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Insight for Intuitive Living
A small moment of peace and connection with animal stories and insights for creating and living an intuitive life.
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Image: Joanna Schmidt (me) in w white sweater sitting on a grey porch swing next to Whiskey, a long haired black and tan dog who is resting peacefully.
3 generalizations about animals that drive me batty
There are so many generalizations that circulate about what animals feel, need, understand and think about…. but just like ‘one size fits all’ rarely fits anyone, these are doing you a disservice.
Here’s what to ask your animal friends instead.
What’s on your pet’s bucket list?
Knowing what is on your pet’s bucket list assures that the very best things life has to offer doesn’t get lost in the everyday shuffle of chores, work and just getting shit done.
In the spirit of our pet’s bucket lists, I’d love to tell you a little story about a heartwarming and delicious experience we helped my dog check off her bucket list (and caught on camera!).
4 tips for making life spectacular for older animals
Are you struggling to adapt to living with a frosty face, older, wise animal friend?
Here are 4 tips for making life spectacular for your animal friends who have made it across the magical threshold from youngster to wisdom keeper
Plus, a truly magical tip from cat friend, Miss Kitty, on preventing embarrassing (and painful) constipation for older cats
Have a nearly perfect pet? Here's what to ask them…
Are you lucky to live with a low low maintenance, practically perfect animal friend?
Here's a short list of powerfully mundane questions to ask them that are sure to lead to profound epiphanies about yourself and your pets
What’s your animal’s love language?
Today we are talking about the unique LOVE Languages of our animal friends!
Understanding what your pet’s love language is kind of like having an ace up your sleeve, when it comes to your ability to help them heal their past traumas and reassure them that they belong and are safe with you.
This is one post you don’t want to miss!
What is your pet’s intuitive communication style?
When you're trying to tune-in and hear your animal's intuitive signals for the first time, even as sensitive and intuitive as you are, it's pretty normal for it to feel like trying to take down a pinata in the dark with a toothpick.
It helps to know the ways they *might* be trying to get messages across — but there are a lot of them! Here are a few common ones to get you started.
12 Questions every intuitive animal lover needs to ask their pets
If you hold off setting up an animal communication session until something BIG or problematic comes up, you are going to want to tune in to this episode!
I’m sharing 12 questions every intuitive animal lover should ask their animal companions to assure you’re both on the same page about everything from the mundane to the Big and Soulful.
A breath practice for people who hate breath practices
Have you ever tried a fancy pants breath practice that was supposed to help you center and ground but left you feeling more disconnected with your body and breath than when you started?
If this is something you even secretly struggle with, Dear Intuitive One, I invite you to stick around. Today we’re talking all about how to let it go so you can actually use your breath for grounding and centering, thanks to a breath practice I learned from my dog, Raspberry.
Bridging the gap: Talking to animals remotely
Have you ever wondered how Animal Communication works when we aren't in the same room with the animals we are talking with?
Today, I’m sharing all about my unique process of intuitively communicating with animals remotely. Pus, I’d love to share an easy guided meditation to help you create a love letter for your pets so you can touch base with them when you are apart.
3 times you get Permission Slip to be Full of Yourself
3 Times you get an official permission slip to be Full. Of. Yourself (in a good way)
This is your permission to fill your personal space FULL of YOUR OWN ENERGY! Today’s post is all about helping you feel more comfortable being full of yourself - in all the good ways so you feel more comfortable in your skin giving your self-worth a much needed boost.
The life changing moment of seeing your life through your animal friend’s eyes
In today’s post I’d love to share about the slightly vulnerable and powerful moment in an animal communication session when your animals shift from sharing about themselves to sharing how they see your learning, growth and healing.
Plus I'll be give you few tips to help make this vulnerable moment feel heart-warmly wonderful in a way that will make Brené Brown proud.
Overcoming People pleasing & Over giving with Presence
In today’s post I’d love to share my own experience of transforming from being a floaty space cadet to grounded in the now, and how it’s helped me shake my habits of People-Pleasing and Over-giving by learning reconnect with my center.
I’ll also be giving you a simple practice to help you bring your energy back to your center and be present in the moment. If this resonates with you, I invite you to listen along…
May Integrity be at the heart of all of our interactions.
Non-appropriation pledge:
My Intuitive Healing work and spiritual 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.
