Happy Thanksgiving from Ahimsa Life Coaching!

  

 

This will be my fourth year celebrating a plant-based, cruelty-free Thanksgiving (or ThanksLiving rather).  Beyond some of the more surface benefits (no more unbuttoning my pants with the "sick full" feeling after eating seconds, not being sick in three years), celebrating this occasion in a truly compassionate way has connected me in a greater way to my values, beliefs, and Life, as a whole - my own life, other people's lives, non-human animals' lives, and the life of this planet. No innocent being, human or non-human, deserves to suffer pain or death unnecessarily beyond the laws of nature.  As non-violence (Ahimsa) and peace begets more non-violence and peace, and consciousness begets more consciousness, I continue to educate, enlighten, and spread the word of Ahimsa and inner/outer awareness as far and wide as I can reach.  While we're all on our own journeys, which must be respected, I highly encourage you to consider the impact of your choices, specifically food choices this holiday season.  

As the lovely Rory Freedman (author of Skinny Bitch/Bastard) challenged those who attended the 2010 Celebration For the Turkeys (picture from most recent 2012 CFT event above): 

• If you eat all animal foods, try abstaining from eating animal meat with a healthful & delicious vegetarian diet for a week (or more!).  
• If you are vegetarian, refraining from animal meat but still consuming dairy and/or eggs, try abstaining from all animal foods with a healthful & delicious vegan diet for a week (or more!).  
• If you already eat entirely vegan, please spread the word of the personal and extenuating benefits with as many people as you can for a week (or more!).  

Ultimately, we have a lot of good we can experience and achieve by doing so.  The CFT event was such a joyous occasion because we were able to extend the same celebration to the turkeys, who gobbled up their berries, greens, and yams, thankful to be alive, while we still enjoyed our festive feast. Consider making your Thanksgiving, and the days beyond, a celebration where we give thanks for life and living in all ways.

 

 

Please support my amazing wife, you know her!, Lindsay Wolf, and Kiss Me, I'm Vegan! in this year's "Terrific Thanksgiving Turkey Pledge."  In honor of everything you've read above, we hope you'll spend this holiday saving a turkey and eating all of the other good stuff.  To show your commitment toward compassion, please post a simple - or detailed - comment on the KMIV blog pledging not to eat turkeys this Thanksgiving.  Lindsay's goal is to reach 100 pledges - and she needs your help (as do the turkeys)!  You have until the end of the day - go pledge, it only takes a minute!  Thank you from Lindsay, from KMIV, from ALC, and from the gobblers.