Episode #76 Tami Friday’s Healing Journey: From Occupational Therapy to Mastering Animal Communication and Reiki – Embracing Energy Healing, Intuitive Connection, and Nurturing Bonds with Pets

Unlock the secret to a deeper connection with your pets through the incredible journey of Tami  Friday, a professional animal communicator and Reiki master teacher. From overcoming debilitating migraines through the transformative power of Reiki, Tami's story is one of resilience and discovery. Learn how her transition from an occupational therapist to an acclaimed energy healer has allowed her to aid humans and animals in remarkable ways, using techniques such as craniosacral therapy and distance energy healing.

Experience the heartwarming story of Leighton, a dog whose anxiety about a newborn baby was transformed through Tami’s expert and empathetic communication. Discover the paramount importance of respecting animals as equals and treating them with the same care and consideration given to human clients. Tami’s wisdom underscores the fundamental qualities essential for anyone in the field of Reiki and animal communication, highlighting warmth, openness, and kindness as cornerstones of effective practice.

Immerse yourself in Tami’s practical advice on animal communication, including the significance of observing animals and trusting your intuitive perceptions. Get introduced to valuable resources like "Animal Communication Made Easy" by P. Horsley and explore Tami's various services, from energy healing for pets and people to space clearing. Visit Tami TamiFriday.com. to book a session and learn how visual imagery, emotional clarity, and respectful communication can profoundly enhance your animal relationship, promoting mutual understanding and deeper bonds.

Tami Friday, Animal Communicator, Helps Animal Lovers Seeking Harmony, Healing and Understanding

Tami Friday is a professional animal communicator who can telepathically connect with any willing species, living or departed. She also provides energetic assistance for pets, people and their property. Tami utilizes her background as an occupational therapist and reiki master teacher to convey a compassionate and healing presence during her online sessions.

Tami Friday’s clients consist of animal lovers who are seeking insights from their animals to resolve behavioral or emotional issues, to support their health and wellness, help navigate end-of-life decisions, and to connect in spirit. She shares, “I love to foster mutual understanding between a person and their animal, whether it is to help solve issues that crop up or to help deepen their bond.” She also enjoys providing energy healing services to help support pets and people as they navigate emotional, behavioral, or health challenges.

For more information or to schedule an online session via phone or Zoom, visit TamiFriday.com.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:10

Thank you very much.

Speaker 2: 0:31

This is Ready Set Reiki a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, From the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts, as we two are traveling, supporting each other and learning on this Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I am your guide, tracy Seawright, and today joining me on my journey is Tammy Friday. She is a professional animal communicator who can telepathically connect with any willing species living or departed. She also provides energetic assistance for pets, people and their property. She utilizes her background as an occupational therapist and Reiki master teacher to convey a compassionate and healing presence.

Speaker 2: 1:26

During her online sessions. Clients consist of animal lovers who are seeking insight for their animals to resolve behavioral and emotional issues, support their health and wellness, to help navigating end-of-life decisions and to connect in spirit she shares. I love to foster mutual understanding between a person and their animal, whether it is to help solve issues that crop up or to help deepen their bond. She enjoys providing energy healing services to help support pets and people as they navigate emotionally, behaviorally or health challenges. Tammy, welcome to Ready Set Reiki.

Speaker 3: 2:05

Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.

Speaker 2: 2:10

All right, we're going to dive right in. So our first question is tell us a little bit about yourself. So I gave our listeners just a little bit about you.

Speaker 3: 2:19

So just a bit. I live in the Milwaukee Wisconsin area and I have a spouse and I have a cat, grayson, and a dog, stuart, and actually my animals help me during my sessions the animal communication and energy healing if they want to. I always I ask them you know we have a session coming up later, would you like to help, and you know if you want to and then they help and my dog has had some health issues. He's a little bit older and I've actually noticed since I started the animal communication more actively he's got like a renewed sense of purpose, which is really cool.

Speaker 2: 2:53

So wonderful, wonderful. I love that. So, of course, our title here is Reiki, but it's working with all types of energy. So when did the Reiki or the energy work come into your life?

