WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.789 --> 00:00:06.320 Welcome to the Soul Touched by Dogs Podcast, the show for dog lovers who 00:00:06.340 --> 00:00:12.000 see dogs not as toys or tools, but wise souls worth our respect and care. 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:14.559 I'm an Herrmann, and I'm your host. 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:20.560 I talk to poor some humans, people who do great work for dogs and their people. 00:00:21.099 --> 00:00:23.360 So come and join us for today's conversation. 00:00:25.870 --> 00:00:27.310 Anke: Hello and welcome, Colleen. 00:00:27.330 --> 00:00:29.000 I'm super excited to have you here. 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:30.850 Colleen: Hi Anke. 00:00:30.850 --> 00:00:33.020 Yes, I'm, yeah, I'm also pleased to be here. 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:34.220 Thank you very much for having me. 00:00:35.080 --> 00:00:35.740 Wonderful. 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:40.590 Anke: So before we dive into our favorite topic, um, why don't you 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:42.290 give people the bird's eye overview? 00:00:42.420 --> 00:00:43.680 You know, like, where are you based? 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:47.730 What's, what's the day job if you have one? 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:50.210 Business, you know, what do you do with and for 00:00:50.210 --> 00:00:50.420 Colleen: dogs? 00:00:51.875 --> 00:00:54.375 So, uh, my name's Colleen, but you know that already. 00:00:54.415 --> 00:00:59.635 Um, I live here in the Southwest France, um, but I'm originally South African. 00:00:59.755 --> 00:01:02.815 Um, so I've, I've traveled quite a bit and lived in quite a few 00:01:02.815 --> 00:01:04.365 countries before I've settled here. 00:01:04.965 --> 00:01:07.085 Um, I don't have a day job. 00:01:07.115 --> 00:01:09.065 My animal communication business. 00:01:09.460 --> 00:01:15.310 Is my job, um, only since last year, um, I guess we'll come onto that in a bit, 00:01:15.350 --> 00:01:22.030 but I am able to talk to animals, uh, which is, which is a fantastic privilege 00:01:22.050 --> 00:01:25.500 and, uh, blows me away every day. 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:26.510 Every day. 00:01:26.510 --> 00:01:28.420 I 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.330 Anke: bet. 00:01:30.330 --> 00:01:31.370 I'm curious. 00:01:31.530 --> 00:01:34.620 Well, I mean, I'm curious about a lot of things in that space. 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:40.390 Um, so the first piece I would love you to unpack a little bit is, is how 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:47.680 did you, how did you notice or how did you recognize that this is something 00:01:48.380 --> 00:01:52.530 That you were able to do and that it's something worth leaning into. 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:55.300 And it's kind of riding on the back of like, is this learnable? 00:01:56.630 --> 00:01:59.440 Colleen: It absolutely is learnable. 00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:03.320 Um, so yes, I, I always say that I would love to tell people that I 00:02:03.320 --> 00:02:06.070 spoke to animals, you know, when I was a little girl, but it didn't, 00:02:06.070 --> 00:02:07.560 it didn't happen that way for me. 00:02:07.570 --> 00:02:08.900 It was about four years ago. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.190 Um, I was doing a Reiki, if you're familiar with Reiki, I was doing a Reiki 00:02:14.190 --> 00:02:16.580 distance session with a cat in America. 00:02:17.135 --> 00:02:22.455 And I was kind of deep in the zone and all of a sudden this really 00:02:22.485 --> 00:02:27.705 crystal clear image of some tall bay windows and curtains and a, and 00:02:27.705 --> 00:02:32.665 a, and a, you know, a seat by the window, a cushion popped into my head. 00:02:32.725 --> 00:02:35.445 Um, it gave me such a fright that I remember thinking, oh gosh, maybe I 00:02:35.445 --> 00:02:38.555 was dropping off to sleep, you know, and I was a bit embarrassed and I 00:02:38.555 --> 00:02:40.985 thought, oh gosh, you know, put yourself together, Colin, pull yourself together. 