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WORK TITLE: Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection
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EDUCATION:Attended the Center for Integrative Therapy.
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Writer and energetic healer. Energy healer, 2001—; Certified Interface Therapist; ordained Inter-Faith Minister; Unity North Atlanta, GA, founder, 2004—; Sundance Healing Center, Roswell, GA, founder, 2007—. Member of editorial board of Conscious Life Journal. Has appeared on television and radio shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show. Previously, worked for a national recruiting firm.
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Tammy Billups is an energetic healer and writer. She has been working as a healer since 2001 and is best known for her work with animals. Billups is the founder of Unity North Atlanta and Sundance Healing Center. She has appeared on television and radio programs, including the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Beyond the Fur
In 2016, Billups released Beyond the Fur: Discover the Hidden Keys to Understanding Your Animals’ Behaviors and Physical Issues. In this volume, she tells readers how to help a pet heal and explains how its issues are connected with those of its owner.
In an interview with Stephen Cavitt, contributor to the Sundance Healing Center website, Billips discussed the book’s intended purpose. She stated: “That’s really what the book is all about—the ability to recognize the symbolic, the physical, and the literal messages so you’ll have an easier go of things. The two teenage companions I have now were at the vet a lot in their first few years because I wasn’t in tune with the messages from their behaviors and ailments. I was treating the symptoms versus healing our emotional wounds.” Billips told Cavitt: “People can and will absorb their pets energy too. Unconsciously or consciously, when we want someone we love to feel better, we can agree to take their pain and wounds. But, I believe that by simply raising our vibration, or awareness, and actively working on healing my issues, that they will benefit as well.” Billups added: “The book will help people to develop a new level of awareness and in turn, a deeper relationship with their animal companions by learning how to interpret the messages around all of the four levels of mirroring and the emotional wounds that the animals carry as well and how it might be showing up in their lives through examples and client stories, and {explains} how every animal chose them … and why … and more importantly, how people can better help their animals heal their emotional wounds.”
Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions
Billups again shares lessons she has learned through her energy healing work with humans and animals in the 2018 volume, Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection. She also discusses experiences she has had with her own animals.
A Publishers Weekly reviewer asserted: “Written in uncomplicated … language, Billups’s fun book will be appreciated by pet owners with a spiritual bent.” Olivia Balanga-Santos, critic on the Mindful Word website, commented: “Billups provides us with the tools to better understand, connect and care for our animal companions and ourselves.”
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PERIODICALS
Plus Company Updates, June 23, 2017, “The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals,” article about author.
PRWeb Newswire, May 21, 2013, , “Animal Intuitive Transforms the Lives of Pets and their People,” article about author.
Publishers Weekly, February 26, 2018, review of Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection, p. 83.
ONLINE
Mindful Word, https://www.themindfulword.org/ (August 13, 2018), Olivia Balanga-Santos, review of Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions.
Sundance Healing Center website, http://www.sundancehealing.com/ (September 13, 2018), author profile; (September 13, 2018), Stephen Cavitt, author interview.
About Tammy
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At the turn of the millennium, Tammy was the epitome of American success — a successful top biller and Sr. Partner for a nationwide recruiting firm. Then her life dramatically shifted due to several losses near and dear to her heart occurring within several months time. Intuitive gifts and childhood memories she had long repressed resurfaced which set in motion a deep inner healing journey and new path in life.
In the midst of it all emerged Tammy’s now widely celebrated energetic healing abilities and gifts. After receiving her first energy therapy healing session, which produced immediate results, Tammy spontaneously realized her life’s purpose.
Through this gentle healing method she saw remarkable results with her body, emotions and behavior. Gone were physical manifestations like a heart defect, asthma, allergies, gall stones, dysplasia, chronic sinus infections and endometriosis, to name a few. Daily medications were no longer needed as she embraced an overall healthier lifestyle.
Tammy’s mastery of healing through the subtle energy field was propelled forward by her natural gifts for experiencing energy, and her personal healing journey. She began working with individuals and animals in 2001; utilizing her highly intuitive healing gifts that were honed through training at The Center for Integrative Therapy.
She is honored to be a facilitator of this incredible holistic healing modality, knowing it can be life changing for all souls… both two and four legged.
About Tammy’s new book: Animals are not only loving and loyal companions; they are teachers and mirrors for us to learn how to heal, evolve and love at deeper levels. Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions is an enlightening book that will help you recognize, interpret, and understand your pets’ deeper messages just waiting to be revealed. Tammy is excited to share her fascinating discoveries about the deeper soul connection between people and their animal companions.
Credentials
Tammy is a Certified Interface Therapist, Author, Speaker, and pioneer on the emotional and energetic connection between animals and people. She founded the animal ministry at Unity North Atlanta (spiritual community) in 2004 and currently facilitates its monthly Praying Paws Animal Service. She also serves on the editorial board of the Conscious Life Journal, is a contributing writer, and donates weekly sessions to animal rescue centers. Tammy has had numerous appearances on TV, radio, and podcasts –including CNN’s The Daily Share, Primetime Live ABC, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is also an ordained Inter-Faith Minister.
Tammy makes her home in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb with her two cats, Bodhi and Rumi, rescued from Good Mews.
