Let's Talk to Animals

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By: Shannon Cutts

Have you ever felt like your pet is trying to tell you something important and you just aren't quite getting the message? Do you sometimes wonder if your pet in spirit is sending you signs but you don't trust that it's real? Have you ever had a veterinarian tell you that your pet is healthy but your gut is telling you something is amiss? Do you have an animal in your life and the bond is so deep you feel like you've been together before?Then Let's Talk to Animals is a must-add to your podcast playlist! 🌟Now in our six...

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Pet Reiki Miracle Stories and How Reiki Can Help Your Pet Heal and Thrive
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In this episode, I take you right back to the beginning of my journey to becoming a Reiki Master practitioner for pets and their people. And I share the personal story of how I used Reiki to support my dad through hospice and end of life, PLUS two jaw-droppingly amazing pet Reiki miracle stories from my private practice to illustrate what Reiki is capable of.

As you listen, you will learn….

A brief history of Reiki, how COVID transformed how modern Reiki is taught and options for offering Reiki transmissions to p...


How EFT Tapping Can Help Your Pet Heal and Thrive
07/15/2026

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In this episode, join animal intuitive and Reiki Master Shannon Cutts for a deep dive into one of the most essential tools you can add to your modern pet parenting toolkit - Emotional Freedom Technique, or "tapping" for short. 

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Actually tap along with Shannon as she works with anxious-aggressive rescue dog, Spike, and his mom, Tricia. Learn how tapping works to reset a pet's nervous system after traumatic events and even works to help pets with high sensitivity cope. Discover the hidden link between your pet's...


Pet Reincarnation Frequently Asked Fears and Questions
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07/01/2026

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In this episode, we tackle five of the biggest “elephant in the room” fears that stop us from pursuing the joyful reunion of pet reincarnation. These are the barely-whispered questions I hear from nervous pet parents during pet sessions. If you’ve ever felt alone in your curiosity about pet reincarnation or have felt blocked from pursuing that curiosity because of fears about what others will think or whether it is even possible, this episode is just for you.

Is it selfish to want my specific soul pet back in a new body whe...


Pet Stress Vs Anxiety Vs Sensitivity - How to Tell Which One Affects Your Pet
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06/10/2026

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In this episode, Shannon walks you through the key differences between pet stress, pet anxiety and pet high sensitivity. Which one is affecting your pet? What do stressed pets, anxious pets, sensitive pets need, and how can you help your pet cope?

As you listen, you will learn….

• The signs you are dealing with pet stress vs anxiety vs sensitivity?
• Which of these three responses is normal and which is not and why
• Why our pet’s life as our companion predisposes them to stress and anxiety
• How an...


The Hero's Journey, Pet Edition - How to Empower Your Pet to Step Into Their Best Life With You
#9
05/27/2026

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When you love an animal with all your heart, you feel like you would move mountains to help them stay safe, heal and thrive. But what if this is the very mentality that is keeping your pet stuck in trauma, fear, unwellness, or just a past version of themselves? 

In this episode, we tackle the energetics of how we as pet parents relate to our pet's story of life. This is something that rarely (if ever!) gets talked about when it comes to helping anxious, traumatized, sensitive, reactive, timid or aggressive pet...


Why Does My Pet Do That? An Animal Communication Perspective on Common Pet Problems
#8
05/13/2026

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As pet parents, we have such high hopes when we choose our pet and bring them into our world and family. When things are going well, it is easy to take credit for that. When things are not going well, it is easy to blame ourselves and spiral into anxiety, fear or even hopelessness. Animal communication offers a different perspective for the question of “why does my pet do that?,” whether the issue is simply a pet who is staring at us or a pet who is visibly acting out or reacting in ways t...


Anticipatory Pet Reincarnation When Is the Right Time to Ask Your Pet to Come Back
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04/29/2026

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This episode features exciting new insights into the fledgling field of pet reincarnation right from the mouths of the pets themselves. If you are a pet parent who cannot imagine life without your soul pet, this episode is for you. If you are a pet parent who is worried you won’t be able to cope with the grief of losing your soul pet, this episode is for you. If you are an intuitive soul yourself who longs to peek behind the veil of human 3-D amnesia to glimpse the big picture of our...


