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Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection
A guide to understanding the profound connection in animal/human relationships and its potential for mutual healing
• 2020 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award
• Explains the unspoken connection between people and their animal companions and how they share the same energetic patterns and emotional wounds
• Outlines specific behavioral traits and physical issues that animals may exhibit as they mirror their caregiver’s emotional state of being
• Explores holistic modalities humans can employ, such as energy therapy, to promote healing in animals and ultimately themselves
The animals we attract in our lives reflect us in many ways. Our connections with them run deeply, down to the soul level. Just like us, they are also on a journey to evolve their soul through their relationships and experiences, and each has deeply spiritual messages for us and intentions for our personal growth. In this book, Tammy Billups invites you to explore and deepen this profound relationship, showing how you can co-evolve along with your animal companions, experience unconditional love, and, ultimately, enact healing for both animal and caregiver.
Offering a soulful and bioenergetic perspective on decoding our animals’ actions, behaviors, and physical issues, Billups explains how our animal companions share our energetic patterns and emotional wounds, revealing issues in our own lives that may be hidden or suppressed. She identifies the five core emotional wounds in animals and the ways in which they manifest, outlining specific behavioral traits and physical issues animals may exhibit as they mirror our emotional states. She explains how to connect with them on a profound level so we can grasp their needs more clearly and learn what they have to teach us. She also provides guidance to help your animals heal the emotional wounds and traumas that create their anxiety, stress behaviors, aggression, and fears.
The author details a three-step process to help you through decisions you will make on your pets’ behalf and explains how, when a person works on healing a core emotional issue in their life--abandonment for example--it helps the animal release this same issue and the corresponding negative behaviors as well. She also shows how extremely receptive animals are to energy work, holistic healing, and spiritual practices, explaining how these methods unlock emotional barriers and enable both person and animal to heal and reach their highest potential in conscious evolution.
Providing tools to identify our animals’ messages more quickly, the author shows how our pets’ higher purpose is to help people understand themselves.
• 2020 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award
• Explains the unspoken connection between people and their animal companions and how they share the same energetic patterns and emotional wounds
• Outlines specific behavioral traits and physical issues that animals may exhibit as they mirror their caregiver’s emotional state of being
• Explores holistic modalities humans can employ, such as energy therapy, to promote healing in animals and ultimately themselves
The animals we attract in our lives reflect us in many ways. Our connections with them run deeply, down to the soul level. Just like us, they are also on a journey to evolve their soul through their relationships and experiences, and each has deeply spiritual messages for us and intentions for our personal growth. In this book, Tammy Billups invites you to explore and deepen this profound relationship, showing how you can co-evolve along with your animal companions, experience unconditional love, and, ultimately, enact healing for both animal and caregiver.
Offering a soulful and bioenergetic perspective on decoding our animals’ actions, behaviors, and physical issues, Billups explains how our animal companions share our energetic patterns and emotional wounds, revealing issues in our own lives that may be hidden or suppressed. She identifies the five core emotional wounds in animals and the ways in which they manifest, outlining specific behavioral traits and physical issues animals may exhibit as they mirror our emotional states. She explains how to connect with them on a profound level so we can grasp their needs more clearly and learn what they have to teach us. She also provides guidance to help your animals heal the emotional wounds and traumas that create their anxiety, stress behaviors, aggression, and fears.
The author details a three-step process to help you through decisions you will make on your pets’ behalf and explains how, when a person works on healing a core emotional issue in their life--abandonment for example--it helps the animal release this same issue and the corresponding negative behaviors as well. She also shows how extremely receptive animals are to energy work, holistic healing, and spiritual practices, explaining how these methods unlock emotional barriers and enable both person and animal to heal and reach their highest potential in conscious evolution.
Providing tools to identify our animals’ messages more quickly, the author shows how our pets’ higher purpose is to help people understand themselves.
- GenresAnimals
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 10, 2018
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September 19, 2019
What a beautiful book on how animals sense our energy and emotional wounds and often reflect that back to us – all in an effort to help us heal – and then how it often helps our animal friends heal too.
Because animals don’t speak our language, Tammy identifies through her work and book, five core emotional wounds that our animals can experience – and then how this is often reflected in their behaviors, actions, and physical issues – and to add to this – these are emotional wounds we as humans experience also.
Having recently gone through a deep emotional healing with my dog Gidget who was the most profound reflection of what I needed to heal, I can attest to this 100%. I easily identified two core emotional wounds through Tammy’s book that my dog worked diligently to help me heal, and I’m happy to say I did the inner work to do just that. But what was the most profound proof for me of my healing was that I was able to be witness to a beautiful and calm shift in Gidget as she healed too.
