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Animal Communication

Sometimes it’s Simple or Don’t Be a Hypochondriac

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I wrote an article in Dogs Naturally magazine about sometimes what is ailing our animals has a  simple solution.

As animal parents, when our babies don’t feel well or appear to have something wrong, the first reaction is panic. Lots of panic. And if we have experienced loss, there’s often fear of losing are animals that flashes through our minds and hearts.

My animals are just like people and have ongoing little things that their bodies like to express. Just like I have seasonal allergies, so do they. Emma’s chronic ear issues have kept the veterinarian happy. After all, those big floppy ears love to attract all kinds of things. They are soft and comfy. Sarah has to deal with older dog issues. I worry about my parakeets because they are getting older, just like Sarah is. But the parakeets are such a mystery to me, having more knowledge of dogs.

Bun-Bun, (short for Abundance), is my opinionated and talkative girl. She had a problem with her cere when it looked swollen back in June. Imagine my embarrassment when I found out she was simply in breeding season.

Prosperity, (not short for anything), is my social boy. His cere had gotten darker gradually the last few months. He spends most of his day with his face submerged in the food bowl, while Bun-Bun likes talking away sitting by the toys.

As a responsible animal parent, I did the logical thing and did a search on the internet. Bad idea. Being a sensitive and creative person, I am also very imaginative and my feelings can run away from myself. The internet is a great source of info but also can be daunting when you are trying to find symptoms = which disease.

I read a dark beak was a sign of cancer! Oh f%$#! Are you serious? It could also be a hormonal imbalance. Okay, who doesn’t have that?

I am so grateful for animal communication. I mean, I really am. I tuned in to Prosperity and to my Guides for extra information while in a calm, relaxed state. ( I had just had a bath.) What I heard and felt was that it was minor what he had, and “outer layers”  not disease, and that he needed a little bath of water which would help. Oh, and more leaves. They love leaves.

I “kept getting” that he needed to wash off that cere. THAT’S animal communication, my dears. He was telling me all along.

I searched through my shallow, narrow bowls that I could put into their extra cage. Prosperity loved it! And a week later, you know what? His beak is BLUE! It’s not a dark brown. He was healed! Bun-Bun checked out the water, and moved to the other side of the cage. Bun-Bun pretty much doesn’t like anything.

For validation I suppose, that same week I had the problem with Prosperity, I had several animal clients having what looked like serious symptoms that turned out to be simple explanations. Sometimes they are allergic to the new pipe stove fumes, or the new food is irritating, or they just need a bath. 🙂

And if you can trust your guidance and what you get through animal communication, then you will trust it when it is more serious and you will know what to do.

Want to learn more? Sign up for the COM102 Animal Communication class.

Animal Communication · Animals

Signs you have a sensitive pet

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If you are sensitive, chances are you have a sensitive animal companion. My Sarah is my poster child for sensitivity. She mirrors me often and has many of the same empathic characteristics.

7 Signs of a Sensitive Pet:

  1. Sensitive digestion. Like me, if I introduce a new food into my diet suddenly, or if I eat something I shouldn’t, OR I am emotionally upset or nervous, my stomach will cry out loud and clear. Same thing for Sarah.
  2. Sensitive to medication and chemicals. Sarah will react to strong antibiotics, aspirin, and a little painkiller goes far. Too much will cause problems, that’s why many holistic and natural methods work best for her.
  3. Sensitive to emotions. Sarah is super empathic and will pick up when I am upset hours before I even realize it. She needs to learn how not to carry my stuff.
  4. Sensitive to change. As long as our schedule is consistent our life goes swimmingly well. If I am out most the day when I ordinarily am not, I will come home to a very agitated Sarah and lots of protesting messes.
  5. Sensitive to energies. Sarah will be the first one to know if there is a visiting spirit in the house.

Just like with people, there are lots of tools you can add to your repertoire to assist your sensitive pet. Sign up and start any Friday Fairy Online School Friday the combo teleclass (audio lessons) and written lessons CARE OF THE SENSITIVE PET! Offered all through October with minimum homework and lots of information and help for your friend.

Animal Communication · Saturday Sketchbook · whimsical illustration

Sketchbook Saturday

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Spiritual lessons with fun art. Pages from my art journal shared on Saturdays.

And now for something completely different…

Because my “thing” is art coupled with mini lessons, I’ve started Sketchbook Saturday. The best way to hear your animals with animal communication? Through your love connection and LISTENING. Quiet your mind to hear their voices.

Sarah teaches me patience every day. She reminds me to SLOOOOW DOWN or I will be just bumping around into walls.

My parakeets teach me to always have fun, and to ask for what I need even if it’s with a loud ACK! ACK! ACK!

Speedy helps me practice spotting and feeling energy. We often play hide and seek.

What do your animals teach you?

