G-8GW6WNVDCH 2301875706914928 An Intuitive Look Inside a Cat’s Hidden World - Animal Posse

Episode 84

An Intuitive Look Inside a Cat’s Hidden World

Published on: 4th September, 2026

This episode opens a rare window into what trauma feels like from the animal’s side. Dixie sits down with interspecies communicator Leiah Bowden, whose work blends intuitive perception, core shamanism, energy healing, and her signature soul‑journey portraits to reveal what animals carry beneath their behavior.

Together, they explore how rescue cats experience fear, abandonment, multidimensional refuge, and healing; how intuitive communication actually works; and what humans often misunderstand about the emotional lives of traumatized animals. Leiah shares vivid stories of her earliest communications, the role of “helper beings,” and how listening differently can transform the lives of cats who’ve survived hardship.

A deeply compassionate, eye‑opening conversation for rescuers, adopters, and anyone who’s ever wondered what their animals feel beyond what they show.

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Transcript
Dixie:

today we're talking about something most people never get to witness, what

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trauma feels like from the animal's side.

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As a cat rescue, we work with feral and

previously unwanted cats who carry real

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livid trauma from life before rescue.

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We see the behavior, we treat the

wounds, but we often don't get to

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understand the inner landscape of

what those experiences leave behind.

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Our guest today, Leiah Bowden, is an

animal and interspecies communicator

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whose work blends core shamanism,

hands-on energy healing, and her signature

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soul journey energy portraits, spoken

impressions, renderings, and sun light

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language that reveal what an animal is

carrying, not just what they're showing.

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She's read for rescue animals before,

and her work gives us a rare window

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into the emotional and energetic

truth of cats who've survived

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abandonment, injury, and fear.

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Leia: Hello.

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Dixie: Hello.

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How are you, Leiah?

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Leia: I'm very well.

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And thank you so much for including

me in your wonderful work.

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Dixie: Thank you.

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I'm so very excited to hear about this

because as somebody who does energy

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work herself, i'm familiar with the

animal communication 'cause I have

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also dabbled in animal communication.

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But- … the approach that

you take is so much different.

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I'm very excited to learn

how- … this all works.

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Leia: Wonderful.

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Dixie: Before you started doing this

and before you became an interspecies

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communicator, what did you do

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Leia: I have to confess, I always

admired people who did what their heart

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prompted th- them to do full time.

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But I always had a job, a day

job, and my day job was as a

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communications director for elder--

for organizations helping the elderly.

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I was a director of communications for a

very good multi-level elderly facility.

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And and in the meantime, I did my energy

paintings and my work on the side and

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my animal communication on the side.

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But I had begun delving into

intuitive work, oh, in:

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came upon me, and then gradually

I just opened to it more and more.

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And when I retired in…

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when did I retire?

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2012 or something like that.

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I then just jumped in full time.

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But I had been sensitive

to multidimensionality and

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energies m- mostly all my life.

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And how involved were you

with animals prior to this?

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I had animals.

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I always had a dog and a cat,

and I loved horses occasionally.

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When I had a chance, I rode.

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But I didn't engage with them in ways

that in, in ways that included speech.

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That is the perception of their thoughts

and their feelings as I began when I

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started doing animal communication.

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I would love to tell you how I started

that because I think it is, it's

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full of heart and it really speaks to

how when we open up to our intuition

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our real life blossoms as well.

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Okay?

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Yes.

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So- I would absolutely love to hear that.

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So what happened was my only child,

my son, went to college, and he

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was only an hour and a half away.

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But I found myself doing what

I had heard about other mothers

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doing when their little birds flew.

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I went into his bedroom and

I sat on his bed and I cried.

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And all of a sudden, I knew

that what I needed was horses.

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And so I called a friend of mine

who I knew owned some horses, and I

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called him up and I told him, and he

said, "Okay, you can come feed at 7:30

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in the morning and 7:30 at night."

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And so I started doing that, and that

led to working at some other barns.

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And in one of them, I

found a book on tape.

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This was, gosh, in 1993.

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So we didn't have Audible

or anything like that.

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We had books on tape.

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And I took the book on tape home.

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It was called How to

Communicate with Animals.

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Unfortunately, I don't

remember the author.

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I wish I could 'cause I'd love to give

her, I know it was a woman, credit.

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So I took it h- I listened to it, and

when I went back to the stable the

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next day I, as usual, I pulled out

the two horses that I loved working

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with most were Allie and Springer.

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They were both pregnant.

