Having doubts about our abilities to learn and master a skill is a normal part of any learning process. As you are remembering, opening up to and practicing your telepathic abilities to communicate with animals, don’t give up when doubts creep in! Acknowledge any doubts [read more]

   ~ Having a Conversation WITH an Animal vs. Doing a Reading ABOUT an Animal ~ The focus of my consultations is creating interactive, mutually respectful conversations with animals and their people versus one-way “psychic readings” of an animal’s energy. A good psychic reading is [read more]

There exists a longstanding prejudice in most cultures that we should not love animals as much or more 
 than we love people. And, that if we have extraordinarily close relationships with animals
 something is wrong with our ability to relate healthily to humans. 
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My two green-cheek conures, Jade and Emerald (Emmie), lived with me for six years. When they came to my home, I had other birds so there was a small “flock” in our house. Over a five year period, the other little birds passed one by [read more]

 We mark with light in our memory the few relationships we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we know, that gave us leave to be what we inly were. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [read more]

It was time for Ryan (my golden retriever and best friend) to go. He had lived 14 wise and wonderful years by my side and we were reluctant to part. We finally agreed that if he couldn’t go on his own over the weekend, I [read more]

On July 31, 2008, near the time of the Big Sur fires of 2008 becoming contained, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lt. Rosanna Leighton, who at the time was a member of the Humane Investigations department of the SPCA for Monterey County in California. [read more]

Experiencing the pain of grief when we lose a deeply beloved animal is inevitable. However long our grief continues, and whether we feel we are adequately coping with our sorrow or barely able to deal with anguish or despair, every reaction to loss is normal, [read more]

When our beloved animals are very ill, or have already left their physical bodies, it can be quite meaningful and healing to connect with them at the deepest level of their soul, to communicate with them from the deepest level of our emotional hearts. To [read more]

In these troubling, unprecedented times, we may feel scared, anxious, worried, grief stricken and/or overwhelmed. As I have personally cycled through all of these feelings and hear from others feeling the same, I’ve been thinking a great about what energies can support us as we [read more]