Animal Communication · spiritual lessons

Is Your Animal Mirroring You and the Most Important Lesson I teach…

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This is a story about how our animals are powerful mirrors for us and take on our stuff, but it is also a story about trust.

I often write about my dog girls and my other animal companions, Speedy the tortoise and Bun-Bun and Prosperity, the parakeets. I love my animal family but I do think that sometimes they are trying to prematurely gray me. I am sure that is not their intent, but rather they are desperately trying to teach me.

Sarah, my elderly beagle mix, has arthritis and some other aging concerns, but is doing amazingly well for a dog her age. Part of that is because she tends to push herself, just like her human mother, and ignores any physical limitations, insisting she is way younger than she is. She jumps up and down off the bed, which incidentally, her current veterinarian looked in amazement at me when I told her this. And sometimes, just like people, she moves or jumps wrong and the whole dog system goes out of whack. This is what happened the other morning.

When I saw her hunched over and limping, I did what most dog parents do, I panicked. Panicking is usually my first option for dogs in distress situations. I tried to tune in and hear her with animal communication and heard “twist, twist” and felt something is out of whack somewhere. I also clearly heard “arnica” for homeopathy but I didn’t have that in the house. Emma was witnessing all this and I heard her say that Sarah would be fine, reassuring me.

I didn’t trust any of this at the time because, after all, I was panicking. I grabbed for the computer. It would have the answers! In my search through doggy symptoms, I managed to increase my panic to a new level, and had clearly decided Sarah had the first signs of cancer, especially since I remembered and was now reliving when our beloved beagle-basset had passed from bone disease in 1998. Clearly, fear was pushing major buttons of loss, illness, and prior trauma. At this point, possibly to counteract my hysteria, Sarah was calm and relaxed and not limping, but sore. I could relax more, but my mind wasn’t cooperating. At dinner, in her excitement for food, she paced more, probably aggravating the injury or whatever was going on in her body when she began to limp again and this time began circling frantically. She does have a balance issue she lives with, so my fears said that her inner ear issue had gotten much, much worse. It wasn’t the back at all!

Thank goodness at this point, guidance swooped in suggesting to check in with my Facebook friends. I love my Facebook friends and my pals in one online group I belong to, so I posted about Sarah’s condition on the group’s page and on my timeline. A big thanks and a hug to my one student/colleague who came along and gave her immediate impressions. Miraculously, she heard the word “twist” and things pulled out of whack, too. She also kept hearing Arnica would be very good for the situation and she also felt the same areas I felt that hurt on Sarah, the back and right side. Confirmation later came again with a fellow animal communicator friend the next day. We were both clearly hearing Sarah, even down to the same words she or guidance was providing.

What was really interesting about Sarah’s back attack was that two days before I had sat too long at the computer in a disjointed way, so when I moved to get up, I pulled my right hip and lower back out. That really hurt and I was desperately trying to stretch out the imbalance by doing yoga moves on the floor and trying to walk it off. Luckily, I felt much better pretty quickly.

A day or two passed after Sarah’s back injury, and she was back to her normal jumping up and down off the bed, back straightened out. The situation brought out fears and past pains I probably needed to clear out. This time around, unlike in the past, support was immediately there and I am very grateful for that change. Following logic was my best defense and seeking out good support was my other. But most importantly, what really hit home as the big lesson was to trust what I get or hear, not listen to fear. Ironically, as a teacher, I am always reminding my students of this. “Trust your gut, your guidance and your animal,” I tell them. Fear will fog up what you know. I guess the teacher needed the lesson this time.

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Reconnecting to Everyday Joy and Miracles this week

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Back in 2005, I started Fairy Online School. I was burnt out and tired in my intuitive biz from all the sadness I encountered, and I was going through lots of psychic, expansion changes. I needed support for my sensitivity and quite simply, a little joy to raise my spirits back up. In came that delicious fairy energy, and with it, my love for Nature, and the discovery of my first flower essence I created to heal.

What exactly is fairy energy? I believe we all have it deep down inside. It’s that joyful, playful part we had as children. It’s interested in discovery and gets excited over finding an inch worm on a leaf. It’s grounded in Nature and in our environment and our senses. It’s also that little bit of silly that has you laughing at inappropriate times when you need the humor the most.

This time of year, I always think of my mom, who crossed over in 1995, but is still a pretty active, visiting spirit.  When I was growing up, my mom shared with me the little delights in the world–collecting tiny toys for the holidays; having a hidden stash of candy to dip into; noticing the picture in the clouds; following  that cute, little inch worm on the leaf; and enjoying a good story. It’s the little things we can focus on to bring back the joy into our lives to keep us afloat when everything else in our world is crazy, and boy, life sure has been crazy!

I told my good friend the other day, if this is really end times, I want to go out drawing, snuggling my dogs, eating pizza and cupcakes every day! That’s the fairy way.