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:46.050 And I don't know what prompted me, but when I was reporting back to the Cat's 00:02:46.050 --> 00:02:50.210 Guardian afterwards, I just mentioned casually, oh, the weirdest thing happened 00:02:50.210 --> 00:02:53.570 while I was mid session, and I described the scene, and she said to me, oh my 00:02:53.570 --> 00:02:55.220 god, Colleen, that's our lounge window. 00:02:56.060 --> 00:02:56.710 And I went, what? 00:02:58.120 --> 00:02:59.450 She said, that's our lounge window. 00:02:59.450 --> 00:03:01.970 So I tried to act as nonchalant as possible, like, 00:03:01.970 --> 00:03:03.590 oh, okay, well, no problem. 00:03:04.110 --> 00:03:08.045 And I got off the call thinking, How on earth did that happen? 00:03:08.065 --> 00:03:11.625 What, you know, and I remember going to Google and typing in, you 00:03:11.625 --> 00:03:14.735 know, can animals talk to people, thinking I'd lost the plot completely. 00:03:15.305 --> 00:03:19.355 And of course, this whole thing came up on interspecies communication, 00:03:20.015 --> 00:03:22.425 and it absolutely is a thing. 00:03:22.455 --> 00:03:27.845 And I remember just throwing myself into websites and books and newsletters, just 00:03:27.845 --> 00:03:29.775 gathering as much information as I could. 00:03:29.775 --> 00:03:33.785 And I eventually did a A course which gave me some framework, 00:03:34.365 --> 00:03:36.975 um, and, and that was it. 00:03:37.035 --> 00:03:40.575 But it is absolutely a learnable skill, much like learning the 00:03:40.575 --> 00:03:41.875 piano is a learnable skill. 00:03:41.875 --> 00:03:45.955 Some people, everybody can learn to play the piano, just some 00:03:45.955 --> 00:03:47.965 people find it easier than others. 00:03:47.985 --> 00:03:49.845 Hmm, that's, 00:03:50.705 --> 00:03:51.485 Anke: that's fascinating. 00:03:51.485 --> 00:03:58.385 So, so do people perceive the messages in different ways, like visual versus 00:03:58.385 --> 00:04:02.735 sound, or like how, you know, how do I know if I'm perceiving something, 00:04:02.735 --> 00:04:04.725 how will I know that this is coming 00:04:04.725 --> 00:04:05.075 Colleen: from the animal? 00:04:05.085 --> 00:04:09.525 Everybody seems to have a primary way of receiving the information, 00:04:09.555 --> 00:04:13.225 and animals also have a primary way of submitting that information. 00:04:13.475 --> 00:04:17.460 So sometimes animals, for me, Most of the time for me personally, 00:04:17.460 --> 00:04:19.780 I get images and moving images. 00:04:19.790 --> 00:04:23.120 So I kind of see things, I see the animal doing something in my head. 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.600 Much like if I said to you, can you imagine a chair on a sunny beach? 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.340 You know, you could picture that in your head. 00:04:29.350 --> 00:04:30.390 It's, it's a bit like that. 00:04:30.390 --> 00:04:31.940 You see something in your mind's eye. 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:37.000 And I know some people are more about smells and sensations. 00:04:37.685 --> 00:04:44.765 Some people are more about emotions, um, but I think for me, it's primarily 00:04:44.785 --> 00:04:48.975 images, but I have had tastes and smells. 00:04:49.635 --> 00:04:51.615 Um, that was a rookie mistake. 00:04:51.615 --> 00:04:54.535 I asked an animal what their food tasted like. 00:04:54.535 --> 00:04:55.655 I don't know what I was thinking. 00:04:57.195 --> 00:04:58.025 I guess I've forgotten. 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:02.230 I guess I forgot that these things come through in various ways, 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:04.310 and I just remember thinking, Oh, Colleen, never do that again! 00:05:04.310 --> 00:05:06.340 I 00:05:06.340 --> 00:05:08.210 Anke: don't care what you ate, I don't want to know! 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.760 Colleen: But yes, so, you know, people, you know, you might receive images, 00:05:15.780 --> 00:05:19.870 um, I, you know, someone else might receive emotions, so it just depends. 00:05:19.870 --> 00:05:22.920 But you can build them, you can also practice and improve them, 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:25.660 so that they're all sort of on an equal footing, if you like. 