Animals at Home Network

204: Animal Therapy for Autism, ADHD and Anxiety | Shira Loa - AAH


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Shira Loa of Snake Therapy discusses her journey with snakes - from her initial fear of snakes, her first snake purchase, to her work in snake education and husbandry advancement. She shares details of how her first interaction with a snake led her to a journey with her own snakes, as well as beginning interactions with other people in order form a connection with them and snakes. Her passion for the therapeutic benefits that reptiles can bring to their keepers shows as she discusses the various mental health benefits that have been seen in both neurodivergent and non-neurodivergent individuals. Shira also discusses the Neurodiversity and Reptile Keeping Survey that she created in hopes of understanding more about what reptile keeping can offer neurodivergent people, leading to talk about the potential for overconsumption of reptiles and traits that neurodivergent people have for keeping reptiles more efficiently.

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LINKS FROM THE EPISODE:
Survey: https://bit.ly/SnakeTherapySurvey
https://www.youtube.com/@snake_therapy
https://www.patreon.com/SnakeTherapywithShiraLoa
https://shiraloametalwork.com/pages/snake-shed-metal-art-jewelry
http://www.instagram.com/snaketherapy_shiraloa
https://www.thelittlezoo.org/
We Discuss:
0:00 Coming Up
1:44 Welcome Shira - Her History With Snakes
5:05 Purchasing Her First Snake
8:59 From Fear to Fascination - How did it happen?
11:35 Shira’s Home for Snakes - 9 Total!
13:50 The Start of Snake Therapy
18:45 Interactions With Animals Is Therapeutic
21:25 Shira’s Work With The Little Zoo Non-Profit
23:20 Helping People Connect With Snakes
25:55 The Therapeutic Benefits That Snakes Can Give
28:32 Caring For Animals Helps With Mental Health
30:24 The Response From Social Media
32:35 The Bio Dude - Substrates and Diets
33:37 Neurodivergence & Reptiles
45:42 Neurodiversity and Reptile Keeping Survey
57:24 Reptiles Don’t Have To Just Be For “Reptile People”
59:43 Overconsumption of Reptiles
1:04:47 Neurodivergent Keepers Can Make Better Keepers?
1:07:18 The Content’s Purpose and Reach
1:11:13 Animal Welfare and Our Connections
1:14:05 Shira’s Next Projects
1:17:25 Shira Loa Metal Work
1:19:03 Closing Thoughts

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