My favorite paragraph in the book is this one:
“A (human) congested energy field can affect all aspects of one’s emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Consequently, this knowledge can significantly influence the choices you make about your animals’ care. Knowing how sensitive they are to your emotions is also motivation for you to do your own energetic housekeeping.”
This, to me, is one of the keys to the book. When I was in my own dark night of the soul and realized I needed support and then began to heal, I wanted to do my work not only for myself but for Gidget too. I wanted her to live out the remaining of her life with more harmony and peace.
While I wish I’d had Tammy’s book when I was going through such a difficult time the last few years, reading her book now is just more validation and confirmation of what I experienced.
After reading Tammy’s book and having had to say goodbye to Gidget in May of 2019 I can say that I believe what Tammy shares in her book needs to be read by everyone who shares their life with a pet.
And I wholeheartedly concur with the last line on the back cover and that our “pets higher purpose is to help people understand themselves.”
Because animals don’t speak our language, Tammy identifies through her work and book, five core emotional wounds that our animals can experience – and then how this is often reflected in their behaviors, actions, and physical issues – and to add to this – these are emotional wounds we as humans experience also.
Having recently gone through a deep emotional healing with my dog Gidget who was the most profound reflection of what I needed to heal, I can attest to this 100%. I easily identified two core emotional wounds through Tammy’s book that my dog worked diligently to help me heal, and I’m happy to say I did the inner work to do just that. But what was the most profound proof for me of my healing was that I was able to be witness to a beautiful and calm shift in Gidget as she healed too.
My favorite paragraph in the book is this one:
“A (human) congested energy field can affect all aspects of one’s emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Consequently, this knowledge can significantly influence the choices you make about your animals’ care. Knowing how sensitive they are to your emotions is also motivation for you to do your own energetic housekeeping.”
This, to me, is one of the keys to the book. When I was in my own dark night of the soul and realized I needed support and then began to heal, I wanted to do my work not only for myself but for Gidget too. I wanted her to live out the remaining of her life with more harmony and peace.
While I wish I’d had Tammy’s book when I was going through such a difficult time the last few years, reading her book now is just more validation and confirmation of what I experienced.
After reading Tammy’s book and having had to say goodbye to Gidget in May of 2019 I can say that I believe what Tammy shares in her book needs to be read by everyone who shares their life with a pet.
And I wholeheartedly concur with the last line on the back cover and that our “pets higher purpose is to help people understand themselves.”
November 17, 2022
I love this book. Among its many wonderful features is a section describing the types of emotional wounds our animal companions may be carrying. I felt this to be very apt, mirroring the types of wounds people carry too. I love Tammy’s personable style. Her writing is both warm and inspiring. This is a beautiful book, perfect for anyone wanting to connect with animals at a deep level.
March 30, 2021
Extraordinarily thoughtful and complete. So grateful for this book and its wisdom and guidance. Thank you Tammy.
December 23, 2019
TO FAR FETCHED FOR ME.
January 23, 2021
Billups is preaching to the choir here!
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February 18, 2023
A must read for all animal lovers and pet parents.
February 18, 2018
This book is dedicated to "all animal lovers wanting to bring more awareness and light into the heart of their relationships with their animal companions in the name of love." YES, I thought. Exactly. That is me. We have three rescued beloved companions: two adolescent cats and one elderly dog and I love all of them with all my heart. The author affirms for me that there is more to our relationships with our beloved pets than meets the eye. She discusses energy healing (bioenergetics) with the voice of experience and authority and I loved learning more about this to use with our own animals. Getting emotionally close to them as well as "mirroring" are two topics that especially fascinated me. She writes well and gives excellent examples as stories from her own life and her own pets, so that the ideas she is presenting are easily assimilated.
March 12, 2018
I approached this book with some skepticism as I have always been a believer in Caesar Milan's (the "dog whisperer ") approach that all misbehaviors and neurotic behaviors are a result of the owners not acting as calm, assertive pack leaders who stop these behaviors with appropriate cues and transmission of that energy. I still believe that but I also accept that we attract an animal with certain energy patterns to help based on our own energy needs. We learn from each other. I am going to reread the book and practice the applicable exercises. None of us are perfect and I personally believe we are here to learn.
My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.
My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.
March 11, 2018
I was curious and a bit sceptic about this book. I'm an animal lover and found the theme interesting.
It's a good book with interesting stories and good exercises.
Recommended for animal lovers.
Many thanks to Inner Traditions and Netgalley
It's a good book with interesting stories and good exercises.
Recommended for animal lovers.
Many thanks to Inner Traditions and Netgalley
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November 5, 2018Taking this off my reading list for now. I may check it back out from the library someday to finish.
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