Q: Why did my animal get sick?

A: This is one of first questions I receive.

“No greater love than this is for someone to lay down their life for their fellow man”

One of first things I need to tell you is that animals love you so unconditionally and so completely, that they act as shamanic healers. What I mean is that they will gladly sacrifice their own health and life by instinctively “taking on” their owner’s illness or disease in an attempt to cure them.

If you are a healer, please keep your animals out of your healing room, especially if you have an extremely ill client.

My miniature dachshund, Fritzl, thinks that everyone who rings doorbell is really coming to visit him. He escorts them, making a breeze with his wagging tail, all way into my healing room. I know right there and then that healing has already begun.

I have know Fritzl to jump up onto my massage table, lay between my client’s legs, and send love energy to them. And Fritzl get so sad and begins to whine and cry when I pick him up to move him! He wants to help heal, and knows he can do it.

If we listen very close our body speaks to us. Our inner voice tells us when something is not right. Our body talks to us in form of physical symptoms and reveals to us problems within through these symptoms. What we must do is ask question of what is causing these symptoms our body reveals to us and what needs to be changed to fix underlying problems. Symptoms need to be corrected and not suppressed.

When we get a headache first thing we do is reach for a pain reliever, and in most cases pain reliever then takes pain away. What we must ask is what caused pain, which is a symptom of our body telling us of a problem. What you actually got was a temporary fix to head pain, however what caused pain in first place is still there.

Several years ago, I sat at my doctors office frustrated to tears because I had a chronic skin condition called Hidradenitis Suppurativa. This chronic skin condition affects glandular areas of body in which causes boil type lesions that are very painful. With no known cure or cause of this condition, doctors I saw could not offer me much help. This is when I knew that I must help myself and find reason for my condition. I listened to my body by taking a good look at symptoms my body was using to tell me something was wrong.