In relationship…
Where it began
There has never been a time in my life where animals were not present.
I grew up with a field as my backyard & a pond across the street. My days were spent catching crawdads, climbing apple trees, & tending to whatever creatures found their way into my care. Lost and hurt animals often came to me. I would find homes for the strays, rehabilitate & release the wild ones, & sit with those who were not meant to stay.
Even then, there was a kind of listening happening, grounded in presence. An underlying knowing that didn’t need to be explained.
As I grew older, life became fuller & faster, & that way of listening faded into the background.
I followed more conventional paths, studying business, managing roles, supervising a dog daycare, and eventually becoming a groomer. I was still surrounded by animals, but that something deeper had been hushed.
Until it wasn’t.
In 2018, within the span of a single week, several friends came to me with questions about their animals. As I listened & responded, something became unmistakably clear, I was hearing their animals again.
It felt like a homecoming.
That realization brought me back to a part of myself I had known as a child but hadn’t fully understood.
I sought out guidance & began studying intuitive interspecies communication as a way to refine something that had always been present.
Over time, this way of listening deepened, opening into a more relational & participatory experience.
I don’t experience animals as beings to be managed or interpreted. I experience them as aware, relational, and sovereign- each carrying their own perspective, intelligence, & role within the lives they share with us.
What I offer is a space where your animal’s awareness can be heard more clearly. A space where something deeper in the relationship can come forward.
Today, I live on an acreage. Once again with a field behind my home & a river running close by. My life is shared with my husband, my children, and the animals who continue to shape the rhythm of our days.
In many ways, my life has come full circle, but with a deeper understanding of what was always there.
This is not something I see as separate from life.
It’s a way of being in relationship. One that honors listening, presence, & the possibility that there is always more unfolding beneath what we think we understand.
And this is the space I now hold for others.