Fairy Online School is the marriage between that re-connection we have with the spiritual world that is filled with miracles, awe, and support, and the creating and enjoying with fairy energy as we learn!

I invite you to join us with the many from all over the world reconnecting to miracles, to those we think we lost, to new friends of support this Friday when Fairy Online School starts its new session. Develop your natural, intuitive abilities while having fun, and most importantly, reconnect to you! Head on over to this page to reserve your space in the classes of your choice that start Friday. (Go sign up for my newsletter, Fairy Blessings, and you receive a special fairy discount on classes).

Animal Communication · Animals · e-learning · empath · empath mentoring · empaths · online courses · psychic intuitive website · psychic mentoring · sensitivity · Spirits

We Learn What We Need to Teach and Insects in Dreams

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I am finding that whatever I am meant to teach at the time, I will be learning. Sometimes these lessons come gently and easily and other times, a little stronger.

Tonight I am teaching a teleclass on Better Boundaries for Sensitives. This is THE topic that as Empaths we need to tackle. As an empath, I have the ability to merge with an animal or person and retrieve a ton of information. There is deep connection there. It can feel pretty glorious, and give me great compassion and understanding for another. I can also do this with a spirit in the room or even a friend sitting across from me. This is all good. Having this skill makes life deep and rich.

It’s the unmerging that takes a long time to learn and isn’t a  skill we are taught in this world. We need to go back to our own center with separate boundaries.  I’ve been actively busy learning these skills as time goes on.

I visited a friend’s house and farm yesterday. To the outside eye, the place looked peaceful and quiet with animals strolling about. But to me, his place was buzzing with lots of spirits and energies. I was wide open and immediately heard messages. His animals were busy gabbing away at me also. I wasn’t overwhelmed, just very busy during the visit. When I got home though, I had LOTS of visitors and dreamt about all kinds of insects invading my space.

Insects in dreams can be a psychic metaphor for psychic invaders, leftover “other people’s stuff” and empathic cast-offs. Oops. Not a bad thing to connect, but I forgot to close down and clear out. In my dream state I could do that. Kinda like taking my container and emptying it out.

Other indications that you’re invaded by others’ stuff are dreams of intruders in rooms in your house or doors being wide open.

It’s not dangerous being a sensitive or an empath. It’s a gift, but we do need excellent self-care and maintenance which includes some new tools and skills.

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To learn more psychic skills and tools, sign up today for a Fairy Online School class, such as the Care of the Sensitive class, Spirit Communication 1 or Animal Communication 1.

Animal Communication · Animals · empath · empaths · psychic tips · sensitivity · spiritual lessons

The Used Car Salesman Personality

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Yesterday, I received a phonecall at 8 a.m. from a salesman from a web hosting company. He was perky and happy, and I was cranky and still hadn’t had breakfast. Immediately I felt his energy as if I was getting caught up in a strong wave in the ocean–I was deep under, pressured, and overwhelmed. He asked me a great deal of questions so I didn’t have space or time to even squeak in a “not interested.” He must have been looking down at a list of notes when he said, “So, you have just the one website? Fairyonlineschool.com?” I played dumb. I had over 6 months ago dissolved that website and morphed it into this one. “Sure,” I said, but I was deeply irritated. He hadn’t done the least bit of research on my company to see what I needed and what my company was about.

“Wouldn’t you love to have a company go over your site and make sure you have the right key words, etc.?” Now, I hate all that left brain marketing stuff. (Yes, some of it is necessary.) It may work for some companies, but I explained, “I have a very niche business with a specific audience and I seem to be reaching them. I need to do more of what I’ve been doing.”

“Yes, of course…” He went on and on not hearing me.

This pissed me off more. Here I am in a business that specializes in hearing people and even hearing the layers underneath of people, and all I could feel was that used car salesman mentality: he just wanted to make the sale and get the car off the lot. Who cares if a month ahead I’d find that the radiator leaks and the starter sucks and I’m miserable with the car?

I’ve met this personality before outside of business, and I’m sure you have,  and it’s irritating and upsetting. The question that comes to mind is, “where are my needs even in this picture?!” As empaths, we are so used to feeling others’ needs and wanting to help and please, maybe we even forget we have any needs in the first place! The salesman comes along to give you a gentle or not so gentle reminder: Oops, I forgot my needs again! Oh man, again? So focused on others, we get lost in the pleasing tornado. We are supremely juicy to a salesman when we are out of balance. We will buy that lemon car and be resentful and pissy for months, or even years.

We are supremely juicy to a salesman when we are out of balance.

