From Consumption to Compassion: The Stages We Go Through When We Stop Eating Animals and What We Need to Know to Stay Hopeful and Joyful
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2013
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
I believe that the process of becoming vegan is the process of reclaiming our true compassion and becoming reawakened to it, and I think understanding the journey of going from innately compassionate child to desensitized adult to one whose compassion is re-awakened is key to inspiring it in others and to remaining awake ourselves. Once we become awake, however, another journey begins, and in today's episode, I introduce listeners to the 10 Stages we all go through once we become vegan. I believe that knowing that these stages are very real is crucial to feeling normal, crucial to understanding why people react the way they do when you tell them you’re vegan, and crucial to living in this world as a proud, joyful vegan who can effectively advocate for the animals and on behalf of a compassionate ethic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau. I'm an author and educator dedicated to |
| 0:16.2 | empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking myths about veganism, to being a voice for animals, and to giving people the tools |
| 0:25.2 | and resources they need to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm the author of The Joy of vegan Baking, The vegan table, |
| 0:35.4 | Color Me Vegan's Daily Companion and my newest book on Being vegan reflections Reflections on a Compassionate Life. |
| 0:45.0 | The newest book is available as an e-book right now, |
| 0:49.0 | and very shortly it will be out in paperback. |
| 0:52.0 | And I'll devote more time to talking about the book |
| 0:53.9 | in the next episode. |
| 0:55.2 | But as the book was inspired by this podcast, |
| 0:58.2 | this whole podcast, not this particular episode, |
| 1:01.1 | but by my podcast, I thought you would all like to know |
| 1:04.5 | that you can get it now right now right now and you can download it to whatever e-reader |
| 1:10.1 | you use Kindle nook kobo you can even download it to your computer you don't have to have a specific |
| 1:16.7 | e-reader you can download it to an ibook an iPhone and iPad whatever smartphone you have |
| 1:22.1 | so you can go to my website at Compassionate Cook.com and under books, |
| 1:26.6 | you can find it and it lists all the different places. |
| 1:29.9 | And I would be so honored if you would read it, if you would let others know about it, if you |
| 1:33.8 | would add a review at online bookstores on Goodreads, if you tweet about it and Facebook |
| 1:38.6 | about it, I'm really proud of it and I really hope you like it on being vegan reflections on a |
| 1:44.9 | compassionate life the first volume of my new joyful vegan series I'm also the |
| 1:50.2 | creator and host of the 30-day vegan challenge which gives you everything you need |
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