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11/13/2024

“The moment in front of you is not bothering you. You are bothering yourself about the moment that is in front of you.” Michael Singer

When something happens like your dog barking or pulling on the leash, you feel angry and frustrated.

Your perception about that moment of the barking or pulling is what colors the experience.

You are making yourself angry and frustrated. You are labeling the experience as bad or things aren’t perfect or you don’t have time for this.

Then you yell at your dog for vocalizing or you yank on the leash because you tell yourself you can’t handle what’s happening with your dog.

What is showing up in these situations is your own fear.

Fear of not being good enough about keeping your dog safe.

Fear of not being perfect in having a “bomb proof” dog.

Fear of what others are going to say about you and how others perceive you.

Your mind is very powerful, but your mind isn’t so powerful you lose your ability to choose.

You can choose to handle the situation and look at what’s happening inside of you when the world presents a moment you’re saying is bad or terrible or you want to run and hide.

Take the moment and take a conscious breath.

Breathe in and feel the breath travel through you.

Exhale and take a moment and feel the breath leave your body.

Repeat.

See if you can observe the thoughts that come up and learn to let them go.

The only way for your body to let go of past hurts or pain is to allow the sensations to pass through you.

Allow yourself to feel.

Observe the sensations.

Remain present.

This moment is the only moment that matters and it will go by in an instant.

Choose wisely.

10/31/2024

Normalize failing or making mistakes as part of your journey rather than labeling yourself or someone else (dog included) as being bad.

Our culture is fixated on success and achievement and moving on to the next that we make every effort to avoid the opportunity of learning within lesson of not getting the thing right.

Whatever “the thing” you deemed as the goal or outcome is not the source of your happiness.

Discovering the peace that’s already inside of you when you live fully present in each moment is available to you.

It’s up to you to be brave and be curious to what each day’s lessons are trying to show you.

You can start by not shaming yourself or others (dog included) when something doesn’t go as planned or mistakes happen.

Learn to flow with what is!

10/30/2024

You’ve come to realize what you’re currently doing is no longer working.

You’re tired.

You don’t see any changes happening with your dog and you continue feeling frustrated.

Simultaneously, you know things can be different.

You are feeling the push to make some changes and also feeling the pull to go back to where you were even though it was no longer working.

The liminal space you’re in is uncomfortable and it leaves you feeling uneasy.

You want something different, but crave familiarity.

You want your dog to change, so you can feel more at peace.

You also realize that if you want your dog to do something different, you too have to show up and do different too.

You resist.

You deny that anything you do needs to be different.

You retreat to what you know.

When you do, you also feel uncomfortable there too.

This limbo is part of your growth and it is a marker for change.

It’s ok to feel overwhelmed and uncertain. Growing and learning something new is unpredictable.

It has to be. To do something new and looking to make a change means you will becoming an explorer in your life.

You are charting your next steps in a direction that is more aligned for you.

Be kind to yourself. Be easy on yourself as you move and show up differently.

At the very least, have a good sense of humor and don’t take yourself or your dog so seriously.

You can choose how you experience learning something new and when you can see the joy emanating from your dog in learning together, feel your heart burst open allow the light to shine in.

You deserve it!

10/11/2024

Learning anything new requires you to change.

You evolve into a new way of being.

Learning isn’t always about acquiring knowledge from books, but learning about yourself and seeing what changes you need inside of yourself to align to the real you.

When you’re willing to let go of living a life based on how others see you or how you “think” you should be, you will feel fear and uncertainty, but this is the doorway to your own growth.

You can make a choice of continuing to play small or you can be brave and take the next tiniest step to the person you know who are, but have been too afraid to embody.

When those moments or hours or days show up that suck the wind out of you, be with your dog.

Allow yourself to feel the love your companion has for you and allow yourself to surrender into that moment that you are ok.

You will learn you can learn to love yourself as much as you companion animal loves you.

Don’t let fear stop you. Let it be your guide to open your heart.

10/07/2024

As I mentioned last week, life is already hard enough.

Why make it harder than it needs to be for yourself, others and even your companion animals.

