Like many Animal Communicators, I didn't realize that I was being tutored by own animals, or that I had been 'doing it' for quite awhile. As a young adult enjoying urban life after growing up on a small farm in the Appalachian foothills, I had completely forgotten the pasture talks with my pony as a child. I had never noticed them as different from anything else because I thought everyone experienced this knowingness and fun.

 

But even in the city noise and excitement, I still knew I was fascinated with the idea that I could know more about the animals I loved and lived with. In some of my researching days in the 90s, I stumbled across the concept  of animal communication as a profession, learning that I could book an appointment with a human and see what my animals had to say. I was so excited that the two week wait was excruciating and I couldn't sleep the night before.

 

It was a short session and the conversation was simple but I was elated and transformed. Over the next 15 years I talked with many different animal communicators, and at one point realized I was hearing the same answers to the questions as the communicators themselves, and I begin to remember that this had been the case all along.

 

This led me to classes and workshops, developing my process; but I also recognized that my true teacher had been leading the way: Benjamin Moore, my devoted and humorous cat. I had thought I was just goofing around having fun with him, and I was; and we were communicating. 

 

Ben left his body in the summer of 2012, but he left me on my path, and lives in my heart, still laughing.