The antidote is to know and state your needs, instead of ignoring them, or do what I do, which is whine and be bitchy when my needs are forgotten along the line. I suggest using what I call the EMMA LOU METHOD. Now there’s the Sedona Method and a bunch of others, but this one really works. When Emma Lou, my basset hound, has a need and wants to get her need met she:

a. puts her head in my hands gently to instigate a petting when she needs it

b. jumps up and sits on my lap when she needs attention

c. is naughty and steals food to get my attention

I don’t recommend the aggressive “c” tactic as it’s almost as bad and aggressive as the used car salesman technique. Tactic “a” is a nice one that simply states I need this and it’s up to you if you can give it to me or not. This is a great way to make your needs known while respecting others’ needs. Most humans can not use tactic “b” as it falls under the category of “awkward.”

Try it out. See how it works for you. I’m sure I will come up with a workshop and a best-selling book on the method, and then I will surely need an aggressive used-car salesman personality to sell it for me. Your phone may be ringing soon.

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To read more posts visit my new website’s Sensitive Artist blog here. and do check out my Help! I’m Sensitive book series there.

Animal Communication · Animals · dog stories · healing

Read My Article!

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Yay! So exciting… I just received my copy of Dogs Naturally magazine with my article, When Your Animal is Ill: The Importance of Listening. It reads great! I really like the magazine and am impressed with the informative articles on homeopathy and other natural ways to heal our dogs. To get your copy and to subscribe go here.

Animal Communication · Animals

Fear and psychic ability

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My dog, Sarah, just got back test results that says her liver is off. I’ve been an animal communicator professionally for almost twelve years and, this gives hope to beginning students, I still have moments of doubt when working with my own animal, especially when dealing with FEAR.

FEAR sucks. FEAR is one of those biggies that get in the way when trying to connect psychically. We doubt big what we get when:

  1. we are hoping/wanting an answer (I can’t do pendulums. They swing however I want vs. correct answers.)
  2. we are fearing a particular answer

Many times fear from the past gets in the way. Sarah, being an older dog, has been having accidents in the house. Immediately, FEAR steps in and I think KIDNEY. After a long battle with kidney disease that was really awful, we lost Foxy. I didn’t want that path for Sarah. So, when I checked in with her, sometimes, I’d think, maybe it’s kidney but I’m blocking that answer. My gut didn’t say that though, and gratefully, her kidney levels are fine.

There’s something about being that close to our “client” that makes it harder to read our own animal when the fear comes in. And often times, we aren’t meant to hear an answer yet. One of my closest friends’ dog was very ill. None of us received psychically that she had cancer but her body was riddled with it. In that case, it was best that she didn’t know.

I don’t feel that this time with Sarah. Something doesn’t feel right with the possible diagnoses.

I remember way back when Foxy was with us, she collapsed in the backyard with high liver levels. The vet went on and on about advanced liver disease, but I heard a simpler answer. She had just had heartworm medication that it appeared to me that she strongly reacted to.  She communicated to me “Medicine! Medicine!” Advanced liver disease was cured over night with this answer.

I find this all ironic because one of the biggest challenges my Fairy Online School students relate is not trusting what they get. “Did I make that up or did I hear my animal?” is a big concern. I always tell them to trust their gut, especially the empaths and the sensitives. That they will know what feels like a definite “yes” and truth, and what is their own mind with practice.

It is best to try to communicate with your animal, then, when you are clearer and calmer and in a more neutral space. I’ll probably go take a walk in Nature, or paint to hear clearly and get past that wall of fear I am having. THEN I’ll tune in to Sarah. Many times it will be easier then to reach me with true guidance and information.

 

Animal Communication · Animals

Animals and negatives

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It’s Friday, and most Fridays–I’ve been a little lax–are Fairy Online School preview days. The next session is coming up the end of the month, and in June, so now’s the time to sign up.

Today I am featuring the Animal Communication Online Class. This mini-lesson is about Negatives.

Emma Lou, my dog-daughter, helped me with this lesson today. She’s sitting next to me at my desk in the fuzzy armchair. Unfortunately, she is directly in front of my desk drawer where I need to grab a mailing label. I said to her, “Don’t move your head.” I kept saying this in my head. If she moved her head she would bunk it against the open drawer. I thought she was sleeping. Sure enough, she picked her head up, a bit startled, and bunked her head.

Animal communication gone horribly wrong? Sorta.

Animals don’t know negatives. It’s the english language that adds fun things like “no” and “can’t” and “don’t.” What the heck? Emma heard me loudly sending “Move your head.” Startled, she did just that. Poor baby. She’s okay, by the way.

You want your animal not to do something, focus on what you want them to do and send that thought.

It’s like working the secrets of manifesting, so this is a good exercise on focusing on what you want vs. what you don’t want. We are so good at focusing on what we don’t want.

This is a tough one to crack. It takes lots of practice. I still find myself doing the opposite with my animals and I teach this! Arggh. But this was a good reminder, yet painful for my baby.

Intrigued? Want to learn more? Sign up for the Animal Communication class here.