A Simple 5 Step Process to Make Calmer, Clearer, Better Feeling Pet Care Choices
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04/15/2026

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Pet parenting is just getting harder as we are bombarded with too much information and too many choices. When you find yourself caught in a period of stress, worry, overwhelm or fear, this simple 5-step process is here to help you navigate from a place of calm and clarity.

As you listen, you will learn….

A big picture perspective of how we move through distress and crisis situations, what works, what doesn’t, and how to create a better-feeling, better-working process for our petsHow your own nervous system may be sabota...


How to Align Your Energy to Improve Your Animal Communication Conversations
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03/25/2026

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In this two-part series, we are taking a look at energy alignment for better bonds with your personal pets and for deeper and more insightful animal communication conversations.

In part one, we took a look at how you can align your energy to help your pet feel calm and supported through anything in life.

Here in part two, we take what you learned a step further to explore how you can align your energy during your development as an animal communicator. This exploration focuses on energy fundamentals and is su...


How to Align Your Energy to Calm and Support Your Pet Through Anything
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03/11/2026

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As pet parents, we want to offer our pets total support when they struggle or suffer. But it can feel nearly impossible to show up powerfully for our pets when we also feel anxious, afraid, frustrated and worried ourselves.

In this, part one of our two-part series on energetic alignment, we focus on equipping you with a new energetic awareness and practical toolkit to work with your own energy so you can support your pet fully.

As you listen, you will learn:

How to understand the flow of yo...


Pet Charades: Decoding Problem Pet Behaviors to Deepen Pet Trust
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02/26/2026

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This episode is a must-listen for every pet parent! Learn valuable skills to identify how your pet is trying to communicate with you through an interspecies game of charades (yes, the same game we humans like to play)!.

As you listen, you will discover:

How to view pet behavior as a type of shared language systemDifferent types of charades your pet may play with youWhy pets choose to play charades with us (and the risks involved)A biological basis for pet charades (or why evolution is at the root of it...


5 Things You Must Start Doing to Use Your Intuition to Care for Your Pet
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01/28/2026

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In this episode, learn five key habits you simply must cultivate if you want to deepen your relationship with your pet and tap into intuitive guidance for their care.

As you listen, you will discover.....

How energy moves to help you receive intuitive information from your petThe difference between companionable separation and true connectionTips to shift your perspective to see life from your pet's point of viewHow to spot signs that your pet parent intuition is sending you a messageHow to build a new neural pathway that defaults to trusting yo...


What is your Pet Word of the Year - a powerful tool to create your best life with your pet family
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01/06/2026

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In this kickoff episode for Season 7 of Let's Talk to Animals, Shannon guides you through the process of choosing a Pet Word of the Year. This process taps into your pet parent intuition and charts your course forward to create your best-ever life with your pet family. 

As you listen you will learn:

What makes the Pet Word of the Year process different - and specialHow to use this process in many important situations, from adding a new pet to the family to resolving behavior issues to helping a p...


Anticipatory and Post Transition Pet Grief and How to Navigate It
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12/17/2025

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In this transformative episode of Let's Talk to Animals podcast, animal communicator Shannon Cutts dives deep into a rarely highlighted part of our grief journey as pet parents - anticipatory grief.

As you listen you will learn:

What anticipatory grief is and how to spot it in your lifeHow undiagnosed anticipatory grief can damage your bond with your petWhy anticipatory grief happens and what to do about itHow anticipatory grief fits into the greater grief process we all go through as pet parents, guardians and carersPractical tips to us...


Developing Your Pet Parenting Sixth Sensory Toolkit
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12/03/2025

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In this episode, discover how to activate what I call "the single most overlooked tool in the modern pet parent's toolkit" - your INTUITION. In this episode, you will learn:

Why does it feel so hard to identify and trust your intuition?What can start to make it easy and FUN to reactivate your intuition!What makes intuition so powerful as an accurate daily life GPS.How to join me for a FREE workshop that will equip you to use intuition daily.And so much more....

