I recently got a dog and I agree - they truly support healing in incredible ways, my puppy, Una - I say - she “broke me” in the best way - broke me open and woke me up to things I couldn’t see or feel without her as a hermitic single light worker
And - as you said - they bring unconditional love, grounding and stability which when you devote your life to healing and helping others heal can be anything but grounded and stable and unconditionally loving - love this perspective !
How divine and beautiful! I always say our pets are angels or guides directly sent to us. They are amazing teachers and healers. I get most of signs from animals in nature or my pets. Sometimes I think since they can't speak words, it forces us to go within and "feel" what they are trying to bring through.
Thank you Laura, my month of May has taken me deeper into my fear of abandonment, fear of loss and other related wounds/fears. Your story helped me. I also can see in my life the divine synchronicity whenever it takes a series of events or people to bring something up to the surface to heal. It can be easy(easier) to label or identify divine synchronicity with 'positive' experiences but it's so beautiful when we recognize divine orchestration bringing up our wounds, trauma (or anything that might be perceived as not (initial) positive experiences). That it's all divine and always for us. The divine works in such mysterious and unexpected ways sometimes and always showing us it's guiding and supporting us.
Caring good read . So much hope, joy, regrets history, and your recovery and discovery of your path now,.
I found your words comforting, and your companion too. Well done for being brave through your hells, and now for being you. A voice for another...hip. hay. You deserve a hooray! And your cover photo really rocks....kind regards, Keith.
Agh this was so beautiful and made me cry a little bit because I exactly know that type of love! I have learned how to love from my cats they literally healed my deepest wounds with their unconditional loving presence 💞
Thank you so much for sharing, Laura. No surprise, I cried. I am a 'cat person', and yet I can relate to the reliability, attachment and unconditional love a pet brings to the table.
However, what came up first was a memory from a retreat circle I attended many years ago, where a bunch of women was taking space around the theme of birthing and labor pains.
It was messy, raw and tumultuous, to say the least. For some reason, I did not feel called to join. Instead I remained in circle and my attention went to the men who were providing the container. I was truly hypnotized and could not take my eyes off of the outer circle created by 12 men holding hands, showing loving presence and sheltering the screaming women processing their emotions.
Voices in my head ("They have to walk away, they must be overwhelmed, if not disgusted by the women's 'hysteria'") were meeting the reality of the situation (no matter the artificial and constructed environment). Coming from a lineage of husbands and fathers abandoning their families (through war, illness, addiction or by simply being absent-minded), this was such a moving and relieving eye-opener that truly stretched my nervous system and blew my heart wide open.
Without being a killjoy: Still working on my abandonment issues til today, but the healing journey definitely started back then!
Beautifully written thank you. I'm currently caring for my dog Dolly who is nearly 19. It's been a ride and I'm sure she is still only here to teach me some more about my self. For me all my biggest moments have been the most mundane. Not grand to anyone else but huge for me.
This part really reminded me of myself: "What she saw as abandonment was, to me, just the reality of the situation".
Also, about being caught in an unhealthy repetition cycle, I am sure you probably heard of trauma repetition, and that sometimes people do this so we feel we "master" the trauma? I know I've done that and it sounded to me like you did, too.
Oh, Laura, this is so rich and so true - healing is complex, back-and-forth, up and down. Leo captured my heart for some reason the first time I saw him on your Instagram page. Something about him...
I have loved dogs my entire life. But, for whatever reason, after I made a serious life-changing decision at 49 and moved away, I have never had a dog companion since. Both family dogs died shortly after I moved away. I was sick and broken and felt that I could only care for myself. That was over twenty years ago. My daughter can’t believe that I still don’t have a dog. When I lived in the city, all the dogs in my apartment building were my friends. Now that I live in the country, I get my dog fix at the farmer’s market. Still, it’s not the same.
This post really struck a chord with me. Thank you for the beautiful, vulnerable share.
George is my greatest gift from God. I relate deeply to almost every word of your story. Thank you for sharing this, and thank you god for the healing love of these pure beings. I’m so grateful for my (almost) nine year old bulldog. He’s my soulmate. Sending you both so much love!!!
This experience you shared I relate to very much-though never thought about it in the way you described. My Shepard most definitely has been a great helper on my healing journey and my cats. 🪷
Wow - reading the title, I knew this piece was going to make me cry some healing tears. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story ☺️ the greatest healers in my life have been my dogs over the last 17 years of having one. Xoxo
Who cried? Definitely me. Thanks for this, Laura. 🤗
I recently got a dog and I agree - they truly support healing in incredible ways, my puppy, Una - I say - she “broke me” in the best way - broke me open and woke me up to things I couldn’t see or feel without her as a hermitic single light worker
And - as you said - they bring unconditional love, grounding and stability which when you devote your life to healing and helping others heal can be anything but grounded and stable and unconditionally loving - love this perspective !