Speaker 3: 3:06

You know, I would say, even with, like the animal communication probably would not have occurred in my life without the Reiki. I feel like the Reiki was a catalyst for just opening up to the world that you can't always explain things and things can be helpful and healing and even if you don't understand them, that opened my world. I used to have really debilitating migraine headaches and I tried all these different things to feel better and a physician assistant, you know, recommended why don't you try Reiki? And I thought, why not? You know the other things I was doing weren't so helpful. Why not? You know the other things I was doing weren't so helpful. And my first Reiki session, I believe, was like 2014 and I was just, I was just blown away with the first session. I remember the Reiki practitioner um, she like had her hand hovering over I can't remember if it was my heart or heart chakra or my head and I started bawling and I was like you know, it wasn't like bad, it was like, but I was at one point I was emotional during the sessionling and I was like you know, it wasn't like bad, it was like, but I was at one point I was emotional during the session. The other part. I'm like what is this? You know she didn't touch me even, like what's happening. I was so intrigued and you know she shared that.

Speaker 3: 4:18

You know, learning Reiki I could help with healing myself with the migraine headaches and at the time I was a practicing occupational therapist working with people rehabbing and having that background of Reiki would also be healing and helpful for my patients. So from then on I took Reiki classes, eventually became a Reiki master and utilized it in my occupational therapy practice a little bit informally. I worked in hospitals and home care but I realized that wasn't my calling and I think Reiki kind of opened up my world to being more authentic. To be honest, over time I got a lot of Reiki sessions over my life starting then and I wasn't happy in occupational therapy. So I thought you know what I really want to start my own business. I was learning craniosacral therapy at the time, which is like a body work, and I thought you know what? Let me do craniosacral therapy, reiki with people and do distance Reiki and energy healing techniques over distance, for like animals and people, and that's what I did. I ended up leaving occupational therapy, mostly because of the migraine headaches were so bad and just focused on my own healing and focused on growing my business.

Speaker 3: 5:35

And while I was doing that, I was, you know, developing intuitive development, taking a lot of classes psychic development, mediumship, animal communication, you know all that sort of fun stuff and but I still felt like something wasn't quite there. I was, I was doing animal communication a little bit. I should backtrack, like probably about 2016. I was dating this person. We had a couple dates in, in, and all of a sudden I heard my dog in my mind's ear. We're all hanging out in the living room and my dog says I'm so glad they're in our life, you know, in our lives. And I was like what, like, like that was? It felt like he was literally talking to me, you know, like it wasn't like verbal, like audio, and nobody else could hear, but I heard it plain as day and I, I wanted to have that happen again and I couldn't. I'm like speak to me more, you know.

Speaker 3: 6:31

And so it was probably a couple of years after that where, when I was starting to do energy healing sessions with animals, I started to receive information from them. They'd show me images or thoughts and I had no idea if what they were saying was true or not. I started to share it with the clients, the people, and said this is what I'm getting. It turned out like oh, that does resonate, that feels like it.

Speaker 3: 6:57

And I had a turning point, probably in I think it was like 2022, I had a session with two cats who were fighting. A client reached out to me and says this is all over distance and she said you know, maybe can the energy healing help. I said I'll give it a try and you know, I thought I'm going to actually incorporate the animal communication into the session, not just dabble in it. Let's just see why are they fighting. So I asked the cats, like why are you fighting? And they told me they said there's a lot of stress in the household right now. Just a lot of chaos right now, a lot of changes, and we're just stressed out and we're just taking out on each other. And I said, okay, and so I could gear the energy healing to just help them with their stress, kind of lower their stress levels. And that was that.

Speaker 3: 7:45

And the next day the client sent me a picture of these two cats snuggling and I was just like I didn't really expect anything, but I it just really moved my heart and I just thought, wow, you know the the power of animal communication to kind of tap into what's the animal's perspective, what are their thoughts, their feelings, you know. I mean, just imagine if we couldn't talk to each other. Like how hard that would be, and you know, to meet, you know our needs and help help meet somebody else's needs. And so I just decided almost pretty much then, and there I'm going to shift my entire business to animal communication, supplemented with the energy healing.

