Ranquet is a great animal communicator and now is showing that she is a great writer! Her many stories in the book are from her work in the field. They are engaging and humorous, yet deeply thought provoking. This book gives you a reason to consider the possibilities of animal communication as a way to enhance your relationships with all living things. You will find yourself looking at your own pets differently and expand your relationship with them through Ranquet’s insights and guidance. It’s Ranquet’s kind of “thinking outside the box” that simply makes life on the planet more intriguing.

Astrologer and fellow HayHouse author, Mark Husson, of Denver, CO says, “It’s simple, Joan makes the world a better place for animals by making their keepers better people. This book is light and deep, funny and serious, real and fanciful – those are the wonderful extremes found here. Joan is bridging the gap of understanding not just with our animals, but also for us – with each other. Thank you, Joan!”

Joan Ranquet has been in independent practice as an animal communicator and energy healer for several years. She has worked with thousands of individual pet owners, dog, car and horse trainers, barn managers and vets. She troubleshoots medical issues and helps stimulate healing in conjunction with conventional treatment. She helps clients to deepen their ability to care for and understand their animals.

Ranquet has been featured in Pet Nation on Dateline NBC, and has also been on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Animal Planet, Fox 31 News in Denver, King 5 News in Seattle, and WB-2 News Denver, where she was dubbed, “Doctor Doolittle of Denver.”

Horse Connection Magazine | November 2007

The way Ranquet explains herself, she makes animal communication more believable for non-believers. She tells us that she had to learn how to communicate with animals – it is not something that she just knew.

The author divides the book into two sections – Revelations of an Animal Communicator and You as the Animal Communicator. I feel that the introduction could be another section as it is during the introduction that you get to know her as a person. Then it goes into her experiences as an animal communicator and finally into her helping to make each of us understand our own pets.

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By the time you finish the book, you’ve got a new relationship. Even if the author never knows who you are, you know you’re friends. She’d like you and you’d like her. Finishing the book is a little sad because that connection is gone.

Joan Ranquet is that kind of author. I picked up her book Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator because I was interested in reading about animals and the work she does with them. I got so much more than that.

Ranquet’s words offer more than just the observations of an animal communicator. Communication with All Life is a funny, authentic, spiritual, centered, and informative book about animals, awareness, health, and the deep and important role you play in your companion’s life. In addition to the many stories and examples from her clients and their pets, the author gives sweet examples of her own learning process with her animals to convey this as well.

This book doesn’t try to prove whether or not someone can communicate with animals, though there is one section describing telepathy. Communication with All Life recognizes that there’s a connection, a oneness of all things. And that any part of that oneness can tap into any other part of that oneness. In fact, Ranquet occasionally references other authors like Abraham-Hicks, and applies some of those teachings to our relationships with our pets. She does this with ease and practicality. No woo-woo stuff here.

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I felt like I got so much out of the chapters with the stories about the clients she’s had and the issues they had to deal with, as I recognized myself or my pets as having very similar issues. {…}

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I got this book and planned to read it in sections. Instead, I stayed up most of one night, reading it from front cover to back cover. I put it down, felt as if I had a new chapter of my life was ready to be written, and I just had to write the words. Read full review at deltabluez.blogspot.com.

“Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator”

A Seattle “animal communicator” emphasizes how it’s important “to spend time with your pets and stay connected to them so they feel safe.”

Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times book critic, The Seattle Times Company

There are many ways we communicate with our animal companions. We use words, of course, but what we don’t realize is that we are constantly communicating using pictures and feelings, as well. For example, when we tell – in words – our animals not to do something, they don’t understand the “not” part, because the picture we invariably have in our minds is of the animal actually doing what we wish they wouldn’t. In our minds is, “Go ahead, pee on the couch.” Our expectation is often, “Well, they going to do it again anyway!”

Another example of how we unknowingly send messages is by what we are feeling: When packing for a trip, we are apprehensive about leaving our animals behind, worrying that they will miss us and feel sad and that we will miss them terribly! This often leads to separation anxiety and depression. We can try being happy about the trip and about the fact that we will be back soon and that they will have a great time while we are gone!

This book contains many exercises we can use to deepen our intuition, as well, in order to get pictures, words and feelings from our companions. I have been working with the techniques and have been able to get images from my dogs and horse. My dogs were out late enjoying their nightly run. I began to worry – it had been an hour – and tuned in to the pack leader. I got an image of a large white curve. When the dogs returned five minutes later, I realized that the image was of the roof of the barn next door. That’s what the pack leader saw from the distance and that’s the direction they came back from!

This book contains many stories of how Joan’s advanced communication skills saved many a relationship – between animal and steward, between animals in the same household and even between the human members of a family!

This is a truly fascinating read and one that will change forever the way you behave, communicate and think about the animals around you.

The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers.

These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that animals don’t have feelings.

Becoming Aware

If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected … . Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.

— Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe, in a letter to President Franklin Pierce

Sometimes one of the biggest obstructions to understanding what our animals are experiencing and needing is being in an all-consuming state as a result of a painful experience. By being so far from One Mind, we get confused about how to care for our animals’ needs when they start acting differently.

Read the full excerpted chapter online at The Monthly Aspectarian or on Wisdom Magazine’s Web Edition.

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