How divine and beautiful! I always say our pets are angels or guides directly sent to us. They are amazing teachers and healers. I get most of signs from animals in nature or my pets. Sometimes I think since they can't speak words, it forces us to go within and "feel" what they are trying to bring through.
Thank you Laura, my month of May has taken me deeper into my fear of abandonment, fear of loss and other related wounds/fears. Your story helped me. I also can see in my life the divine synchronicity whenever it takes a series of events or people to bring something up to the surface to heal. It can be easy(easier) to label or identify divine synchronicity with 'positive' experiences but it's so beautiful when we recognize divine orchestration bringing up our wounds, trauma (or anything that might be perceived as not (initial) positive experiences). That it's all divine and always for us. The divine works in such mysterious and unexpected ways sometimes and always showing us it's guiding and supporting us.
Caring good read . So much hope, joy, regrets history, and your recovery and discovery of your path now,.
I found your words comforting, and your companion too. Well done for being brave through your hells, and now for being you. A voice for another...hip. hay. You deserve a hooray! And your cover photo really rocks....kind regards, Keith.
Agh this was so beautiful and made me cry a little bit because I exactly know that type of love! I have learned how to love from my cats they literally healed my deepest wounds with their unconditional loving presence 💞
Thank you so much for sharing, Laura. No surprise, I cried. I am a 'cat person', and yet I can relate to the reliability, attachment and unconditional love a pet brings to the table.
However, what came up first was a memory from a retreat circle I attended many years ago, where a bunch of women was taking space around the theme of birthing and labor pains.
It was messy, raw and tumultuous, to say the least. For some reason, I did not feel called to join. Instead I remained in circle and my attention went to the men who were providing the container. I was truly hypnotized and could not take my eyes off of the outer circle created by 12 men holding hands, showing loving presence and sheltering the screaming women processing their emotions.
Voices in my head ("They have to walk away, they must be overwhelmed, if not disgusted by the women's 'hysteria'") were meeting the reality of the situation (no matter the artificial and constructed environment). Coming from a lineage of husbands and fathers abandoning their families (through war, illness, addiction or by simply being absent-minded), this was such a moving and relieving eye-opener that truly stretched my nervous system and blew my heart wide open.
Without being a killjoy: Still working on my abandonment issues til today, but the healing journey definitely started back then!
Beautifully written thank you. I'm currently caring for my dog Dolly who is nearly 19. It's been a ride and I'm sure she is still only here to teach me some more about my self. For me all my biggest moments have been the most mundane. Not grand to anyone else but huge for me.
Thanks for this, Laura.
This part really reminded me of myself: "What she saw as abandonment was, to me, just the reality of the situation".
Also, about being caught in an unhealthy repetition cycle, I am sure you probably heard of trauma repetition, and that sometimes people do this so we feel we "master" the trauma? I know I've done that and it sounded to me like you did, too.
Oh, Laura, this is so rich and so true - healing is complex, back-and-forth, up and down. Leo captured my heart for some reason the first time I saw him on your Instagram page. Something about him...
I have loved dogs my entire life. But, for whatever reason, after I made a serious life-changing decision at 49 and moved away, I have never had a dog companion since. Both family dogs died shortly after I moved away. I was sick and broken and felt that I could only care for myself. That was over twenty years ago. My daughter can’t believe that I still don’t have a dog. When I lived in the city, all the dogs in my apartment building were my friends. Now that I live in the country, I get my dog fix at the farmer’s market. Still, it’s not the same.
This post really struck a chord with me. Thank you for the beautiful, vulnerable share.
Beautiful story ❤️
OMG! did I cry and I'm going down to the sauna to cry more like I have been this Pluto in Scorpio. so tender and touching.
Thanks for sharing!! It made me cry, too 🥲 I call my oldest dog, Kicker, my doguru.
George is my greatest gift from God. I relate deeply to almost every word of your story. Thank you for sharing this, and thank you god for the healing love of these pure beings. I’m so grateful for my (almost) nine year old bulldog. He’s my soulmate. Sending you both so much love!!!
This experience you shared I relate to very much-though never thought about it in the way you described. My Shepard most definitely has been a great helper on my healing journey and my cats. 🪷
Wow - reading the title, I knew this piece was going to make me cry some healing tears. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story ☺️ the greatest healers in my life have been my dogs over the last 17 years of having one. Xoxo