While our own suffering in the wake of becoming more aware of what is important to us doesn’t need to be compounded any additional pain.

Other’s pain doesn’t need to become our pain and this is also the same for our dogs.

When you are ravaged by your thoughts and feeling pangs of resentments and in the midst of judging others and even yourself, please know these thoughts and beliefs are not you.

They are the conditioning that created how you perceive yourself, but they aren’t you.

When you lift this veil of how you perceive yourself and yourself in the world, you can end your suffering.

The veil is only perceived and created in your mind.

This keeps you from living with kindness and love.

Making the choice to live from your heart is totally within your control.

Find it in your heart to be compassionate to yourself, others and your companion animals.

10/04/2024

Life meets us with challenges everyday.

Ever since we entered this world.

Challenges are presented for our dogs.

One of the biggest challenge is living in a human centered world.

Us humans aren’t the easiest species to live amongst lol.

For most of us, we live in our heads and unaware of ourselves at the deepest level.

When the mind controls how we live we get wrapped up in the judgements of our own beliefs or even the judgements by others who are also living in their minds.

Then we suffer.

Suffering becomes unbearable and now when you dog barks, your dog becomes the object of your suffering.

Blaming your dog for how you feel or what you think causes a disturbance in your relationship with your dog.

Because you’re living unaware that things outside of yourself isn’t what is the cause of your suffering.

You are see your dog as your antagonist and your enemy.

The cycle of looking outside of yourself to feel better or blaming when that reality doesn’t match our desired reality, continues.

You continue to suffer.

Instead of looking to control each moment of your life, let go and live with what is.

When you live presently, you respond to life.

Your connection with yourself deepens and your relationship with your loved ones transform.

Tap into your own inherent ability to access the present moment and invite in how your dog already sees the essence of who you are.

10/02/2024

Do you want your dog to make you happy?

Are you so focused on what your dog is doing or not doing and when your dog does the opposite of what you want, do you feel annoyed, irritated and overwhelmed?

If so, you are putting a lot of expectation on your dog to make you feel a certain way or to relieve the stress of your life.

At the same time, you set yourself and your dog up not to be successful and you both continue to suffer.

Dogs are without self concept. They are pure being-ness.

They are without judgment of themselves or others.

They live their life with an aliveness that sometimes as humans we lose our connected to presence we don’t see experience what is happening in the heart and now.

I invite you to sit with your dog and be still.

You nor your dog have to do anything for a few moments, just be present and allow thoughts to bubble up.

When thoughts show up, look at your dog and know your dog is free of thoughts and just is and you can be that way too.

The thoughts running through your mind are not you, it’s just chatter that takes up the space and keeps you from experience what is now.

Your dog’s presence in your life is much more than the doing. They teach you how to live.

07/30/2024

When you are kindness, you are showing love.

Through love you are connected to those around you.

Connection is a state of being and our dogs are an embodiment of that expression.

They are never judging us or thinking ill of us or of themselves.

They are the purest expression of love.

When we begin to turn into ourselves, we begin experiencing our senses much like our companion animals.

We see, feel, hear and even taste what is in front of us in the present moment.

As we pass through that doorway of sensory perception, we start to become one with our dogs.

We experience life as they do.

Freedom from our thoughts and just being in the present moment.

As we go deeper into ourselves and connect with our inner knowing, we merge with the oneness of animals.

We are the kindness and love that our dogs already know exist within us.

Take a breath, experience your senses and feel the deep knowing that you are love and are loved and your dogs presence is an embodiment of that oneness in the world.

07/19/2024

What if you let go of labeling an experience as good or bad and instead just saw it as is?

Take for instance, your dog barking. If you let go of taking the barking personally, then labeling the behavior as being bad because your preference of no barking goes away.

How would that change how you feel about the experience?

When the experience doesn’t match what you desire to actually be happening, your expectation overrides what is actually occuring right in front of you.

When you slip out of the present moment, your thoughts take over and your inner critic emerges and gets louder and louder.

You may also may become worried and anxious about the future.