Speaker 3: 8:25

And so I got on a fast track of learning more. I read books, I took more classes and I practiced, practice, practiced. I did probably months of free sessions. Let me practice with your animal living, departed any species, and I just love it so much and I've been doing that ever since. So that's kind of really fast how I kind of got started in the animal communication to find my calling. For a long time I didn't feel like I had quite found it. Something always felt missing.

Speaker 2: 8:56

And so when I found the animal communication and then supplementation with energy healing, I thought, oh, this is how I love to serve, so yeah, Beautiful, and I mean you never probably would have imagined when you started your journey as an occupational therapist that you would ever be doing this today.

Speaker 3: 9:14

Exactly. I was more into this science and logic and what you can see, touch, and I needed all those steps of the migraine headaches. Who wants migraine headaches? Who wants to suffer with pain and injury and illness? But if I hadn't suffered that way, I would never have taken Reiki.

Speaker 3: 9:35

And Reiki, excuse me, opened my eyes, opened everything up to you know, like with that lady, when she put her hand over my head, not even touching me, and I felt something. I cried. I mean, that was my first inkling that there is something there we can't see. And I often would tell clients, especially if they're new to Reiki or any type of energy healing. I always say you know, it's like, it's like a microscope. You know there's bacteria, there's viruses, viruses. You know, a couple hundred years ago we didn't, we couldn't see it, we didn't know what existed. I said maybe someday they'll have a little monitor and be like beep, beep, there's the reiki energy or there's the whatever. In other words, just because we don't see it or have a tangible way to measure it, um, I mean that's happening, but doesn't mean it's not real, doesn't mean mean it's not happening, it's just. It's just in a different way, it's a different sensory thing for us.

Speaker 2: 10:34

And so, yeah, change. And then we're resistant. And then it gets louder to the point like, okay, I'll go this way. And you know you continued with that. You didn't give up, you continued seeking knowledge, continued treatments, you continue to grow. And then you know that didn't feel right. You shifted, you went in a different way and it brought you to where your true purpose is. So bravo for that. For continuing on the journey.

Speaker 3: 11:06

Thank you.

Speaker 2: 11:07

The key with that that you said is practice, practice, practice. You know many people want the now results, but it's cumulative and just starting and getting a Reiki session or going to a training class doesn't necessarily mean that's where you have to stay. It could catapult you somewhere else. You can go somewhere you never even imagined it's going to heal those parts of you and you might end up doing, you know, light language or tarot reading or something else that's your passion. It helps you find your passion and heals that part of you.

Speaker 3: 11:39

Absolutely. And you know I've kind of learned, I would say earlier in time I was a little bit more resistant to change, you know, and not like it's super easy. Now it can be hard. That's why we tend, I think, as humans we tend not to want to so much, unless you're a risk taker by heart. But when you start to learn, wow, when I reduce that resistance and start to allow that to come in, because I find like for me anyway, what really that allowance was, is for me to be more authentic and to kind of drop the baggage of expectation. You know I should be an occupational therapist.

Speaker 3: 12:17

I put money and sweat and tears into becoming this and it pays a certain amount, it's a status thing, whatever, whatever, whatever had to shut all that and come into the woo-woo world of things where, you know, I can't say exactly how Reiki works. I don't exactly know. I just know it can be helpful. But yet it feels good. And stepping into what feels good, I've learned more and more to just do it anyway If it resonates. I've learned more and more to just do it anyway If it. If it resonates, I might be scared as heck, but you know, if I don't, I usually suffer more.

Speaker 2: 12:51

So Right, or our next question is what is a common misperception about your work?