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Allie had eight foals.

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Springer's pregnancy was her first.

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And I started with Springer,

and I put her in the cross ties.

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And as usual, as I was currying

her, I said, "Oh, Springer, your

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baby is growing so beautifully.

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This is wonderful."

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And I heard a voice in my head

as real as if another human being

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were in my head talking to me.

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And the voice said, just like

this, "I don't want this baby."

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And it was shocking because it

wasn't something that felt other.

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It wasn't something that felt

distant or unrelated to me.

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Imagine sitting with a friend who

says that to you, who's pregnant.

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Y- you don't just say, "Oh, really?

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Okay, please turn your head."

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So I said, "Oh my God, w- why?"

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She said Allie told me it's not good."

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Okay.

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So I finished brushing her, led her back,

brought Allie into the cross ties, and

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I said, "Allie, I hear that you told

Springer that having babies isn't good.

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Why is that?"

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And she said, again, clear as day,

I heard it, a voice in my head.

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She said, "Because they leave you."

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These were broodmares.

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Their job was to give birth,

and then the foals were sold.

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It was heartbreaking.

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And I told the owner of the stable

this, and she was mortified.

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I don't know what she did.

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M- my association with her was very

short-lived, and not at all because of

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any disapproval on my part, or anything.

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It's just that I then moved on to

another stable But it was shocking to

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hear this tragedy unfolding in my head.

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And interesting because several years

later, as I began writing about this,

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I realized I went to these horses

because my little boy had left me, only

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for college an hour and a half away.

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But my grief was what drew me to them

in the first place, and there they were,

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reflecting exactly what I was feeling.

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So that was my first foray into

opening consciously into the hearts

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and minds of non-human animals.

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And because it was so stunning and

heartrending, th- it informed me

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that this was not fooling around.

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This was not dealing with a

species that was any less worth

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full consideration and dignity and

respect than another human being.

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And that was my beginning

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Dixie: Wow, that's beautiful.

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It's amazing how it happens like

that too because- I had a similar

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experience with that after I took an

animal communication class, and so I

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definitely understand what you mean

about that clear voice that you hear.

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Leia: Oh yes.

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Dixie: That's right … I know a lot

of people are not open to that at all.

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But, I definitely am a believer.

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I have experienced it myself, and it's

just- Yeah … when you allow yourself

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to be open like that, and I think

unconsciously a lot of people talk to

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animals and get messages back from them

without realizing it, because- Yes … all

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animal lovers talk to your animal.

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You have a- Of course … full-fledged

conversation with your animal, and

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you, like- … will reply back to them

like you're having a conversation.

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And- … you might not hear anything,

but it's like subconsciously you

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know what they're communicating.

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You know what they want.

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Leia: That's right.

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That's right, you do.

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And I know that I've read that some

animal communicators receive images

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and feelings, and I know too as an

intuitive practitioner that sometimes…

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I know when I lead guided

visualizations, I've learned that

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some people are not visually oriented.

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And so when I say, "Imagine

a beautiful forest," it…

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sometimes it doesn't mean a thing.

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However, if I say, "Allow yourself

to feel comfortable completely

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and just feel it in your body.

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Imagine it might come through a

sound, or it might come through a

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memory, or the feeling of complete

relaxation might all of a sudden

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bring to mind a song that you love."

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Because people all perceive differently,

just as people learn differently.

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And so in order to encourage other people

to open themselves completely to the

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world, to engage in this magnificence of

creation, it's very helpful to help people

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accept that however they perceive is it.

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You don't have to see or hear

voices in your head, although the

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voices in my head are my most direct

way of learning and perceiving.

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Yeah, I get a lot of downloads.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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I know for me personally . like I

said I've heard the voices clearly.

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I also will occasionally get a

picture that pops up in my head.

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Particularly If I'm doing a

Reiki session, I will get the

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images popping up in my head.

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Leia: Yes, that's right.

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And sometimes when I'm working on an

animal, it has happened several times,

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that there's something going on with

the animal physically, and I look, I

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call it scanning the animal's body.

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I look, I scan, and sometimes I'll

see a grid over the animal, and I know

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that this is a multidimensional grid.

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It's a display of energy that

sometimes looks like a basket,

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a, a loosely woven basket.

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Sometimes it just looks like several

brightly colored beams extending up

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from the animal or down to the animal.

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Sometimes I'm not sure.

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Is it going up or is

it coming down and in?

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And that's an interesting thing too.