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Last Wishes: The Most Important Conversation You Will Ever Have With Your Pet
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11/12/2025

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As pet parents, we know it is coming. For nearly all of us, we will outlive our pet, and this means we will have to navigate their end of life transition for them. But what does your pet truly want? Are they aware of what is coming in their life? Is there a way you can find out your pet's last wishes and hear from them about how they want their own death to unfold? Animal intuitive Shannon Cutts unpacks all of these questions for you through a heartfelt story of a beloved fe...


The Fundamentals of Learning Animal Communication
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10/22/2025

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The animal communication learning journey is a mysterious one from the outside looking in. But from the inside looking out, the journey begins just like any other - by building a firm foundation. In this episode, learn the key elements that set you up for a lifetime of success when talking with animals.

As you listen, you will learn....

3 key strengths that all the greatest pioneers, inventors, researchers and creatives have shared in common - and that animal communication requires4 non-negotiable essentials that are like the four pillars of...


What Really Happens, What to Expect & How to Prepare for Your Animal Communication Session
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10/08/2025

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What really happens during an animal communication session with your pet? How can you prepare to have the most positive and successful experience? In this episode, animal intuitive and animal communication teacher Shannon Cutts unpacks the anatomy of a typical animal communication session to demystify the process and help you prepare for your pet's session.

As you listen you will learn:

The basic parts of an animal communication sessionWhy choose to have an animal communication session for your petWhat animal communication can and cannot help withHow the process of...


Does Your Pet In Spirit Miss You Too?
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09/25/2025

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Does your pet in spirit miss you as much as you miss them? In this episode, we talk about what your pet wants you to know. 

In this must-listen episode, you will learn:

The real reason why pet grief is so devastatingWhere that "missing you" feeling really comes from What your pet wants you to know about what they remember and how they feel about you and your life togetherA scientific study that verifies our continued connection across time and spaceHow to help your nervous system through the pet...


Pet Soul Agreements: Do Your Pets Have Soul Contracts With Each Other?
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09/10/2025

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In this follow-up to one of our most popular episodes, we take a look at how and why your pets wind up being in your interspecies family together. Is it just random chance? Or could there be a soul agreement in place for those animals to share time together just like there is for people? Find out in this episode.

What you will learn:

How pet soul contracts are the same yet different from the soul agreements we have with our pets8 of the most common types of so...


Nervous System Co-Regulation for Pets and Their People
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08/27/2025

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Are you struggling to support a pet who is anxious, reactive, timid, or unpredictable? Do you feel like you and your pet go through cycles where one of you is always in meltdown mode? This is the episode that can begin to fix that. Animal communication teacher Shannon Cutts talks you through a deeper understanding of nervous system coherence and co-regulation so you can create a calmer, safer world for both you and your pet to share together.

In this episode you will learn:

The difference between nervous sy...


A Simple Powerful Practice You Can Do Now to Deepen Your Bond With Your Soul Pet
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08/13/2025

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In this episode, find out why, as a devoted pet parent, you may be missing the mark in trying to build trust and deepen your bond with your beloved pet. This can be especially crucial to understand if your pet has trust issues or past trauma - or if you do! 

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What your pets tell me, a professional animal communicator, that they want and crave the MOST from youWhat the pets tell me about what the word we use to describe them - pet - r...


How Learning Animal Communication Can Make You A Better Human Communicator
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07/31/2025

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In this episode, we unpack a facet of learning animal communication that nobody ever talks about - how learning animal communication improves our abilities to communicate with people, including ourselves! 

In fact, learning animal communication restores to us an aspect of language that most of us lose right around the age of two. And once we get that aspect back, our communications with other humans become clearer, more effective and more enjoyable. 

As you listen, you will learn about:

The birth language you used to communicate with...


Meet Your Pet's Power Animal Spirit Guide
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07/09/2025

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Did you know our pets also have spirit guides who watch over them, guide and help them in their life with us? 

