes into our story of how we launched this project and what it means to us. The main takeaway? No expectations other than a beautiful journey of what it means to be animal.

In this honest recount of struggling to begin relationship to the land, Rachel tells us all about how "invasive plants" have become her teachers in her relationship with herself, her dogs, and land.

In this episode, Rachel talks about the necessary step of removing the "nice girl" persona from her programming in order to move forward with her authentic self and to life in alignment with her dreams.

In this episode, Rachel talks about the reclamation of the witch archetype and how fear of witches is rooted in colonial beliefs as an attempt to control women, especially non-Christian women and women of color. Check out the Esperanza's Acres blog post about the confluence of antisemitism and patriarchy here!

Rachel talks about the winding cycles of nightmares moving to dreams and dreams moving to reality and getting down to do the "dirty work" in order to realize our true feelings.

In this episode, Rachel discusses the ways in which we contort our experiences to fit within a larger narrative of promoting "justice" and how this does a disservice to the larger mission of justice - continued struggle.

In this episode, Rachel discusses the move to "higher self" vs embodying the animal.

In this episode, Rachel talks about sowing seeds of spring and what it would mean to linger in your inner spring time... rather than rushing straight into summer.