Speaker 3: 12:58

I would say probably, as as far as, like the animal communication and even raking, energy healing, it's maybe the mindset that maybe clients come into it of fix my animal or fix myself, where it's this passive process that you know you'll do all the whatever woo-woo or work and then it's a magic will happen and you know it's really about um being involved in the process. And you know, especially with animals, sometimes I feel like there are some clients and it's not really their fault. I think it's our culture that animals have free will, they have their own motivations, their own desires and we're not really taught that If you're not used to communicating with animals, it's like they're like this blank slate and so there's a lot of misperception that, oh, you know my animal if they just's like they're like this blank slate and so there's a lot of misperception that, oh, you know my animal if they just do what they're told, that sort of thing. And I've learned just through the animal communication like, oh, there's a whole another layer, like one example I had a client where you know very nice dog and the family, they had a newborn baby and they brought her home and this client reached out a couple of days later saying you know, our dog is aggressive to the baby. We're we're scared for the baby's safety. You know, they think energy healing and animal communication could help them. Like I always say, let's try, you know.

Speaker 3: 14:23

And so we connected with the dog dog's name's Leighton, and Leighton was sharing that Leighton would like. Leighton was saying that there's stress in the house. You know, of course, right, you have a newborn baby. Even if it's good stress, it's stress, right. And the dog was like, oh, my god, there's stress. And Leighton said you know, the baby smells like mom, but smells different. And there's the stress. So Leighton almost gave this impression that Leighton saw the baby as like a tumor or an afterbirth or something to be gotten rid of to protect the family from. It was just a misunderstanding.

Speaker 3: 14:55

And so we talked with Leighton. Like you know, leighton, this is a new baby, this is part as a human, this is part of the family. Now, this is part of your pack. Will you be willing to allow this newborn back into your family? And there was a shift there. Layton decided, yes, I will. And the client, you know, noticed, she said later, she said I noticed a shift right away and from that moment on they were cuddle buddies and she'd see some. So she still sends like pictures of them together snuggling and things. And you know, just to know that, wow, just to get the animal's perspective and try to understand them, that goes a long way. And you know, like, oh, yeah, um, that makes sense, like it makes sense in her world the way it was, and just to clarify that.

Speaker 2: 15:44

So yeah, instead of having dominance over the animal, treat the animal as if you would treat the human client with that respect, you know, ask that permission, have that conversation with them, you know, instead of putting any demands or bossing around on them. So yeah, absolutely Right. Makes sense, All right. So our next question is what is something that you wish your younger self knew about your current?

Speaker 3: 16:11

profession and that was a struggle for me to find that career. If you will, that purpose, I really it eluded me. I stumble on different things, oh, this is good, kind of this is okay, but it just always felt like something was missing and I felt frustrated by it, sometimes depressed by it. And so now it's like I can look back to my younger self and say you know, hang in there, you know everything that you're doing, everything you're learning, isn't wasted. Hang in there, just everything that you're doing, everything you're learning, isn't wasted. You're building skills, you're learning things, good and bad, what to do, what not to do, what you like, what you don't like, and eventually it'll come. So I always say follow the breadcrumbs, like those intuitive perceptions, the urges, like I want to try this, I want to do this. Follow those breadcrumbs and you'll get here, you know.

Speaker 2: 17:05

You'll get there and all build it off each other to your higher purpose. So lessons are everywhere on the journey. Yes, so when it's time for you to get your energetic tune up, what qualities do you look for in a Reiki practitioner or an energy worker?

Speaker 3: 17:21

Pretty much the similar qualities, and these are qualities I strive to embody as well Somebody who is warm and open, open to who you are and or who the animal is, and nonjudgmental, you know, not saying, oh, you should do this way or this way or that, but open to who you are and where you're at being respectful we all have our differences and that sort of thing and just kind and loving. You know, it's really kind of simple. You're at being respectful. We all have our differences and that sort of thing, and just kind and loving. You know, it's really kind of simple. It's to me, it's not so much about all the little letters after your name or all the classes, you know it's. It's really, you know, embodying that openness.