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And then when that happens It-- because

I do this at my computer, which is a

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whole other interesting way of working.

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As I'm sitting at my computer with

my document open and into which I'm

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typing the the information from the

animal I'm typing the discussion

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the story as it's unfolding.

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I open up a graphic program, and

I draw the image that I'm seeing.

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Sometimes I'll download an

image from the web of an animal.

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If the animal-- if the photo of

the album-- of the animal that I've

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been given isn't clear enough, and I

really wanna show where this distress

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is happening in the animal, I'll

download just a graphic of an animal.

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And then using the graphic program

on my computer, I'll draw this

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is the way the energy looked.

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This was the color, and it traveled

from the tail over the spine and then

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up through the ears and then a spiral

up from the ears," however it looked.

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And then I send that along with

the report to the animal's person,

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and I do the same thing for songs.

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Sometimes when I'm working on an

animal, there will be a melody that

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I hear, and sometimes it's not just

that I hear it, but I feel it in my

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throat like it, it's saying, sing me."

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It needs to be expressed.

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And so I turn on my recording app on my

phone, and I sing the song that I hear.

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And in fact, once I sent a song to a

person whose dog was so upset i-in the

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car that not even Trazodone helped.

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The dog would just scream for all

the time that it was in the car.

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And they told me after they received

the song that they played the song

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for the dog as she got into the car,

and she was quiet for the whole trip.

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Which was amazing to me.

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Isn't it wonderful when we learn that

the work that we do is effective?

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Wow.

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That's really great.

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So yeah, because I work alone at

my computer looking at a photograph

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of the animal, I have access to the

technology that allows me to show

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people exactly what I'm seeing.

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I do sometimes do sessions in person

because there are some times when

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people really want that immediacy.

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And so I do that, but I find that

when I do the sessions alone at

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my computer typing, and I type

very fast, and I include the tone

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of voice and what I'm seeing.

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Does the animal stop and look

down and look at me quizzically?

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I write all of that in.

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So that n- normally what my

clients get is basically a story.

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Looks like a conversation with

whatever additional images

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and/or songs have come through.

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So that was a long answer

to a simple question.

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Dixie: I know that I'm gonna have

a lot of listeners out there who

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have never heard about this before.

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… I understand what you're talking about

that the looking at the photo and

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everything, but can you explain how

you're doing this without actually

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having the animal physically in

front of you and just using a photo?

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Leia: Su- sure.

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The basis of this work is intuitive, and

this is why, for instance, energy work

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such as Reiki can be done long distance.

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Because, in fact, there is

nothing separating us from

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any other creation, period.

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Except what does separate us is our

mind that tells us I'm here, and

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that's there, and we are separate."

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And of course, that is true physically.

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I cannot touch something that's farther

away than what my arm can reach.

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But intuitive work, and

animal communication is

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intuitive, telepathic work.

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It can also, of course, be hands-on.

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Some people who, especially people who

are kinetic, who learn and perceive most

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directly and most vividly by a hands-on

technique need that animal right there.

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But I work intuitively.

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My strongest perception is what I feel

and see and hear in my, and I'll use this

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word, which is a loaded word, imagination.

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We tell children after they've

had a bad dream, "Oh, honey,

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it's just your imagination."

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And that's our way of

saying, "It's not real.

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It can't follow you.

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It's not here with you.

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You put it away."

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And thank God for that because we need

to be assured that we're not at the

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risk of anything that might pop into

our head, that physical reality is more

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important than non-physical reality,

and that's kind of the rule of this

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planet, and maybe other planets too.

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Anyway I, I have learned that what's in

my imagination, that field of perception

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in which I can go anywhere and admit

anything that I want- is a treasure trove.

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And so although the animal may be

in Indonesia and I'm sitting here in

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Northern California, or the animal

is in Ohio or Juneau, Alaska, or

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wherever, when I look at the photograph

of the animal, and by the way, some

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people don't even need a photograph.

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Sometimes it's possible to do it just

knowing that the animal is in trouble,

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and you know the animal's name.

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When I look at a photograph, I look into

the eyes and I say hello to the animal.

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I'll just pause there.

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When you go to someone's

house, you don't just barge in.

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You knock on the door.

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And so I sit there with my mental

presence in the field of perception

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so the animal can s- can feel it.

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And when the animal notices

me, the animal says, "Oh, hi.

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Why are you here?"

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Or the animal may say, "Oh,

I've been waiting for you."

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Or sometimes the animal

doesn't say anything.