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:31.620 Anke: It kind of, to me, it's, it's sort of, I don't know, like my mind goes 00:05:31.770 --> 00:05:38.990 towards like, okay, is this like learning to notice and trust your intuition? 00:05:39.420 --> 00:05:41.610 Colleen: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. 00:05:41.630 --> 00:05:45.880 And I, and I've learned so many times you need to trust the absolute 00:05:45.880 --> 00:05:47.305 first thing that pops into your head. 00:05:48.105 --> 00:05:51.545 Because the problem with us having analytical minds, and it's happened to me 00:05:51.545 --> 00:05:55.515 in a communication session with animals, I'll get something, and instead of going, 00:05:55.525 --> 00:05:59.025 right, that's it, write it down, I'll go, oh no, it can't be that, because 00:05:59.025 --> 00:06:02.325 that doesn't make any sense, because it's a dog, and why would a dog do that? 00:06:02.335 --> 00:06:03.295 You know, and then you're analytic. 00:06:05.305 --> 00:06:07.225 So now I just, I just jot it down. 00:06:07.225 --> 00:06:10.375 And sometimes, you know, you jot something down and you think that makes no sense, 00:06:10.375 --> 00:06:13.235 but I'm just going to go with my gut and then you feed it back to the person and 00:06:13.235 --> 00:06:15.425 they go, Oh my God, how did you know that? 00:06:15.425 --> 00:06:20.315 And I go, you know, so you've got to just trust that the animal's giving 00:06:20.315 --> 00:06:22.005 you that information and that's. 00:06:22.785 --> 00:06:23.625 That's how it is. 00:06:23.625 --> 00:06:23.955 And so, 00:06:23.985 --> 00:06:27.375 Anke: so how, you see, I'm totally fascinated by this, and 00:06:27.375 --> 00:06:31.545 so how, how detailed or like what kind of stuff will you receive? 00:06:31.635 --> 00:06:37.195 Will they, you know, what is it that, so you have a session that means like 00:06:37.205 --> 00:06:39.285 you kind of go and you tune into. 00:06:40.005 --> 00:06:41.185 into that animal? 00:06:41.555 --> 00:06:43.545 And then what kind of stuff are they telling you? 00:06:43.545 --> 00:06:48.345 Are you asking things, are they telling you kind of telling you something? 00:06:48.345 --> 00:06:50.255 And, and yeah, so how detailed is that? 00:06:50.705 --> 00:06:50.915 It's, 00:06:50.915 --> 00:06:53.455 Colleen: it's kind of a combination of, of three things. 00:06:53.455 --> 00:06:57.375 So what I tend to do is I tend to first connect with the animal. 00:06:57.985 --> 00:07:01.905 And I say it's kind of like sitting with someone and getting a feel for their, 00:07:01.985 --> 00:07:05.765 for their energy, much like we have a chat, you know, before the podcast stuff. 00:07:05.765 --> 00:07:08.650 But then you get a kind of a sense of What the other person's like. 00:07:09.070 --> 00:07:12.090 So I sit with the animal and that's when I get a feel for their 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:13.600 personality and their character. 00:07:14.510 --> 00:07:18.430 So I normally put that first for people and at least that gives people the idea, 00:07:18.430 --> 00:07:21.930 wow, okay, actually you have connected to my animal because I'm able to 00:07:21.930 --> 00:07:24.430 describe their, their personality traits. 00:07:24.940 --> 00:07:29.190 And then I encourage people to give me questions because it's, it's best 00:07:29.190 --> 00:07:32.710 with a framework because otherwise an animal might spend an hour talking 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.220 to me about what happened to them with their previous owner, which is 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:37.670 going to have nothing to do with the lady that they're with at the moment. 00:07:39.170 --> 00:07:42.760 So I tend to ask the questions that way and I always end off 00:07:43.060 --> 00:07:44.530 with a question to the animal. 00:07:44.940 --> 00:07:46.600 Is there anything you want to tell us? 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:50.180 Because, obviously, I've bombarded them with questions. 00:07:50.300 --> 00:07:54.190 They might have something that they're burning to say, like, please, can 00:07:54.190 --> 00:07:56.100 you stop giving me that dog food? 00:07:56.100 --> 00:07:56.830 It's horrible. 00:08:00.410 --> 00:08:01.520 Or something like it. 