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Helping Your Pets Get into a Calm, Neutral State
You’re on your way home and before you even get out of your vehicle, you hear your dogs barking like the kids when a parent walks in who they haven’t seen all day – they are SO excited it takes them a long time to calm down and let you get in the door.
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New Book Launched!!
In this video, I speak about the launch. As of right now, I am holding the #1 spot in 3 categories: Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Growth Self-Help, and Mysticism & Spirituality.
My Publishing Journey Part II
The first week of February, I submitted the last changes and entered the next phase of identifying potential interior layouts, cover design ideas, and submitting the book for copyright…
Walking the Publishing Journey Part I
If you have ever wondered what does publishing a book look like and what all goes into the process, this 2-part series of blogs will shed some light on the components…
Practice Presence with Your Dogs
With some dogs, it can be all about the face-to-face play. With others it is connection, touch and the sound of your voice. Often, the more involved you get in the play and with them, the more fun and present you are with them….
Presence Activities with Other Animals
With other animals it is often out-of-the-box ways of presence. Just choosing to be seated next to where they are, softening your gaze, and giving them/him/her your attention is an act of presence - and most likely something they do not receive regularly. Even …
Whispers of Love
A seventeen-month journey is another step closer to the magical publishing experience as my book, Whispers of Love: A Journey to Self-Love Through the Guidance of Animals and Spirit…
Placing Your Self in Airplane Mode
We have all seen or heard of people, friends, or family members talking about the need for a digital break, yet with some people and situations it is important to extend it to when you are focusing on reaching a stage of presence with your pets. Cellphones, computers, televisions, social media – all can distract our…
The Art of Presence with Your Pets
Animals connect and communicate with one another through being in a present state of mind, so they hear another’s thoughts, see images, and sense what their emotional condition is while also being aware of the scent the other is giving off. They do this with us as well…
What does highly sensitive mean?
Our pets can help us learn just how sensitive they can be. You may not even realize that he or she is picking up on something you are experiencing as whatever is occurring isn’t what we would classify as a behavior shift in them.
Messages Beneath the Surface
As I was out hiking, I inquired as to what this week’s blog was to be and memories of some of my experiences with those I come across on my paths in nature, what is our innate inclination or response surfaces for understanding….
Do Pets Reach Out?
I have had some on this side that will periodically connect and show up out on hikes and the like. This, yes, is their version of a phone call. Only it’s a face popping up in my mind or a visual of them appearing in some way…
Adventures in Life
In the past two weeks, I have had several experiences that have brought through really high energy moments and ones that I have overcome something that gave me insight into the journey of the past year. Each of these are in some ways very different.
The first was very unexpected as I took my twenty-year old, nearly historic car…
A Little Bit of Love
As many of our pet friends share, love is the ultimate guidance in our lives. Surrendering to the power of love can look like…
Into the New, Guidance by Your Pets
What does it look like when an animal friend is attempting to get us out of our proverbial comfort zone?
Often it can be the subtle shifts in their mannerisms, styles of play, or even where they want to go on a walk. If you are a person who walks out your front door…
Peace in the Unknown
I am becoming aware of the lessons and the love found in many journeys and experiences with those around me and that of my own paths. The pieces of the equation are surfacing for greater understanding with each layer’s perspective…
When a Feline’s Behavior Speaks
Recently a feline friend began showing up in places that required acknowledgement before she would move beyond the spot. Let me add some context, her human, a family friend was in…
Disengaging the Nervous System - Part Two
Awareness is key to shifting how we engage our nervous system. To step into this space, we need to breathe, take a moment, and observe where our thoughts or emotions are taking us.
Disengaging the Nervous System’s Auto Response Message
Just as many of us have an out of office for a vacation or a meeting that automatically sends out a message via email or text, so too does the nervous system. Like the phone or computer system, we can forget to turn it off.
The Unexpected Plan B
Before the holidays some family, friends, and I encountered a situation with a friend after an accident that brought up a lot of questions in regard to pet care, house care, and all the things that being unexpectedly “offline” or in an accident that delays your return to your home can bring up…