Speaker 3: 18:00

There's, um, uh, I guess she would call herself a seer and she, when she talks with you, it's like she this is my goal to work on when she talks with you, it's like she's looking at your beautiful soul and she loves you, you who you are, and when you're in her presence, you feel like just loved, and even in your imperfections, and that's what I strive for to embody that. You know it's yeah, it's beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 3: 18:34

So what advice would you give someone who is just entering this profession? You know, if you're interested in animal communication, whatever level, whether it's being professional or whether it's just hey, I want to talk to my own animals or I'd like to know what that squirrel is thinking when I'm out in nature. You know, knowing that animals want to connect, I feel like right now, in this time, animals are, like you know, chomping at the bit, like we want to talk with you and they're waiting for people to want to receive that I feel like we all have. We all have that ability in our culture. It's just not been encouraged. And so, you know, if you're interested, having the desire to learn is the first thing. And then, you know, trusting and seeing what draws to. You know you can read books, you can.

Speaker 3: 19:20

There's so many different animal communication classes out there. Finding, you know, maybe someday I'll teach one. You never know. But you know, I feel like I'm still younger in that journey of animal communication. But finding a practitioner that fits your learning style too, there's so many different styles. And if you, even if you try one thing, if it's not quite a fit, maybe a different practitioner, different teacher, different route of learning will help you and then just observing I think really just observing animals sitting and watching your pets, seeing what they do. What would your perspective be in that situation and how do you think that they might be feeling or thinking in that situation? Trusting the perceptions you get. Even for me, that's how I started with information. I'm like, really, that doesn't make any sense, like when I was talking with Leighton, like afterbirth tumor, like no, that doesn't make any sense, but you just trust it. You just you have to be vulnerable with animal communication because you're always putting yourself out there and you could always be wrong. And you know animal communication it's not 100% anyway, I think. I think they say I don't know who they is, but they say, like with any mediumship or psychic ability or animal communication, you're always striving for 80% not 100, but 80 would be great. And so just going, trusting your instincts with it, playing with it, it it's okay to be wrong, and just having that desire will take you a long way.

Speaker 3: 20:51

You know, sit out in nature. You know, watch the squirrels, the birds, whatever animals come by, you pay attention. I actually started too, and I learned this from my Reiki master, who taught me when I would see unusual animals that you normally don't see, like something was unique, like you see deer once in a while, but all of a sudden you see six deer and that's unusual. Or you see an animal you normally don't see, or an animal doing something you normally don't see. Do you can look it up? You can type in what is the spiritual meaning of the squirrel or of deer and see if that information resonates. That was kind of a way to help me start to, you know, hone in on the wisdom of animals and the messages that they share. And now I don't need to log in unless I'm really tired, but do that search but I can tune in. Okay, what is? Do you have a message? You know? What would you like to share? All?

Speaker 2: 21:46

right, some great advice, very good. So what books do you recommend?

Speaker 3: 21:53

I really liked a book by P Horsley, so P is in the little legume, whatever it's called. Horsley Animal Communication Made Easy. It's actually a really nice read and there's meditations in there that I still use when I'm practicing and preparing for sessions. You know that's a really good book that I would recommend for people if it fits you. You know, like I said, there's so many different reading styles and you know you can literally do a search of that, but that's that's my favorite book like well by far, to be honest. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 22:31

Beautiful, beautiful. So what other modalities do you offer, and do you offer classes, events, trainings, online or in person?

Speaker 3: 22:51

So besides animal communication, I do the energy healing which it's kind of morphed from Reiki into. I was also doing something called like energy blast healing so I just called it that because it's just a different energy that I kind of fell into gosh, probably about four years now, and I use like a dowsing wand tool to just channel energy through. It's just a different energy, it's a little bit vocal, and I also do my background with craniosacral therapy. Even though that's a body, hands-on touch thing, I will use those techniques intending through distance. So when I'm doing a session, whether it's energy healing for pets, people or property, as I say, I'm looking at what intuitively of my toolbox of energy healing tools is draws me and will utilize that with the person. So, like with animals energy healing, I often work with animals if they have like anxiety or depression or even physical ailments just to help them.

Speaker 3: 23:41

A lot of times with stress, just helping calm the nervous system. Same thing with people, whether it's like anxiety is common or even grief. You know a lot I do have people that reach out because they've lost an animal and they're feeling like did I do something wrong or the way maybe their life ended? There's a lot of grief or shame or whatever around that. So healing for that. And then property, the space. I do space clearing. When we're in a space business or home you know you can feel drained or you can feel energized, you know. So if you're like, if you're at a wedding and you're excited, you feel the energy in the space. Or if you're somebody was arguing in a room, you're like, ooh, I feel something. It's just clearing that because we experience it. Our animals do too. So if you have like a lot of stress and tension, just clearing that out, so that it's just my way of supporting us, supporting our animals, yeah, Wonderful.