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.030 And the questions range from really everyday things, you know, 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:07.530 how do you like to give love? 00:08:07.540 --> 00:08:08.920 How do you like to receive love? 00:08:09.780 --> 00:08:11.530 Why do you bark at the postman? 00:08:11.530 --> 00:08:13.310 You know, those kind of, like, everyday things. 00:08:13.900 --> 00:08:15.360 But they can also be quite deep. 00:08:15.370 --> 00:08:19.820 So I work with a lot of animals that are about to transition, and we discuss 00:08:20.320 --> 00:08:23.590 when they feel ready, what signs they'll give when they're ready to 00:08:23.590 --> 00:08:26.770 go, if they want help transitioning. 00:08:27.260 --> 00:08:30.960 Um, so they can be quite, they can be quite deep. 00:08:31.140 --> 00:08:34.260 Um, and then with animals and spirits, because I can also talk to 00:08:34.260 --> 00:08:37.780 animals and spirit, that's quite, sometimes those messages are quite. 00:08:38.100 --> 00:08:42.840 sort of profound because they're kind of giving messages about why they 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.970 came into people's lives and you know what they taught people or what they 00:08:46.970 --> 00:08:49.830 felt they learned from people and things like that so it's it's kind 00:08:49.830 --> 00:08:52.690 of a big combination of everything. 00:08:54.375 --> 00:08:58.525 Anke: So what is it that people come to you for? 00:08:58.535 --> 00:09:02.035 Like, you know, so there's people, okay, if the dog's kind of sick, 00:09:02.085 --> 00:09:06.525 you'll go to a vet and if there's some behavioral issue, go to a trainer, 00:09:06.785 --> 00:09:10.255 you know, like what does some, what do people in general or, you know, is 00:09:10.395 --> 00:09:13.395 there a pattern or, you know, what's typical, what's a typical thing, what 00:09:13.395 --> 00:09:14.805 are the typical things that people come 00:09:14.805 --> 00:09:16.075 Colleen: to you for? 00:09:16.215 --> 00:09:17.665 I would love to do an analysis. 00:09:17.665 --> 00:09:21.325 Actually, I thought of doing one for the end of the year for my business 00:09:21.325 --> 00:09:24.645 over the year to see what, you know, what types of things came up the most. 00:09:24.675 --> 00:09:28.785 Um, but I haven't done that yet, alas, but the type of things, you know, 00:09:29.135 --> 00:09:33.435 generally people just want to know their animals on a deeper level, because when 00:09:33.435 --> 00:09:37.675 you know your animal on a deeper level, you're able to relate to it better. 00:09:37.675 --> 00:09:40.925 You know what it wants, what makes it happy, etc., etc. 00:09:41.465 --> 00:09:41.905 Um, 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.330 I think it's important for people to feel that it's a bit like going 00:09:48.330 --> 00:09:49.450 into a relationship, isn't it? 00:09:49.450 --> 00:09:52.660 If you don't understand that other person, it's difficult to have that 00:09:52.660 --> 00:09:55.500 relationship and learn to love each other when you don't know each other 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:57.660 on that, on that sort of deep level. 00:09:57.670 --> 00:10:01.140 So, yeah, I forgot where I was going with that. 00:10:01.140 --> 00:10:04.740 I 00:10:04.740 --> 00:10:09.800 Anke: might have to have you back. 00:10:09.800 --> 00:10:10.180 Yeah. 00:10:10.390 --> 00:10:13.250 I think the other thing I'm sort of curious about, like 00:10:13.330 --> 00:10:15.340 in your own journey, right? 00:10:15.340 --> 00:10:19.210 So you had this kind of situation, like in the Reiki session. 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:26.320 And so how was that for you to start trusting, like, and also like, how 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.870 do you know that what first popped to mind that that really came from 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:32.710 the animal, like how, you know, obviously if there's an owner who 00:10:32.710 --> 00:10:37.100 says, Oh my God, this is our living room window, like then you have that. 00:10:37.595 --> 00:10:42.765 you know, immediate confirmation, which obviously would be like a confidence 00:10:42.815 --> 00:10:46.525 boost where you're like, oh, okay, so this, I'm not making this up, right? 00:10:46.555 --> 00:10:48.175 So there is actually something there. 