AN EARLY LOVE AFFAIR
I’ve loved animals and have felt close to them for as long as I can remember, admiring the intelligence and magnificence of these creatures so tuned in to the wisdom of the Universe.
My love affair includes all of Nature – the trees and 
grasses, clouds and rocks – and as a child I would spend hours communing with, even just watching, the birds, chipmunks, squirrels and butterflies that visited my yard (and I still do!)
On my way to school, I would make ‘heart’ and eye contact with all the cats in their front yards, on porches and in windows, sending them silent, loving greetings. And relaying quiet greetings to the birds in the trees.
MY FIRST MASTER TEACHER
NU NU I shared my childhood home with cats and a dog, canaries, budgies and other birds, fish and turtles. Later, along came more cats and another dog, newts, fiddler crabs, frogs, a toad 
and a horse. Always fascinated and always admiring, I could feel their feelings and just ‘knew’ what they were telling me.
My very best friend as a child was my grey tabby cat boy Nu Nu, an extraordinary ‘heart-cat’ master teacher who taught me just how incredibly wise and loving cats can be. Nu Nu was responsible for initiating my life-long love affair with fascinating felines.
Thankfully when I was 13 years old I was able to save Nu Nu’s life by understanding that he was in big trouble with a urinary blockage, and he was taken promptly to the vet. Examination showed that he was 100% plugged up, a condition that would have been fatal within about 24 hours.
ASHLEY Many years later another very special grey tabby came into my life. I brought Ashley home at a young age from my uncle’s farm where he had been a feral barn kitten. Ashley was another ‘heart-cat’, my best friend, comforter and confidante.
We were joyful friends and although I protected him fiercely as best I could, when Ashley
was 14 he was diagnosed with lympho-sarcoma, a deadly cancer. I had known for months that there was something seriously out of place with Ashley, but several trips to the vet turned up nothing.
Through his journey of illness, Ashley taught me so many things. Desperate to save him, I relentlessly researched natural and complementary healing methods and was able to switch him partially to a raw diet.
He rallied for a short time yet ultimately let go of life, always attentive and loving until the end. In his last days he whispered his love and other secrets to me and our relationship deepened.
It became apparent to me that illness stems from ongoing stressors in our lives, and I wanted to discover ways to help animals release tension, fear and stress. I wanted to find out how to care for all the animals who would enter my life so that this would never happen again. It became my business to learn what constitutes truly healthy food, healthy water and healthy environment.
And even more – I wanted to share what I had learned in order to help other animals be as healthy and happy as they could possibly be. My path widened.
FOLLOWING THE PATH
In Bach, I am certified and recognized by The Bach Centre in the U.K. for both humans and animals, in fact being the very first Bach certified animal practitioner in Canada.
My training also includes all levels of therapeutic touch, color and zone therapy, sound therapy, dowsing, astrology and mediumship.
A BROADER VIEW – HELPING OTHERS
TEACHING
Over the years I’ve taught many hundreds of students and some have gone on to become successful professional animal communicators. Some are also teaching now and so I’m very proud to be a Teacher of Teachers!
My Workshops and Audio products cover the full range of Animal Communication, from Preparation for Animal Communication, Levels 1, 2 and 3 and the Professional Communicator Course. Litter Box Solutions and All About Pet Foods are 1 to 1-1/2 hour audios that give you everything you need to know about these topics.
The home audio set Animals After Life – In Spirit will
answer your questions about the afterlife and delight and move you with fascinating information and many profound stories from, and of, the animals.I also teach in-person Tellington TTouch Workshops, and the Bach Flower Remedies for Pets and People Telecourse.
Intermittently offered are many teleclasses including Thunderstorms, Fireworks – Help Your Dog Now, Wisdom from the Wild and Aging, Illness and Beyond.
If you would like to try out your animal communication skills, or practice and fine-tune on an ongoing basis, read about The Amazing Animal Communication Practice Group*. This practice group is unsurpassed for the variety of species we work with, practice opportunities offered and group coaching and mentoring. [* This group is not currently active.]
Individual Mentoring is available for those wishing to overcome certain blocks and for those who are serious about their animal communication path. – read more here.
Every single day the animals demonstrate wisdom and compassion in their role as teachers and healers. And every single day they delight me and teach me and their humans something new about the possibility of all of us living a more loving, more present and more joyful existence on this planet together.
My current animal companions include feline teachers Figaro and Hoss (now in spirit), Aleysha and Flash, Royal and Sylvie, many fishes of the gold and tropical variety and a very friendly and enthusiastic frog out in the pond.