Speaker 2: 24:35

So where can we find you if someone wants to connect with you?

Speaker 3: 24:39

Yeah, so all my services are offered online, which is great, so you can be from anywhere, and the best way to reach me is my website, which is TammyFridaycom and I always say it's one of each letter T-A-M-I, and then Friday, f-r-i-d-a-ycom, and that's where you can learn about me, book a session or I have my contact information if you want to reach out, if you have any questions or anything that way.

Speaker 2: 25:07

All right, beautiful. Well, this ends our first part of our journey and we're going to head over and I'm going to continue to guide you through our social media questions. So listeners submit questions and I narrow it down to three questions just for you. So we're going to begin with question number one as an animal communicator, what is the lesson that this journey has taught you?

Speaker 3: 25:31

Really just to respect each other, that we all have our own points of view and that listening goes a long way, you know. Give another example I had a session with. A client had reached out because her cat was had a really bad eye infection and the cat wasn't, was very like squirming, not taking to the eye drops at all. And so the client reached out saying can an animal communication session help with my cat? And his name is Spike. And you know, I asked Spike, like you know what's going on with the eye, why don't you like these eye drops? And he said it stings. It stings, it's uncomfortable.

Speaker 3: 26:10

And what was really nice is that the person, the client, was very open. She basically, through the session, she kind of said well, here's the situation. You have eye drops and then you have gel and the cat's like okay, the gel doesn't hurt as much. Okay, good to know. She says we could do the drops, we could do the gel, we could do oral medication. But then if we do oral, you have to go to the vet, which you don't like, and then you're they're gonna have to monitor you for symptoms or nothing at all, and then you'll probably lose your eye and you'll have surgery. You could lose more, you could lose your life even, and you'll have surgery at the vet to remove your eye or both eyes. What would you like to do? So she, she was truly okay. She, she didn't have an agenda of. It's got to be this one option and that's it. She truly was like what do you want to do? It's your life. And so the cat said you know what? Let's do the gel, because the gel is less painful and and so that's what was decided. So the client did the gel and she reached out and she said the cat Spike was fine, he allowed her to do the drops.

Speaker 3: 27:16

And that just other stuff always blows me away. It's because we listen to the cat, you know what is the cat's perspective, and really just heard the cat and honored his decisions, his preferences and that sort of thing. And that's one lesson that I continuously learn is just that ability to really listen to another being and see from their point of view before we go in, to go in at it with our own agenda. It's sort of like put both of our agendas in and see if we can mix and match and come out with a win-win. You can't always, but if you can. That's great.

Speaker 3: 27:55

I guess I should share, like another, a book that can be really helpful is and I don't remember the author, but it's a book called the Explosive Child, so you can like look that up. But that book taught me a lot with animal communication. It's how to communicate with a child where traditional discipline and ways to help a child don't work. And the basic premise of the book is is almost like compromise negotiation, you know, like if the child doesn't want to go to bed at a certain time, okay, why is that? And then see where are you willing, where's the child willing to meet halfway somewhere and you test it out until both are satisfied. And the book goes in much more detail about it. But that promise of that really shapes my sessions with animals and people, like is there something that you're both willing to come to terms with and do, so you both can be happy?

Speaker 2: 28:50

so right, right, and it's just that freedom of choice, allowing them to have that choice, really makes a difference. That's, and that's all right, wonderful. So our next question is in your experience with working with animals, what is something I can do for my pet and maybe all animals?

Speaker 3: 29:08

yeah, really good question. Um, trying to see their point of view. And, I guess, communicate. You can communicate with them even if you're not receiving the information you can still like talk, talk with them.