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I just perceive that, let's say, the dog

is pacing back and forth worried, or the

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dog is sitting down and feeling depleted.

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I just begin perceiving.

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It-- because intuition works completely

separate from physical reality.

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Think of how you feel when you think

of someone you love, and a feeling

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of if it's a really wonderful love,

it, it-- you feel exalted, you

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feel expansive, you feel wonderful.

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And the person isn't sitting

there in the chair next to you.

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You're not holding that person's hand.

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You're just thinking of them.

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The response that we have when

we think of something is an

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example of how intuition works.

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We don't call it intuition.

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We call it, "Oh, when I think

of someone because I love them."

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It's the same thing, and it is a hard

sell to somebody for whom physical

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reality is really the only thing

that matters, and I respect that.

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I have th- people who I love

for whom physical reality is

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the only sphere of reality.

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But, and here's how I learned

that for me, physical reality is

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not the only important sphere.

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I was driving down the road many

years ago, and I was feeling very

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depressed, and I couldn't imagine

a way out of my depression.

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I couldn't imagine it.

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Now, nothing in my life was terrible,

but it was all my own feeling, and I…

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at that moment, I realized if a feeling

is so strong that you can't think of a way

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to feel differently, that feeling is real.

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You're not making it up.

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And you have to go with that, and

you have to find a way to deal with

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that feeling because it's real.

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That's reality.

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When you have a dream just as you're

waking up and in the dream you're crying,

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and you find that you're waking up

sobbing there was nothing physical going

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on while you were dreaming, but it was

real because it made a difference to you.

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You noticed it.

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There was an emotional connection.

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And so that's how I talk to people

about how intuition or our feelings

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or our thoughts are a form of reality

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Dixie: Yeah I totally can understand

everything that you're saying, and I

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think that was a very good explanation

for people who might not understand it.

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I would like to focus a little bit,

too, on the work that you have done with

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rescue cats that have experienced trauma.

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Leia: Yes.

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Cats are cats are a very

interesting species because

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they are so multidimensional.

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I find that cats who have experienced

trauma have found refuge in…

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And this is a logical, this is

a logical thread now because

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of what I just talked about.

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They find refuge in the, what I call

their home dimension, in the place

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where their bodies just are not.

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They find companionship and a sense of

peace and escape in the dimension of,

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we might call it their dreams or the

other dimension in which they hang out.

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There was a cat once who couldn't

make her way in the room she lived in

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because although there were pathways

that she could walk around, th- the,

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the multidimensionality in her mind,

the home dimension was present as well,

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and there were furniture in the room.

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There was furniture like big desks

that she couldn't get through

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or around that blocked her from

getting into that other dimension.

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So the trauma that I've experienced

from cats, from, rescued cats, has

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been that they they f- maybe will spend

a lot of time not being responsive

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or not being available to their

person because they're spending this

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other time in their home dimension.

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Dixie: When you're dealing with

a cat that has experienced this

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trauma, I guess how is it different

for them compared to a human?

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'Cause that's gonna be the easiest

way for people to understand

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Leia: The cats have this escape route, and

it's real for them, and they go into it

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But they also respond to

repeated expressions of love

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that respect their boundaries.

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And they they need their distance.

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They need to be able to not be

touched if their prior association

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with touch was traumatic.

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And finding out what they need.

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F- for instance, some cats will want a

soft object, or some cats will-- Some

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cats will want their human to relax.

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It is sometimes traumatic for a cat when

the human is always busy, always, for

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instance, on the computer or on the phone.

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So a cat with special needs really

needs to be asked, what do you need?"

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Or and for humans, that can be very

frustrating because we wanna pick

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up our kittens and cuddle with them.

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That's why we-- You know, for some,

a lot of people, in fact, pr- dare

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I say most people, they want a cat

because they want that cuddliness.

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They want the cat on their lap.

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We want the comfort for ourselves.

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But if we are taking in a rescue cat,

one who has been traumatized, we need

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to realize that we are the safe haven,

and our own desire for connection with

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that cat needs to take second place

to simply allowing the cat to be in

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a place where it is physically safe.

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I don't know if I've answered your

question completely because, of

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course, when humans are in distress,

w- we reach out to other humans.

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But we know h- we know people who just

would prefer to sit and not talk, and we

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think that's strange behavior, most of us.

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We think that something's wrong.

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And yeah, maybe something is wrong, but

we need to allow that person their space

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as well rather than saying, "Cheer up.

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You've got nothing to be depressed about.