00:10:48.485 --> 00:10:48.755 Yeah. 00:10:49.495 --> 00:10:54.065 Did you, was there anything else other than like positive feedback from people 00:10:54.065 --> 00:10:56.725 who go, oh my God, yeah, that makes, it doesn't make sense to you, but it 00:10:56.735 --> 00:11:00.885 makes sense to me where you go, where you then over time learn to trust 00:11:01.075 --> 00:11:02.475 those things, or was there something 00:11:02.495 --> 00:11:03.325 Colleen: else at play? 00:11:03.545 --> 00:11:09.425 No, it was really learning to trust and, you know, It was so hard. 00:11:09.625 --> 00:11:10.545 I cannot even say. 00:11:10.545 --> 00:11:12.575 I did loads of case studies. 00:11:12.615 --> 00:11:15.895 I bombarded friends and family for months on end. 00:11:15.895 --> 00:11:19.575 Anyone who had an animal before I went professional because I was just like, 00:11:19.575 --> 00:11:24.365 you know, I can't, I can't charge money for this if I have any doubt that I'm 00:11:24.365 --> 00:11:25.915 not actually speaking to the animal. 00:11:25.945 --> 00:11:30.365 And time and time again, Because you're able to, you know, because you, I'm able 00:11:30.365 --> 00:11:33.295 to describe the animal's personality for starters, which, which didn't 00:11:33.295 --> 00:11:35.765 help with friends and family, because obviously I know the animals, right? 00:11:36.965 --> 00:11:39.735 But when a complete stranger comes to me and I go, Oh, you know, your animal's 00:11:39.735 --> 00:11:42.995 really cheeky and he likes to, I don't know, nip your ankles at night when you're 00:11:42.995 --> 00:11:44.875 trying to watch TV or something like it. 00:11:44.925 --> 00:11:47.365 And you know, sometimes it can be quite specific. 00:11:48.065 --> 00:11:53.715 Um, and then it's just learning because quite a few times. 00:11:54.010 --> 00:11:59.090 And in fact, it happened to me just this weekend when I asked an animal something 00:11:59.090 --> 00:12:04.490 and I got something in my head, but again, I was like, no, that that's too obvious. 00:12:04.510 --> 00:12:06.370 That's no, no, that's too obvious. 00:12:06.370 --> 00:12:07.580 That's something I'm making up. 00:12:07.630 --> 00:12:09.630 And I didn't, and I didn't say it. 00:12:10.400 --> 00:12:14.960 And, but what I do now is when I give the information to the people, I say. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.920 This is what I got, but I dismissed it because I felt it was too obvious, 00:12:20.010 --> 00:12:23.750 so at least that way then, if it is something that resonates with them, and 00:12:23.750 --> 00:12:25.050 in this case it was, thank goodness. 00:12:25.590 --> 00:12:32.120 Um, but I think it's just It's, it's experience and knowing that time and time 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:36.380 again, being brave enough to go, oof, okay, I've got a picture of a big, large 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:39.600 globe of golden light around the animal. 00:12:39.610 --> 00:12:42.220 I have no idea what that means, but let's just put it in the document 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:43.620 and see what it, what it is. 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:47.410 And then the owner says, oh my gosh, every night when I go to 00:12:47.410 --> 00:12:52.250 bed, I ask for a golden sphere of protection around me and my animals. 00:12:52.270 --> 00:12:54.230 And I was just like, oh my God. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.650 And it's just, it's just learning to trust. 00:12:57.650 --> 00:12:58.670 It is, it is hard. 00:12:58.670 --> 00:13:02.040 And every time I send off a document, if I'm just doing an email reading 00:13:02.040 --> 00:13:07.610 for someone and I send off the document, you just like, send. 00:13:08.570 --> 00:13:10.490 Trust, trust you're on your path. 00:13:10.550 --> 00:13:11.630 Trust you're on your path. 00:13:13.060 --> 00:13:13.400 Yeah. 00:13:13.450 --> 00:13:13.840 Yeah. 00:13:14.310 --> 00:13:14.520 So 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:17.230 Anke: people then like, they can basically book a session with you. 00:13:17.510 --> 00:13:20.440 I mean, it can be remotely obviously, but you know, like 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:21.780 they don't need to be there. 00:13:21.780 --> 00:13:25.165 So it's not like I have to kind of, you point my webcam to my 00:13:25.265 --> 00:13:28.295 dog, so I can send you a photo. 