On asking what your senior animal is thinking — and what you're really asking.
There is one true question that arrives with almost every senior animal near the end of life: what is their perspective on things? It sounds like it's asking for information. Usually it's asking for something else — permission.
Read MoreGrief doesn't wait for the loss to happen, and it doesn't come with a script either way. Here are the questions that tend to open the door to real comfort in a pet loss session — whether you're anticipating a goodbye or already living with one.
Read MoreWhat should you actually ask in a session about your pet's wellbeing? Here's how to ask the questions that get you real, useful answers — about food, pain, aging, and everything in between.
Read MoreWhat comes through in an animal communication session isn't the final word — it's a place to start looking. Here's what years with my own dog Stanley taught me about listening past what I already knew.
Read MoreWhat the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
A shelter volunteer and pet psychic walks two dogs, gets ignored by one, and stumbles into a lesson about presence, attention, and what it means to finally stop talking and listen.
Read MoreWhat to Look For, and Why More Than One Perspective Is Okay
I wasn't the first person to sit with this one cat. I wouldn't be the last, either. Here's what that taught me about choosing — and trusting — an animal communicator.
Read MoreOn Presence, Pet Loss, and the Conversations We Almost Miss
Your animal has a perspective on what's happening — on life, on death, on what comes next. An animal communicator shares what she learned when she finally stopped managing and started listening.
Read MoreWhat the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
My last walk of the day was a new arrival. In the isolation kennel — the place I would want to be if I were scared. No name, no notes.
Read MoreWhat the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
When I arrived, Bella was gone. Nobody at the shelter knows what I do beyond the leash and the poo bags. But something else happens in the middle of it. As an animal communicator, this is how I've come to know who they are.
Read MoreOne household. Three cats. And what happened when someone finally listened.
Cats have a reputation. Aloof. Unknowable. Not particularly interested in being understood. In my work as an animal communicator, I've never met one that matched that description.
Read MoreOn staying open and what your pet has been waiting to show you.
I'll admit something I haven't written about before. The real version of this work — not the tidy version, not the version that's easy to explain at a dinner party. Specific. Surprising. Arriving on its own terms, and asking something of you.
Read MoreOn Chicago, Stanley, and Becoming an Animal Communicator
Some places don't just hold your history. They shape what you become. Andersonville, a dog named Stanley, and a hidden prairie showed me what moves between living things.
Read MoreWhat the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
A painted dog named Pinto was going home the next day. He just needed someone to be here with him first.
Read MoreSome places ask you to receive differently. Seattle is one of them.
I grew up knowing this landscape. What the forests, a small lake, and the animals I've worked with in Seattle have taught me about presence — and what that has to do with animal communication.
Read MoreWhy remote sessions are often the most effective way to hear what your pet is trying to tell you.
Whether you're in a remote rural area or a bustling city across the ocean, animal communication isn't limited by geography. Learn why presence is about connection, not proximity, and how a remote session can provide the clarity you and your animal need—from anywhere in the world.
Read MoreThe question isn't whether animal communication is real. It's whether you're willing to be present to what's already there.
On skepticism, discernment, and what becomes possible when you stay curious.
Read MoreWhat I witness in pet loss sessions — and what becomes possible on the other side of grief
When I open a session with someone grieving a pet, the animal is usually already there. Not restless. Not demanding. Just — present. The question I'm asked most is simply: are they okay. And what I witness, over and over, is that the answer is yes.
Read MoreWhat the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator.
Every week when I walk into the room of kennels, I notice the names on each individual door. Does the name match the dog I see? Who decides, and I wondered if anyone asks them.
Read MoreOn Following a Feeling You Can't Explain
I had been walking for five days when it arrived. The path along the Alentejo coast, the Atlantic on one side, almost no one else out there — and on the last day, standing at the edge of a cliff in Portugal, something became clear. This is part of the answer to the question people ask me most.
Read MoreOn animal communication sessions, what comes through, and how to prepare
Some animals come into our lives not to be managed — but to teach us something. A client sensed this about her young Malinois mix. The resistance on walks, the push and pull between them — she already knew it was about more than training. What came through in our session confirmed it.
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