In the instance of your dog barking, when you slip out of the present moment, you may judge yourself for being bad for not being able to stop your dog from barking, or even label your dog as bad and blame him for doing what is natural to him.

Or, you may be worried about the what ifs of your dog barking when guests are planned to come over for a party at your house over the weekend. The anxious mind spins wildly out of control which then makes you feel like you have no control.

When you get back to your grounded being, you begin to access your creative mind and you begin seeing you have choices of what you can do.

Take a breath.

Be still.

Be open to what creative options show up and feel free to share below :)

07/11/2024

The lesson we learn from our dogs is how the are free from their minds.

Freedom from self judgment or oppression.

They live in the present and are their purest selves.

When we live in harmony with our beloved furry companions, we heal ourselves not from the companionship alone, but how we can also access our own pure self.

We learn how to connect with our infinite wisdom and find the peace within.

The joy of being is already within you.

07/05/2024

When you are experience turbulence in your life, do you begin seeking advice, answers and guidance outside of yourself?

When the answers you receive from others don’t “fix” the issue you’re experiencing, do you go on to the next?

Then when you do find someone who can help you, but you find out it doesn’t remedy issue all together, do you the judge and blame the other person for not relieving your pain?

When you get quiet and hear the words you’re whispering to yourself, you can become clear on the direction you want to go.

Often, the direction is not an absolute answer, it’s only part of your journey.

The invitation to take the next step.

The willingness to take action one way or another is within your full control.

Being aware of how you feel when you take action is what will give you what you’re desiring.

Peace. Freedom. Relief.

Listen to what your heart is telling you.

07/03/2024

What if instead of seeing your companion as the source of your happiness and discovered that they are just showing you how you can find the happiness within yourself?

They just like any relationship just shows us the way back to ourself.

06/13/2024

Do you find yourself pinning all of energy into an outcome?

Focusing all your attention on the idea that if you accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself, your friends will get off your back about your dog barking.

Your family members will stop blaming you for your dog not being perfect.

You feel you’ll reach perfection and everything will be ok and everyone will be happy.

Ugh, I feel this. I felt that way before and time and time again.

I felt the need to try attain perfection in order to control how others perceived me, or how others perceived me indirectly through Jack and Bernie’s behavior.

“Always” trying to prove I’m responsible.

^^^^^^ That right there is a limiting belief that others put on me and I adopted as my own.

Recognizing that idea of myself isn’t what I wanted nor do I believe is fair or even attainable made me pause.

Then I asked myself, if I’m not trying to achieve perfection in order to control how others see me, then what do I want instead?

Presence. That’s what I want.

Presence gives me the freedom from my intrusive thoughts.

Presence is the stillness in responding to others in an authentic way.

If you were to examine thoughts and old beliefs about yourself that are not wanted, what would you take a look at?

06/13/2024

When you have a goal, whether it’s learning a new skill for yourself or improving a dynamic with your loved ones like your dog, how much focus do you put on achieving the goal?

If you let go of attachment to the end result and focus on the building the skill or finding the joy in the journey, how does that shift how you feel?

How would letting go of results improve your relationships?

05/15/2024

I had this experience yesterday that centered around communication.

Communicating about insight, sharing of ideas, strategizing about how to handle a problem and everything that goes into formulating a plan with a team.

What I experienced was how so many of us just communicate to respond to situations rather than take time to understand.

Working in crisis work, many of us are reactive in spitting out answers while expecting the other person to know what to do when instructions are given out.

While I feel pretty adept in thinking on my feet and being able to formulate a plan quickly (thanks to my quick start abilities), I did find myself slowing down and taking the time to understand the bigger picture, but also check in with myself about whether the information made sense, if the information was accurate and to also ask for clarification when I needed it.

I wanted to be thoughtful in how I carried out the plan moving forward.

I was struck by the idea of what if the suggestions and information and direction that was being put out wasn’t towards person who had any sense of the scope of the work, but instead towards someone who didn’t understand this line of work.

How well would the person do in carrying out a plan?

Doing so definitely wouldn’t set the person up for success even though the burden of responsibility would lay squarely on their shoulders.

