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Insight into Animal Communication

A blog to help you deepen your intuitive connection with your animal companions

Navigating anticipatory grief for pets
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Navigating anticipatory grief for pets

Do you feel a lump in your throat every time you notice signs of your pet aging?

Here’s how to handle the anticipatory grief that comes with seeing your pet age and what they want most of all from you in this precious stage of their life…

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4 Questions to ask your pets in an animal communication session
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4 Questions to ask your pets in an animal communication session

When getting ready for your first animal communication session, it’s normal to feel excited, a little nervous and even a touch vulnerable. (Vulnerable in the way that Brené Brown would be proud of you for, of course!)

To help you prepare for your session, and hopefully feel a touch less nervous, here are a few tips on what and how to ask during your session.

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Healing from Pet Loss
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Healing from Pet Loss

When an animal friend passes, there are so few places where pet loss grief is normalized… life just kind of.. moves on.

Here are 6 Ideas to create space for your grief, honor your animal friend’s life, and create space for your grief and healing.

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Lessons from My Rottweiler’s Window Peeping Adventures
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Lessons from My Rottweiler’s Window Peeping Adventures

My Rottie, Raspberry, loved peeping into neighbors’ windows, dragging me along for the ride. What started as an embarrassing habit turned into a lesson in presence, teaching the power of staying grounded in the face of stress.

Today’s post is all about being as present with our pets as possible so we don’t lose our cool and their trust along with it.

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May Integrity be at the heart of all of our interactions.

Non-appropriation pledge:

My intuitive practices are anchored in my own ancestral healing traditions blended with western techniques, principles and modalities, including animism, intuition, animal communication, embodiment, breathwork, meditation, and inner heart-centric journeying and meditation.

Out of a profound respect for indigenous peoples across the world, I do not practice or teach healing or spiritual modalities that are not a part of my own culture and ancestry.

Image: photo from above of Joanna Schmidt, (me) showing only my white shirt and hands that are holding a bright yellow tea cup of tea next to a table with a yellow tea saucer.