Field notes on releasing silent pain, calming anxiety, and helping the animals you love thrive — grounded in veterinary science and gentle, hands-on healing.
Rising to Challenges is essential in today’s world. If you fall, your pets fall too! Rising to challenges is something I’ve not always been good at. I used to be pretty good at collapsing in the face of challenges, actually. That caused me all sorts of problems until I learned that rising to challenges is…
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Embracing this life is essential. How well are you doing this? Embracing this life is what makes this life worthwhile, whole, and healed. It’s another one of these incredibly important things that are simple, but not always easy. Life brings you all sorts of experiences. The more uncomfortable the experiences are, the harder they tend…
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REGAINING MOMENTUM is something we all need to do, most of the time. Regaining momentum is essential. If you suck at this, your life will suck, and you’ll be ripping your pets off. There are always things that happen (large and small) that mean we have to stop. Illness, injuries, emergencies, or even just the…
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Allowing Grace is a sure-fire way to make your life easier and happier (and benefits your pets too) Allowing grace is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Allowing means that you give yourself permission to experience and enjoy grace in your life. That’s the first step. Because there is always grace available to you.
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TAKING RESPONSIBILITY is a key step for all healing, growth, and evolution. Taking responsibility is the key. For me, it’s been the key to healing from CFS/Lyme. For getting my relationship with my pets into the best place ever. And so many more good things. I didn’t always use to be good at taking responsibility.
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LISTENING DEEPLY is one of the most important things I do, all the time, in my life and with my pets! Listening deeply makes a real, positive impact in your life, and everything you do that makes your life better makes your pet’s life better too. It’s a skill. You need to learn and practice…
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Harmonious Healing is grace-filled. No drama, just increased well-being, happiness, and vitality. I’ve been working in the healing arts for 25+ years. For many of those years, I had some belief systems that made my healing and personal evolution journey, shall we say, ‘less than comfortable’. There were elements of ‘no pain, no gain’, ‘healing…
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HEALTHY YES! The more you do it, the better you get at it, and then everyone WINS. (Including your pets) I used to be awful at HEALTHY YES. I took the easy way, ate comfort food, avoided exercise, and ended up seriously ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for more than 20 years. I had to…
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BUILDING COHERENCE is a worthy project that’ll bring only good things for your pets, and for you. Building coherence is something that I am continually aware of, continually putting intelligent effort into, and refining my practices and processes. Let’s start with diving into the definitions of these words. Building means ‘to produce or create gradually’, or ‘to…
Read article → GROUNDED PRESENCE is a muscle that helps you and your pets increase resilience and happiness! This time of year, leading into Xmas is so CRAZY. Intensity, pressure, and I see a lot of people struggling one way or another with life, with family, with financial pressures, or with the world at large. My antidote to…
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Gentle Curiosity will help you in more ways than you can imagine! I have found that living with a mindset of gentle curiosity has been one of the most powerful things I have ever tried when it comes to supporting healing, vitality, and happy, harmonious life with ongoing healthy growth. Before I dig into why,…
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Soul Purpose. Do You Live Yours? And… Are You Supporting Your Pet In Living Their Soul Purpose? I didn’t know it, but I was desperately seeking my own soul purpose for so many years of pain, struggle, suffering, and illness. I just knew that I was unhappy a lot of the time, and that my…
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PRESENCE and PATIENCE are my keys to teaching, training, and building deep, trusting relationship with my animals. Presence and patience are guiding lights! For me, presence is the foundation of everything I do, and all of who I am in this life. If I am not present, then I can’t understand what is happening around…
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JOY and WORK are pure magic when you get them active in your life in healthy way! Joy and Work are two of the absolute cornerstones of my life. I actively work at creating and maintaining a strong momentum, expression of, and experience of joy in my life. I treat joy like a muscle, and…
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Chaos and Harmony are forces of nature. Are you at the mercy of them? If so, your pets are in trouble! I have to admit that I love harmony – but at the same time, while I’m pretty good at creating it, I do have a challenge in maintaining it. And I have struggled most of…
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Heart and Endurance are more important than you might realise. I had a challenging weekend. Painful body, grumpy mind, feeling like everything was awful, no matter where I looked. I could only see the bad. I was doing everything I could to shift my mood, but nothing much was helping. Then I started thinking about heart…
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EXPANSION and contraction – the deepest rhythm of life for you and your pets? Life starts with the expansion of fertilisation, the first cell divisions, and continues inside the mother’s uterus until the contractions birth the new life out into the world. Then this living being’s new life begins with their first breath – an…
