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Better Animal Communication Tip #8: You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
How do you Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? You can teach an old dog new tricks! I say this for one thousand reasons, just a few being: 1. Our Animal Companions need constant stimulation whether that is emotional – love or mental or physical. 2. They are waiting on our...
Better Animal Communication Tip #7: The Importance of Boundaries and Obedience
How do you set boundaries and obedience with your animals? Animals play when they are young whether predator or prey to truly exercise their ability to hunt or get out of the way quickly when they get older. They also play because they are young and silly (remember...
Better Animal Communication Tip #6: Be The Great Person Your Animals Think You Are
Here is Tip #6 in my “10 Tips to better Communication with your Animal Companion” See Video! Be the great person your animal thinks you are. Animals share with us the gift of unconditional love. It is something that we as humans forget to do for ourselves and our...
Better Animal Communication Tip #5: Exercise
See Video! Exercise helps everyone! Just as we need the endorphins from getting a good workout, they do too. We all need the relaxed mind after working out. Exercise uses up all of that extra energy – after a good brisk walk or play in the park, you can let go of the...
Better Animal Communication Tip #4: Fun Time
See Video Fun Time. This is one of the keys to keeping spirits buoyant. Take the time to laugh at the fun antics and/or be the clown for them. This can help for a number of reasons: 1. It gets everyone out of their heads to experience joy together. 2. It gives you the...
Better Animal Communication Tip #3: Quiet Time
See Video! Quiet time alone can lead to amazing results. If you were to just be for a moment and allow who they are into your own being for a moment, you may experience words or feelings that aren’t yours. I hate to say it but there are very few original thoughts. As...
Better Animal Communication Tip #2: Emotional Leadership
Watch Video Emotional Leadership is something I talk a lot about in my book, Communication with all Life, Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Hay House), and in my new book, Energy Healing for Animals (Sounds True). We are the emotional thermostat in the...
Better Animal Communication Tip #1: Say what you Mean and Mean what you Say
Our animal companions are looking to us and listening to us at all times. Even if they appear to be in their own world. Even if we spend a lot of time in our own world. Whether we are aware of it or not we are in their world as we are in everyone else’s world! As I...
Checking in with our Animals for the New Year, Reflecting upon Shared Intentions
As we reflect upon the last year, and look ahead into the new year, I always like to look at what I do personally and professionally. Since I have a big animal family, that includes intentions with each of my animals. Looking back, we have had big losses and we...
TEDx Wilmington Women, Animals in Transition, Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
It’s hard to believe that just a week ago I️ was in Wilmington, doing a TEDx talk. It was by far one of the more challenging things I’ve done. On the one hand I️ thought, oh, I’ll just go do this thing I’ve wanted to do. And then there was the...
Tales (and Tails) of a Benefit for Animals in Hurricanes and Training for Disasters
I was actually on the phone with Michelle Rivera about her kitty Bindi who had passed. Nothing to do with hurricanes. Nothing to do with anything else, really, when suddenly we hatched a plan for a benefit for the victims of Hurricane Harvey at that moment. When...
My Resistance to Making a Memorial for my Dog Isabella
Memorials by nature are an honoring, a tribute, creating intention around a memory and yet, I just didn’t want to make one for Isabella and place it on the wall with Alexandria (cat), Rollie (horse) and Olivia (dog). Was it because I had so many losses in a short...