Speaker 3: 29:20

You know one thing animals tell me is they like to often know what their day is looking like. So imagine, imagine if you started your day, you woke up today and you didn't know whether you were going to work, whether, if you started your day, you woke up today and you didn't know whether you were going to work, whether it was a day off, whether you're going on vacation, any errands that would feel for some. Some of us would be like this is cool, this is like you know. They would like it, but not everybody does. For some people can create an uneasiness, like I don't know what I'm doing today. Same with our animals. Some animals love that spontaneity, but some animals are like what is going on? And so just talking with your animal, like today I'm going to work, or or you know we're going to go for a walk after work, we're going to brush you if you know what's happening, or you have the vet coming up in a couple of days and that's to help you with that itch or whatever it is. And the way you can communicate with animals is you can speak. So animals have told me that they do read our minds, just as like the telepathy. But we're all over the place in our thoughts. You know, you know, and who can attest to that? Right? You're thinking one thing, then you're canceling it out, thinking the opposite, and it's just all over the place. That's just where thoughts go. And so animals they're like. Well, we don't know what's the dominant thought in that particular moment. So by speaking out loud, it puts that dominant thought, that energy out there. And so you can speak out loud to your animal and they'll get the gist of it. And you can also.

Speaker 3: 30:48

Animals also connect with visual imagery and emotion. So let's say you want to convey. You can try this. If you want to convey something, let's say a behavior that you're hoping for, you can visualize the behavior that you desire. So let's say it's your dog and you want, like your dog, to be quieter when people come. You can try this, because they may have their own reasons. You may have to work through more depth, but it's worth a shot.

Speaker 3: 31:16

It doesn't take any effort. At least it shows your animal what you're looking for. You visualize quietness and then you show that your emotions, your emotions might be content, happy, calm, whatever it may be. You know good energy emotions. And then you think of the behavior maybe you're not really desiring the dog barking, maybe jumping up on whoever's there, and you visualize that. And then you pair it with emotions that aren't so. Are the your emotions? I call them like maybe you're frustrated, you're scared, you're stressed, you're irritated, and that's you give these two scenarios. So you're kind of showing like this is what makes me happy, this is what makes me unhappy. Now, your animal still has a choice and they still have their own issues with navigating that. Sometimes it can help. Sometimes you may have to dig deeper, but just you know, just by starting to try to connect with your animals, to know that you care, by talking with them, goes a long way. So you know, that's what I would. That's the one thing you can, some tools you can try with your animals.

Speaker 2: 32:18

Wonderful. So I have five Cavalier King Charles and one of the Cavaliers. I have had kind of this behavioral issue with the other family that had him, so they were surrendered to me and so he had some trauma there and we've had him for about five years now and when I leave he can sense it. So I talk to them and I tell them I'm leaving but I'm coming back. Don't worry, I'll be home for the rest of the day. I just need to do this one thing and I'll hand him a toy and he'll take it and he just shakes, he shakes and shakes and shakes and stops and then he's okay. So a little bit of a reset with them. But yeah, I talked to them as if like you have a great day, and then I come back and I'm like did you have fun today? And I'm here for the rest of the day. So talk to them just like I do a person.

Speaker 3: 33:12

Absolutely, and that's all it is, and they love that. You know you get a positive, favorable response and your animal has the opportunity to release whatever tension and stress through the shaking and then understanding. You're coming back and it's going to be okay.

Speaker 2: 33:28

Yep, and I let them know. I'm like know, like I'm coming back, and it seems like they feel like they need to hear that like I'm, I'm coming back, don't worry, I'm only gonna be gone for an hour. And then I'll even say the one time something changed, I said boys, I lied, I have to go out again yep, and they, you know, oh my god, animals are so like there's in my experience.

Speaker 3: 33:48

They're so like forgiving and tolerant. If you just let them know, you know exactly, you say, okay, I forgot about this one, erin, and you could do it from your place of work. Or if you're not even home, just as I'm connecting with them and you are, um, just say, oops, you know, or plans change, I'm so sorry. You know, just saying sorry goes a long way and they're so forgiving, yeah they are.

Speaker 2: 34:12

Our third question is what do you hope we as caregivers can do for the animal of the world? Animals of the world. How can we be better for the animals?