In this fresh and fascinating new episode, hear 4 true stories of how I met the power animal spirit guides for each of the four members of my pet family.

Then learn six easy and fun tools you can quickly learn to use to invite your pet's power animal spirit guide to reveal themselves to you. 

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Should You Ask Your Pet to Reincarnate Back to You?
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05/21/2025

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As an animal communicator who specializes in pet reincarnation through joyful reunion, I am on a mission to demystify and de-woo the whole process of pet reincarnation.

One of the most frequent questions I get from grieving pet parents and the pet reincarnation curious alike is, what it is really like to live with your reincarnated pet day to day?

Will your reincarnated pet be exactly the same as they were last time? If your reincarnated pet is different than they were before, what does that mean and how ca...


What It Is Really Like Living With Your Reincarnated Pet
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04/30/2025

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As an animal communicator who specializes in pet reincarnation through joyful reunion, I am on a mission to demystify and de-woo the whole process of pet reincarnation.

One of the most frequent questions I get from grieving pet parents and the pet reincarnation curious alike is, what it is really like to live with your reincarnated pet day to day?

Will your reincarnated pet be exactly the same as they were last time? If your reincarnated pet is different than they were before, what does that mean and how ca...


Animal Telepathy versus Animal Communication How It All Works
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04/16/2025

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After decades of being sidelined as too woo, a sleeper hit podcast by Ky Dickens called The Telepathy Tapes has brought telepathy into mainstream conversation.

Our human consciousness is shifting and evolving at last. What does that mean for our own evolution as human animals and our efforts to give everyone a voice, regardless of species? 

Animal intuitive and animal communication teacher Shannon Cutts of Animal Love Languages unpacks this tangled topic in this episode of Let's Talk to Animals podcast. 

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Boost Your Pet Parent Empathy to Reduce Pet Trauma During Routine and Urgent Care
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03/19/2025

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Do you ever feel like you can't help scaring, upsetting or even traumatizing your pet during routine and urgent care? 

Is curbing unwanted or dangerous pet behaviors impacting the deep bond you and your pet share? 

Not to worry - the Holistic Cat Specialist is here to help!

Tune in as Shannon chats with Paola Zanibelli Davies about simple small shifts you can make at home that can have a big positive ripple effect in your pet's life with you.

During this episode, we talk thro...


8 Types of Pet Soul Agreements Which One Do You Have
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03/05/2025

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What are pet soul agreements (or soul contracts)? Do all animals share a soul contract with humans? What about soul agreements between pets in your family? If you have been curious about how soul agreements work, this is definitely the episode for you!

In this episode, you will learn:
🌟 The 8 main pet soul contract archetypes
🌟 Clues for each type of pet soul contract to find your type
🌟 How pet soul agreements work and how you know you have one
🌟 Mechanics of soul agreements between pets in your family
🌟 I...


What Animals Say About Enduring Trauma and Abuse from Humans
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02/19/2025

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Here on Let's Talk to Animals, the animals are the real podcast hosts. In this episode, we begin by unpacking a listener's question. If animals are perfect souls, why would they agree to come here to Earth and endure trauma, abuse, hoarding and abandonment at the hands of imperfect humans? 

As an animal communicator and animal communication teacher, I always bring your questions straight to the animals for their response. Learn what the animals shared with me about:

🌟What it's like to come into a body and the challenges it hol...


Canine Conversations for Beautiful Behavior and Healthy Interspecies Bonds
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02/05/2025

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Here on Let's Talk to Animals, we are champions of animal communication any way it can happen. This week on the podcast, we explore a unique and vital facet of interspecies communication with Pete Campione, author of Canine Conversations and owner of Kindred Souls Canine Center.

In this episode, Pete and I explore topics like these (and so much more!):
🌟 Why the word "training" can be so misleading to dog parents
🌟 The one thing you should absolutely do before adopting a new dog
🌟 How Pete began to understa...


Five Unique Ways Your Pet Can Tell You They Plan to Reincarnate
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02/04/2025

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In this episode, created as a complement to the episode two weeks ago, you will learn about five unique ways your pet in spirit may choose to let you know they plan to reincarnate back to you in a new body for a joyful reunion.

