Seeking a Sense of Community (Stage 6 of What Happens When You Stop Eating Animals)
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
According to a recent study, the majority of people who become vegetarian / vegan go back to eating meat and animal products after a short time. One reason seems to be the lack of support or community. In today's episode, we return to our 10 Stages of What Happens When You Stop Eating Animals / Become Vegan and focus on what I think is the make-or-break stage for people: Stage 6: Finding a Sense of Community and Belonging.
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Transcript
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| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life motivated, and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau, and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.9 | You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you first and foremost to all of you for your support. |
| 0:30.0 | It is only because you support this podcast that I can produce it. You can become a monthly |
| 0:35.3 | contributor or a one-time donor by going to joyful vegan.com. Your support is quite literally |
| 0:42.4 | what enables me to be a voice for animals in the world in this way |
| 0:47.1 | And just so you know it's working the proof is in the pudding and here's a little pudding from |
| 0:52.1 | Catherine in England |
| 0:53.3 | Catherine wrote my name is Catherine I'm from England and six months ago I took the |
| 0:58.1 | 30-day vegan challenge I've never looked back since and I'm officially vegan and proud. I'm still adjusting and there's |
| 1:04.8 | so much more to learn but I'm loving every step. I truly feel mentally, physically |
| 1:09.6 | and spiritually better. I only came across your podcast a couple of days ago and I am hooked. |
| 1:15.0 | They are so helpful and enjoyable, please keep doing them. |
| 1:18.0 | Yours sincerely, Catherine. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you, Catherine, and thank you, everyone who listens and supports this work. |
| 1:25.4 | Your support is helping others who listen and who benefit from this work who cannot support. |
| 1:30.5 | So thank you, all of you, please visit Joyful vegan.com. So hi everybody, I should say happy holidays. It's officially still in the holiday season, but we're moving toward the new year which is very |
| 1:44.4 | exciting I have I think a podcast episode in which I talk about how I love the |
| 1:48.4 | turning of the new year I love sitting down and reflecting on the previous year and crossing over the threshold |
| 1:54.0 | into the next year and making plans for that year. So I love this time of year |
| 1:59.2 | very much and I hope you're enjoying it as well. |
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