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You're fine now."

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Just as you can't say that to a person,

you also can't say that to a cat.

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And also as an animal communicator, one

thing that I've learned is that there

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are helper beings available to that cat.

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And when in an animal communication

session, I connect with that helper being.

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If the cat can't express what she

needs to me, the helper being can.

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The helper being will explain to me what's

going on with the cat energetically and

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will say this cat needs such and such."

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And then the helper being, in fact,

can flow its own energy into the

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cat and help in that way as well

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Dixie: Yeah.

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Yeah, that definitely

answers the question.

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And I did like what you said too about the

whole thing with people wanting a snuggly

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cat, but a cat isn't always snuggly.

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I understand that.

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I've had cats my whole life.

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That is totally how cats are.

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The cat is gonna come to you when

the cat is ready to come to you.

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But being , a cat rescuer and adopting

out cats, that is one of the hardest

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things to get an adopter to understand.

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Dixie: And, specifically with a kitten,

because it's like I always tell people, a

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kitten might be super sweet and cuddly and

snuggly when they're a baby, but when they

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grow up- they're still finding their way.

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They might not be like that anymore,

and that's a hard thing to get people to

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understand who have never had cats before.

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Leia: That's right.

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And so the answer that some people

come to is, "Oh, I'll get another cat."

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You know what happens when you bring

another cat into the household.

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It might work, but I would al- always

recommend to people, if you're considering

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getting another animal, either if

you're not intuitive yourself, you don't

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have a strong feeling of what your cat

wants and doesn't want, find an animal

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communicator who can tune in to your

cat and say, "We're considering getting

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another con- another cat in the house.

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How do you feel about that,

and what will be the rules?"

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Because that first cat

will make the rules.

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And and that, that always is helpful.

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And if you know which other cat you're

considering, then it's good to introduce

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the two cats multi-dimensionally first

and find out, like maybe the new cat

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that you're getting thinks that he

or she is going to rule the roost.

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So I think a lot can be done

proactively before the new cat comes in.

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And I know I've taken this, this in

another direction, but because so

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many people do want that cuddliness,

you'll keep on getting more cats until

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you get the one that will cuddle.

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Dixie: I do wanna ask

you another question.

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You mentioned-

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Leia: Sure

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… Dixie: a helper being.

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And- … so is that would that be

equivalent to like, a spirit guide

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? Leia: In my experience of animal

communication, the helper beings

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are in fact, there are two

kinds that I've experienced.

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With a cat- I don't experience

a cat that I've known coming

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into the scene and helping.

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But what I do experience is

what I call an oversoul cat.

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And I find that what I am m-motivated

to refer to this, this other cat

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as simply Cat with a capital C.

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If I'm dealing with a cat whose needs are

not physical, they are emotional, and I'm

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having trouble figuring out or hearing

from the cat exactly what she needs,

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all of a sudden I can either call on

Cat or I see, aha, Cat enters the scene.

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Now, this cat usually appears

to me as an Abyssinian cat.

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I have no idea why.

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I met an Abyssinian once, and I

was just struck by how gorgeous

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he was and how dignified.

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And so maybe that is because, everything

that's happening in my head is a function

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of my own associations, and that's true

of everyone who does intuitive work.

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So I perceive this very dignified,

beautiful cat coming into the scene.

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And when Cat is in the scene

with me, Cat takes over.

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Cat looks at me and speaks to me

much as a teacher would speak to

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me, and I respect that interaction.

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I respect that cat.

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And I know that Cat is the authority

figure, and so I obey what Cat says.

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Cat may say, "This session needs

to end for right now because

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Little One," or whatever the

cat's name is, "needs to rest."

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And I say, "Thank you very much,"

and then I come back later.

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Or Cat will say "Allow, allow a moment of

light to appear," and the light appears.

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Whatever Cat says, I pay attention.

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And so it is like a guardian

angel, but it's not an angel.

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It is an oversoul.

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It is a being whose presence

includes and protects the lives

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of many other of its species.

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It is a protector being, and it is

completely trustworthy and beautiful.

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And when I'm working with dogs,

the protector being who comes in

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is actually the spirit of one of

my last dog who passed, my Rosie.

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And she comes in, and she's

actually a shamanic healing partner.

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She comes in, and she does the healing.

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Cat sometimes actually also does the

healing that's needed by moving energy

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from its own field, its own consciousness

into the body, the etheric, the energy

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body of the cat that I'm working with

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Dixie: How can you take this information

that you're getting to help the cat?