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Patience and Kindness are your pet’s best friends! Let’s dig into the definition and meanings of patience and kindness before we dive into some juicy discussion! Patience: a) the will or ability to wait or endure without complaint and b) steadiness, endurance, or perseverance in the performance of a task. The deeper meaning is bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant. When it comes to your animals, this…
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Boundaries and Safety are fundamental needs that humans often fail to provide for their pets (and for themselves) My life, in many ways, has been an exploration and evolution of boundaries and safety. The stronger, clearer, and healthier I have made my understanding and expression of boundaries and safety, the happier and healthier my life, and…
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Presence and flexibility are necessary ingredients to keep you and your pets happy and healthy. Simple as that! When I was younger, I was all over the place – disorganized, flakey, and unable to focus. This meant that I struggled to create a harmonious life. Presence and flexibility were almost completely lacking for me – I simply…
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Determination and Consistency are necessary for a happy, healthy, secure pet (and they help you be well and happy too!) At The Healing Vet, I like to help people understand that your beloved pets are complex, living, feeling, intelligent beings. If you have a dog, a cat, or any kind of pet, you need to…
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Regulating and Co-Regulating Yourself and Your Pets into Healthy Relaxation A SIMPLE CO-REGULATION SELF CARE PRACTICE YOU CAN USE ANY TIME! Co-regulation is the simple practice of finding a calm, regulated state within ourselves and allowing this to influence those around us in a gentle and harmonious way. We can use co-regulation to…
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The First Step Towards Creating The Best Possible Relationship With Your Dogs: Exploding The Alpha Myth Your dogs deserve to be free, happy, and sensible: the trap of the ‘Alpha‘ mindset does untold harm to this! The idea of domination being powerful, desirable, and the only way to succeed in life is deeply, deeply embedded in…
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Animal Communication and Energy Healing have real, measurable benefits for your pets (and for you) I grew up in a very conservative community. Out in the bush, where intuitive awareness was not even on the radar, let alone the ‘WOO’ that many people seem to think that Animal Communication and Energy Healing is. I…
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Empathy – A Doorway to Connect With and to Heal Your Pet Empathy is a natural gift that all living beings share. Empathy is a sensory pathway or awareness, something that you can experience within your body. The wilder an animal, the more sensitive their empathic sensory awareness is. The more domesticated an animal (or…
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How to breed healthy happy (purebreed) dogs is a HUMAN problem There has been all sorts of kerfuffle this week about the new laws in Norway – the breeding of bulldogs and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels has been outlawed on animal welfare grounds. To say this has caused a big, stinky uproar would be a…
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Matter and Energy – The Two Sides Of True Healing Healing is a return to the natural state of any living being – balance, harmony, homeostasis, vitality, or wholeness. Whenever there is disease of any kind present or active, the living being has moved away from its natural state, and into a state of imbalance.
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With bodywork, when you touch one thing, you touch everything Your animal is a conscious, living, feeling being who is embedded into their physical body. The physical body holds and experiences the animal’s life. Everything that happens has a profound effect on the physical body. The physical body cannot be divided from the mental, emotional,…
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If you have a reactive dog and want to help them learn how to be calm and at peace in the face of triggers, you can make a huge difference with intentional touch. I have helped many owners of reactive dogs move to huge improvement, or even totally cleared the problem with healing bodywork (the…
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Anxiety and trauma in animals – Healing the body/mind connection Healing anxiety and trauma in pets is easier than you might think. For effective healing, you need to understand how trauma gets patterned into the body/mind system. All trauma is experienced by the whole being. It is experienced through all of the sensory modalities…
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Silent pain often drives aggressive and reactive behaviour Silent pain – neck pain, back pain, and soft tissue (neuro-fascial) pain can be a cause of aggression and reactivity in animals with behaviour issues. Especially reactivity and aggression. Those dogs who lunge at other dogs on the lead, snap and snarl at other dogs who come…
Read article → Understanding Your Pet’s Arousal/Relaxation Axis Anxiety is simply arousal with nowhere to go. An anxious animal is experiencing an arousal response triggered by a non-life-threatening stimulus. Often after the anxious animal is triggered into anxiety (even after the stimulus is gone), they cannot regulate back into a healthy state of relaxation. Anxiety is a disease…
Read article → Loving touch in and of itself is deeply healing. Aside from the comfort and communication of connection and support, touch releases all sorts of beneficial hormones in both the being doing the touching, and the being who is being touched. There is a deep, deep connection that is comforting, relaxing, strengthens the immune system, and…
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