00:13:29.015 --> 00:13:29.585 Colleen: That's right. 00:13:29.585 --> 00:13:29.855 Yeah. 00:13:30.025 --> 00:13:32.535 Some people do work sort of live. 00:13:32.645 --> 00:13:36.215 Um, but I've said that doesn't, for me, that's not always a reliable 00:13:36.215 --> 00:13:41.385 use of, of both of our time, because sometimes animals take a long time 00:13:41.715 --> 00:13:44.435 and I could be sitting there for 10, 15 minutes waiting for response. 00:13:44.435 --> 00:13:46.795 And of course, if you sitting there twiddling your fingers, you know, 00:13:47.225 --> 00:13:50.585 so yes, I work early by photo, but that's also great because it means. 00:13:51.085 --> 00:13:53.005 You know, it could work with people all over the world. 00:13:53.005 --> 00:13:54.345 I just need a recent photo. 00:13:54.895 --> 00:13:59.027 Otherwise, I find I can read kind of old energy, if you know what I mean. 00:13:59.027 --> 00:14:00.535 So it needs to be a recent photo. 00:14:01.135 --> 00:14:02.995 And I just, I use that as the basis. 00:14:02.995 --> 00:14:06.235 And then, you know, I, I, I sort of, I have all the questions. 00:14:06.235 --> 00:14:08.555 I have the picture of the animal up on the screen, all the questions, 00:14:08.555 --> 00:14:13.000 and I literally ask, I sort of direct the questions to the animal, and 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.140 then I just type whatever I get back. 00:14:15.520 --> 00:14:18.930 You know, the animals show me, I don't know what they're doing now, 00:14:18.930 --> 00:14:22.350 they're running in some long grass or something, and there's something 00:14:22.350 --> 00:14:24.740 yellow that they're chasing, or I don't know, you know, whatever. 00:14:25.160 --> 00:14:28.960 And then I type up the document and I send that, and then people have the option, 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:33.700 either they can just have the document, Or we can have a video conference where 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:37.780 we go through the document together, which is more fun because they get 00:14:37.830 --> 00:14:41.570 to ask questions like, that's right. 00:14:41.590 --> 00:14:41.890 Yeah. 00:14:41.890 --> 00:14:42.150 Yeah. 00:14:42.150 --> 00:14:43.320 Did they also show you that? 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:46.540 And, you know, so, uh, yeah, that's great. 00:14:46.740 --> 00:14:47.400 Anke: Amazing. 00:14:47.410 --> 00:14:50.340 It's, it's, I find it fascinating because at the end of the day, like 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:52.720 it does make sense, like even for. 00:14:53.760 --> 00:14:57.460 you know, even for like an engineer's mind, you know, on an energetic 00:14:57.460 --> 00:14:58.780 level, it makes perfect sense. 00:14:58.850 --> 00:15:02.830 Like it's not, it's not kind of hard to trace, to sort of follow, even 00:15:02.830 --> 00:15:09.600 though we can't always trace back every individual message, you know, in 00:15:09.670 --> 00:15:11.280 that, but that, that we can predict. 00:15:12.090 --> 00:15:14.650 With them energetically, like there's no doubt about that, right? 00:15:14.650 --> 00:15:15.110 Absolutely. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.230 So it's not hard to, hard to lean into. 00:15:18.330 --> 00:15:18.740 Yeah. 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:23.020 So where can people go and, you know, book a session, find out 00:15:23.020 --> 00:15:24.670 more about you, connect with you? 00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:26.300 Colleen: Well, it's very exciting. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:27.430 Just on the 1st of December. 00:15:27.810 --> 00:15:28.180 I know. 00:15:29.490 --> 00:15:31.020 I launched my new website. 00:15:31.020 --> 00:15:34.035 So it's www. 00:15:35.515 --> 00:15:35.905 ColleenKersey. 00:15:36.135 --> 00:15:36.685 com. 00:15:37.565 --> 00:15:41.565 Um, I did have a business name beforehand and then I've, I've done like a recent, 00:15:41.635 --> 00:15:46.435 a whole kind of rebrand and nice new shiny website, nice new shiny logo, 00:15:46.895 --> 00:15:48.045 but all the information is there. 