I go for a run in the forest as a wolf almost every morning, it's pretty great. I pushed myself to learn the shapeshifting when I was younger because I knew it'd be worth it and I was right.
At least you have one on your side? Your gods are different than mine but that doesn't surprise me, worlds change those things up a lot. My grandfather is one, goes by Zeus, and he and my father had uh- a very strained relationship. My mother's side of things is from another pantheon entirely, and her people were betrayed by the gods there, because of the prophecy about me. I wasn't born yet when they murdered most of her people, and she escaped. Had me, now Odin wants to finish the job to try and prevent his own doom.