I know, you could say, the hiring team didn’t find the right person for the role.

Of course!

Now, what if you take the same manner of communicating of putting out directions, giving orders plus having an expectation of the “other” in following through with your specific guidance without room for clarification AND the “other” was a child or even a dog.

You mostly likely will become frustrated because they didn’t meet your expectations of what you told them to do.

They failed to follow directions.

What about your failure to understand their confusion about what you’re trying to communicate to them?

Instead of seeing this as a failure, reframe it into a learning experience of what you can do differently to help the learner understand and be successful.

How can you bridge that gap?

For one, seek to understand what contributes to the confusion and help to eliminate the barriers so the recipient can understand in a clearer way.

Be open to pivoting how you’re transmitting information. If one way doesn’t work, have a flexible mindset and shift in a different way that it makes it easier to understand.

You may need to break down the steps or slow down the rate of information being shared. If you’re flying through 8 steps of a 10 step process without space for the information to be absorbed and even practiced at times and then by step 10 when the other person or even your dog doesn’t get it right, you become irritated they got it wrong.

Take your time and stay open to curiosity from those around you.

05/13/2024

Getting comfortable with discomfort takes bravery and willingness.

Bravery to embark on doing something new.

Stepping into uncharted waters and being a beginner again and again.

The willingness to grow and change.

What you learn about yourself and what you’re capable for is found in the doing of the unknown.

While you may have a goal in mind to achieve like leash walking your dog or teaching your dog a new trick or you, or learning a new skill, what you take away from the experience may have much more to do with you uncovering parts of yourself that were hidden.

Stretching yourself in doing something new, exposes those parts of yourself where you can become more curious and exploratory about what’s showing up without giving up.

When those moments of stretching become too much, take a break and allow the lessons to wash over you while you begin to make sense of their meaning.

Achieving a goal like leash walking isn’t just about your dog walking with you on a leash, but rather your desire to feel more confident and connected with your companion animal and about becoming the person you want to be in that relationship.

Be the person your dog already knows is inside of you even if you haven’t met her yet.

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05/09/2024

Sometimes we can wrapped up in constantly on the search for achieving the next thing.

After you hit one milestone, you may think you have to keep going after the next.

And the cycle continues until you burn out.

Today, instead of seeking the next goal, pause and savor the moments of what you already achieved.

Give yourself permission to celebrate the wins you already made and revel in what you’ve already accomplished.

Take this as a reminder, there’s only one of you, so make sure to show compassion for all you’re doing for yourself and those around you including your companion animals.

04/29/2024

Breakthroughs in understanding oneself happen in the midst of being pushed to our limit.

During more turbulent times, opportunity exists to tap into the energy of the chaos and find out the messages the messiness is trying to tell us when we are poised to listen.

Last week, I spoke with my colleague that “I’m at my limit”, “My bandwidth is low” and “I’m running out of steam”.

My colleague turned to me and asked me if I could do “more”.

My body crumbled and I replied, “no, I can’t do those things she was asking”.

My colleague pushed and asked me if I could do other things.

In this moment, I gave up my agency, my control of standing firm in what I could handle and I told my colleague, “yes, I can do those other things”.

What transpired was that there was more tasks apart of what I “agreed” too which mirrored similarly to what I originally said no to and I became angry.

I sat with the anger and I was reminded of this quote, “anger is sadness’s body guard”.

I realized I was sad that I gave up my personal control and allowed someone else to influence my decision making.

What I did with this energy, renewed understanding and empowerment was to have a conversation with my colleague.

We spoke candidly and transparently about the situation.

I came to understand that she saw how impacted I was and how burned out I was and she recognized that she could have paused and reflected back to me what she saw.

I said, “yes” that would have opened the door even if I wasn’t clear on what I was experiencing in that moment.

I know I would have been relieved she saw my humanness.

Strengthening your inner trust, understanding your inner critic and healing parts of yourself that you didn’t realize created ingrained beliefs can lead to freedom.

If you’re struggling with getting to the other side of troubled waters, reach out for support and you can see how you can build your bridges with loving support.

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