Speaker 3: 34:22

I would say just treat them as your equals, so not putting them below you and also not putting them above you necessarily we're all the same on this planet, you and also not putting them above you. Necessarily we're all the same on this planet, and just that. I guess the theme of this interview is about respect, respecting all beings, and you know, one thing I want to share too is you can still have your boundaries and your expectations. That just because your animal may want to like lay on your face you can't breathe, it doesn't mean that that's the way it's going to be. You know, if you don't like that, you can say I don't like this and let's do something else. So you know, it's okay to have your boundaries, it's okay to have your expectations, just doing it respectfully and noting all beings, even creatures, even bugs. You know, I'll do a little thing too, like I, you know, and I laugh because it's like I have a phobia of spiders and I'm trying to work through it and it's quite weird to be an animal communicator and have this phobia, but it's something I'm working through.

Speaker 3: 35:18

Anyway, in summer, at the back door where I let my dog out at night, there's a light there and so there's this big spider last several years that likes to. I don't know if it's the same spider. I spider last several years that likes to. I don't know if it's the same spider. I haven't asked if it's the same spider of the family line, but any, I don't know how long they live with asking that. But anyway, there's this big spider right by the back door and I'm always afraid he's just gonna, you know, land on me as I'm coming in or out of that door letting my dog out. For at night, and before I really got into animal communication, I would like sweep the web, I'd spray at it, you know, not so nice, to be honest, and it would always reform by the next night or even a couple hours later. And I'm like, oh God, you know, like always coming out there.

Speaker 3: 35:59

And when I really started getting animal communication, like in fact, like last summer, I was talking to the spider. I'm like, okay, I'm sorry, but I just I don't want you landing on me and you, seeing you close to the door just gives it's, just makes me uncomfortable. Is there something else? Somewhere else you can go, where you can get your food and have a nice web and whatever. And that was that? And then all of a sudden I'm like I didn't see the spider. I'm like where did it go?

Speaker 3: 36:25

And then one day I kind of noticed the lighting. There's a window not too far away from the door and that's like a window that isn't really used. The spider built its web at that window and obviously I almost didn't even notice it and I thought that's perfect, you can have that, I won't bother you, you know there's no chance of you falling on me. And so that's now. We can live in coexistence. We'll see this this time of year. Now that's going to be starting where it's going to be that time of year where the spider is going to be coming out. So I'll be curious to see if we have to have another conversation or if they remember. But it's paying attention to all creatures, not just the ones we, you know, have in our families, you know.

Speaker 2: 37:06

Right, right, mutual respect for all yeah, all creatures. Very good, so that wraps up our three social media questions. So, as we have been talking, is there anything that you may have forgotten or you'd like to share with our listeners? You can take that time now to share.

Speaker 3: 37:23

Just, you know, I think a lot of us just love animals and you know, just share that love with your animals. They just they love it. They just tell me, they love that love between you and you know, your desire to connect with them, to see them as equals to you, with their own thoughts, their own feelings, and working together to have a harmonious life. They just you know, they're invested in that too, they, if you ever doubt that your animals love you, I mean I, I've I've yet to connect with an animal who hasn't loved their person in one way or another, even if they show it in a different way. So yeah, yeah, All right.

Speaker 2: 38:02

Well, thank you, Tammy. I appreciate you taking the time out of your very busy schedule to come on this journey with me. It has been wonderful learning about your journey in to becoming an animal communicator.

Speaker 3: 38:15

Thank you. Thank you so much, Tracy, for having me and enlightening the world with your energy. Thank you.

Speaker 2: 38:22

All right, my friends. So Tammy Friday. She's an animal communicator, helps animal lovers seeking harmony, healing and understanding. So thank you so much for joining us today. If you are interested in having your question featured on the show, reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom and social media. Also, if you're interested, feather Sister Wellness offers a variety of yoga classes, trainings, reiki trainings and Reiki sessions, and that's an online platform as well. So thank you so much everyone for joining us today on this journey. So my name is Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki © transcript Emily Beynon.