00:15:48.045 --> 00:15:50.425 There's different types of sessions that people can book 00:15:50.425 --> 00:15:51.385 depending on what they want. 00:15:51.385 --> 00:15:56.345 So general or transition or rainbow bridge or even bespoke. 00:15:56.355 --> 00:16:00.985 So I can do kind of vet visits and international moves and, you know. 00:16:01.435 --> 00:16:04.205 People bringing babies home and kind of talking to animals 00:16:04.205 --> 00:16:05.255 to prepare them for that. 00:16:05.935 --> 00:16:09.035 Um, and you get discounts if you book more than one session. 00:16:10.175 --> 00:16:11.035 Because that's a good thing. 00:16:11.335 --> 00:16:12.725 If you have multiple dogs. 00:16:12.725 --> 00:16:14.610 I 00:16:14.610 --> 00:16:17.905 Anke: mean, that's actually, that's another thing. 00:16:17.905 --> 00:16:20.518 Like, I think I need to have you back because like, there's 00:16:20.518 --> 00:16:22.165 so much more to talk about. 00:16:22.165 --> 00:16:25.685 Would somebody usually have one session or do people come and say, I 00:16:25.685 --> 00:16:28.915 have one every month for the same dog because I have different questions 00:16:28.915 --> 00:16:30.715 or what's, what's typical there? 00:16:30.865 --> 00:16:34.195 Colleen: There's, there's a few people who, who come regularly. 00:16:34.525 --> 00:16:38.495 Um, there's one lady who has quite a few rescue dogs. 00:16:38.865 --> 00:16:44.045 So she, she has regular sessions so we can see how the dogs are adjusting to their 00:16:44.045 --> 00:16:45.865 life and, you know, life around them. 00:16:46.515 --> 00:16:50.795 Mostly also when people have elderly dogs, when they're starting to notice 00:16:50.955 --> 00:16:56.060 that The dogs are kind of really struggling, then we have regular sessions 00:16:56.060 --> 00:16:59.530 just to check in and make sure that the animal's comfortable and it has 00:16:59.530 --> 00:17:03.520 everything it needs before the inevitable. 00:17:03.530 --> 00:17:06.130 So it really depends on the the circumstances. 00:17:06.850 --> 00:17:09.180 And also if there's, if there's somebody like, I have had a couple 00:17:09.180 --> 00:17:12.760 of cases where they've brought like a new dog in, you know, then they'll 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:14.300 check in with the original dog. 00:17:14.750 --> 00:17:16.740 How do you feel about this new dog coming in? 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:19.330 And then we'll check with the new dog and how things going. 00:17:20.370 --> 00:17:21.950 So yeah, it just depends on the household. 00:17:21.950 --> 00:17:22.200 Yeah. 00:17:23.070 --> 00:17:23.650 Anke: I love that. 00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:27.410 So we, yeah, the website, I can highly recommend it because I 00:17:27.410 --> 00:17:28.960 saw your post the other day. 00:17:30.455 --> 00:17:31.035 Check it out. 00:17:31.035 --> 00:17:32.025 And it is wonderful. 00:17:32.395 --> 00:17:35.485 So, and I, you know, if you're listening, it's going to be in the show notes. 00:17:35.535 --> 00:17:38.115 If you're watching, it's going to be right below this video or above. 00:17:38.205 --> 00:17:38.585 I don't know. 00:17:38.745 --> 00:17:42.245 I can't remember, but it's going to be right next to this video. 00:17:42.245 --> 00:17:43.165 So you won't have fun. 00:17:43.255 --> 00:17:44.395 You won't have a hard time. 00:17:44.765 --> 00:17:49.125 You don't have to go, you know, very far energetically to connect with me. 00:17:49.125 --> 00:17:50.365 So so much. 00:17:50.365 --> 00:17:51.605 This was awesome. 00:17:51.685 --> 00:17:52.685 And, um. 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:58.300 Yeah, I hope a lot of people check you out and get in touch because the 00:17:58.300 --> 00:18:02.180 more we can understand our animals, like the better we are as people and 00:18:02.180 --> 00:18:06.110 the better we can have, the better the life that we can have with them. 00:18:07.130 --> 00:18:08.170 Colleen: Yes, I agree. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:08.830 I agree. 00:18:08.930 --> 00:18:09.950 Thank you very much for that. 00:18:09.950 --> 00:18:10.380 Thank you. 00:18:11.080 --> 00:18:11.470 Thank you. 00:18:12.274 --> 00:18:13.504 Thanks so much for listening. 00:18:14.024 --> 00:18:18.324 If you enjoyed the episode, don't forget to subscribe, and leave a review so 00:18:18.424 --> 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