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Leia: The cat is helped

by that energy exchange.

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It happens right then and there.

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And then, of course, as I'm writing about

this, if I'm doing it in my normal way,

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which is to be sitting at my desk alone

typing all of this out, if I'm writing

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about it I type out the entire thing.

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I tell the cat's person, "This is

what's happening, and I'm seeing

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now that the cat's esophagus is now

clear," or, "I'm seeing now that

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the heart rate has lowered," or,

"I'm seeing that the-- I'm feeling

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the feeling of itchiness is going."

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And then I might get information

that says, "The cat might need

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some sort of salve," or, "Have

you taken the cat to the vet?"

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Or I give the person instructions,

either instructions from cat or from

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the, their own little cat about what

is needed to continue this improvement.

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So do you have any specific

examples that you can share with us?

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The examples are just what I've

given, that there is, for instance

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a feeling of itching in one of

the cats that I was helping.

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And I felt-- The cat said,

"There is a hot itching.

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There is a hot feeling of

little critters moving in me."

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And so I-- my sense was that

it was not an, an infestation.

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It wasn't fleas.

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It wasn't a tick or anything.

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My sense was that it was bacteria.

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And so I wrote this to the person,

and they took the, the animal

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to the vet and had blood tests.

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And there was, in fact, there was

some bacterial infection that was

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going on that hadn't been obvious

in any way, and they hadn't taken

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the cat to the vet in a while.

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So sometimes that's exactly what happens.

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Or there's a feeling that the

cat wants blue food or cool food.

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And so I'll suggest, blueberries

or cool water or something

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that doesn't excite the body.

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And sometimes the, the cat will

tell me, I want live food."

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The cats that-- This is very frequent,

that a cat will say because it wants to

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hunt, "I want a recently dead being."

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And sometimes then you can get,

food that's expensive that's

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been refrigerated or frozen.

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Dixie: That's very interesting.

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After all the animals that you've

worked with, what have they taught

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you about resilience, and what do

you wish every human understood

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about their emotional lives?

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Leia: Thank you for asking that.

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What I've learned from the animals is

that we exist in service to other beings.

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People are here, and we are all thinking

that we're here to achieve something.

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We're here to learn something.

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We're here to master something.

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And so we carry that with us.

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But animals have taught me that

we are here to experience the

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balance of living in harmony.

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And however that can happen,

that is the great prize.

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That no matter what we may feel we have

achieved in our lifetime or what goal we

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have for our own achievement that hasn't

happened yet, the process of getting there

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is more important than reaching the goal.

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And the process, if the-- the

process should always include

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taking each step in harmony with

what is going on in our lives.

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And if what is going on in our lives

is so chaotic or so destructive in any

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way, chaotic or destructive, define

that as you might, then we need to

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change the circumstances of our lives

so that we can experience harmony.

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And right now on the planet,

there is so much going on that

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is addressing that exact point.

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There is so much that is not in harmony.

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There is so much conflict.

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There is so much fear.

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So for one thing, I advise

people to turn off the TV.

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Don't watch the news.

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You can get the news.

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You can find out what's going on in

the world by looking at headlines.

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And of course, yes, you'd

like to be informed.

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Find a source that gives you

facts without inciting fear.

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Our animals will act out.

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We call it acting out.

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They're just trying to get our attention

to say, "You're not on the right path.

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You're not feeling yourself as a

being of harmony and grace, and you

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are a being of harmony and grace."

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That's what I've learned from the animals.

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Dixie: We learn a lot from our animals.

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The energy exchange between the the

family and their pets is definitely there.

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And I think sometimes it is important

to just kinda calm down and listen.

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Leia: Absolutely.

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And listen to the animal.

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Listen to what is just around you.

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We need more silence.

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We don't have enough silence.

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Dixie: Thank you so much for

having this conversation with me.

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It's been very enlightening,

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And

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Before we go, how can people find you?

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Leia: I am at lightspeak.com.

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L-I-G-H-T-S-P-E-A-K.com.

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And there's a Contact

Me button right there.

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My love for animals has driven me to dedicate the last 20 years to rescue. In 2024, we established a 501c3 nonprofit Unwanted Feline Organization Inc. and are thrilled to be building a cat sanctuary in Washington Parish, Louisiana, where we can offer a haven for cats in need. I thought it would be great for the rescue to have a podcast so Animal Posse was started with the hope of bringing rescues together, getting them more exposure, and finding more animals
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