You will learn:
🌟 5 very real methods a pet may use to deliver a "packet of clues" so you can find them in their new body.
🌟 What you can do to be more receptive to your pet in spirit's messages.
🌟 How the initial grief experience...


Pet Reincarnation How It Really Works to Call Your Soul Pet Back
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01/08/2025

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In this episode, animal intuitive and pet reincarnation specialist Shannon Cutts walks you through the basics of how pet reincarnation really works. 

You will learn:

Why pet reincarnation is not a logical process (although it has a certain logic to it)The one step grieving pet parents most frequently overlook that makes all the differenceWhat timelines can look like and why some pets return quickly while others may take months or years to come back into a new bodyThe biggest determinant of success in calling your pet back to you thr...


Part Two of How a Lost Turtle Led to a Miraculous Love Story of Pet Reincarnation
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12/18/2024

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We pick up the story where we left off two weeks ago with a missing animal family member, an aching heart and far more questions than answers.

If you have ever had a pet go missing, and especially if their disappearance was never satisfactorily resolved, the continuation of this two-parter podcast episode is just for you.

Animal communication adds so much depth to the journey because it allows for the missing animal to share their why as well as their possible whereabouts. And sometimes, what a pet has to sa...


How a Lost Turtle Led to a Miraculous Love Story of Pet Reincarnation
#23
12/04/2024

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It is amazing enough to be living with ONE reincarnated pet in the family. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine our interspecies family would include TWO reincarnated pets.

If you have ever had a pet go missing, this episode was recorded just for you. It can be a horrifying experience, especially when the missing pet is not recovered. 

In this episode, I walk you through how I dealt with the disappearance of first one animal and then another, how their stories intertwined and how I worked with ani...


Why Your Connection With Your Soul Pet Feels So Different and Special
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11/13/2024

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Every so often, a very special pet may join your family. This pet just seems different somehow. Maybe you feel like they just know you or understand you in a way even other people in your life never have.

And before long, you can't imagine your life without that pet in it.

In this special, long-awaited episode, animal communicator and pet reincarnation specialist Shannon Cutts answers questions like these:

🌟 What makes this connection with your pet feel so different and special?
🌟 What the word "pet" really means to...


How Developing Your Intuition Can Make You a Better Pet Parent
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10/30/2024

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Intuition is a prized survival tool for both wild animals and our domesticated companion animals. Out of all the species alive on Earth right now, only one species downplays the importance of intuitive development - homo sapiens.

That's right, human animals just like you and me. So if you are not too sure how intuition can help you care for or parent your pet, you are in very good company! Most humans just haven't learned why intuition matters, let alone how to activate their inner iOS (intuitive operating system).

Th...


How Your Pet Picked You and the Lesson You Are Meant to Learn Together
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10/23/2024

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When people talk about soulmates, we usually mean a special bond we feel with another human. 

But pet soulmates are just as real - and just as much a part of our soul family!

My pet parent clients often ask me for help understanding the lessons their pet wants to teach them. And for my clients who are seeking to reunite with a departed pet through pet reincarnation, they also ask about how they can identify their reincarnated pet in their new body.

In this episode, I tak...


True Stories from My Animal Communication Case Files
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10/09/2024

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Animal communication conversations are some of the neatest conversations you will ever have in your life. "Never a dull moment," as one of my students describes it.

Talking with animals gives us a fresh set of glasses through which to see our regular everyday world, turning the ordinary into wonder and delight - and often, laughter!

In this episode, I share true stories from my personal animal communication case files. In particular, you hear about:

🌟 The first animal I ever talked with and how it was so not w...


How Learning Animal Communication Can Change Your Life
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09/25/2024

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This episode is for you if you have ever felt the weight of your own mind trying to talk you out of your dreams or bucket list goals.

Maybe you have a recurring thought that you want to learn to talk to animals. But then your mind tells you that you are too old, too young, too busy, too new to the field to make an impact, too whatever to give it a try.

I get it. I have been there too. 

For every reason why...