QUOTED: "That’s really what the book is all about—the ability to recognize the symbolic, the physical, and the literal messages so you’ll have an easier go of things. The two teenage companions I have now were at the vet a lot in their first few years because I wasn’t in tune with the messages from their behaviors and ailments. I was treating the symptoms versus healing our emotional wounds."
"People can and will absorb their pets energy too. Unconsciously or consciously, when we want someone we love to feel better, we can agree to take their pain and wounds. But, I believe that by simply raising our vibration, or awareness, and actively working on healing my issues, that they will benefit as well."
"The book will help people to develop a new level of awareness and in turn, a deeper relationship with their animal companions by learning how to interpret the messages around all of the four levels of mirroring and the emotional wounds that the animals carry as well and how it might be showing up in their lives through examples and client stories, and {explains} how every animal chose them ... and why ... and more importantly, how people can better help their animals heal their emotional wounds."
Beyond the Fur book campaign/Interview with Tammy Billups, by Stephen Cavitt
It’s not often that Oprah Winfrey and I cross paths, but when I sat down to interview Bioenergetic Therapist Tammy Billups, I learned that Oprah had beat me to it a few years back. I didn’t mind, though, because Oprah and I are cool like that, and because I’ve got the scoop on Beyond the Fur, Tammy’s new crowd-funded book project that helps animals and their humans heal together.
We met in her home office and discussed how our pets show us what is out of balance in our lives and what we can do to help each other. I’ve abridged our interview and put my questions and comments in italics, while Tammy’s responses are in ordinary font.
In your fundraising video, you talk about assisting the animals help to the people, as opposed to just doing human healing or just healing for the animals. You’re doing both through working with the animals?
Early in my certification process, I only worked on people. In my 30’s, before I had done any of my inner healing, I’d only let animals into my heart. Many people do that. They let animals get close to them because they are ‘safer to love’ than people. Even before I ‘woke up’ to my abilities to work with energy for healing, there were too many coincidences with my pets for me not to make note of it. If I got a U.T.I., my cat got a U.T.I. When I developed asthma, my other pet got asthma. And I found myself thinking, ‘What are the odds that these are not connected?’ Frequently when I’m speaking with a client about their animal, and I’m giving them feedback about what their animal is feeling physically, they will share that they also have a physical ailment in the same area of their body. That isn’t always the case, but physical mirroring of issues is real. Our energy is so enmeshed with the four leggeds in our lives. When I’m speaking with a client about their animal I will educate them about the mirroring because their energies are so enmeshed. Each session with an animal has the potential to make a shift within the person as well.
What percentage of the time does the animal have physical problems that aren’t what the owner has?
I see the physical mirroring of issues maybe a quarter of the time. There are four ways they can mirror us. Frequently the physical issue in the animal is mirroring something symbolic for their person. Is the dog limping? Then, where is the person out of balance? The animals will almost always mirror their persons’ unhealed emotional wound. Regardless of how briefly they’re in your life—whether it’s an animal you’re watching for the weekend or a long-term companion… there’s going to be mirroring an emotional wound. So how it shows up for you to see the message, or gift, from your animal companion is going to be different with each situation.
How is it changing how you live with your own animals since you started discovering all this?
We’re all much healthier and happier because I’m tuned into their frequency now. That’s really what the book is all about—the ability to recognize the symbolic, the physical, and the literal messages so you’ll have an easier go of things. The two teenage companions I have now were at the vet a lot in their first few years because I wasn’t in tune with the messages from their behaviors and ailments. I was treating the symptoms versus healing our emotional wounds. Sundance {one of Tammy’s two cats} hasn’t been to the vet in eight years.
For example, if one’s developed a new habit of hiding in the closet, I start looking at where I do not want to be seen, or what am I hiding? As soon as I realize what’s going on within me, my cat will no longer go into the closet. One of Sundance’s favorite messages is to show me when I am repressing anger. When I have a lot of anger brewing and I’m not dealing with it, she’ll get right in front of my computer and meow until I get annoyed and ask, “What do you want, I’m on the phone!” As soon as I realize how easily she triggered anger within me, then I have received her message and am able to do some healthy anger releasing techniques. Her behavior simply stops as soon as I receive her message.
Are you also acting out their stuff? Or in y’all’s relationship has it only gone one way?
Oh, no, I’m sure it’s both ways…because we’re both trying to heal the same core wounds. My intention is always that we are healing together. People can and will absorb their pets energy too. Unconsciously or consciously, when we want someone we love to feel better, we can agree to take their pain and wounds. But, I believe that by simply raising our vibration, or awareness, and actively working on healing my issues, that they will benefit as well. I also do sessions on them to help them feel better so they can heal and clear their energetic patterns of protection. I remember the last time my cat Mai Tai had a bad U.T.I… probably 10-11 yrs ago, he had a temp of 104 degrees. Iit was pretty serious, and stones showed up on the x-rays at the Vet’s office. So, I did several Bioenergetic sessions on him during those critical hours. During one of the sessions, I saw a visual of a jack hammer breaking apart stones. When I took him back to the vet the x-ray showed the stones were gone, and the she was scratching her head not sure if there was something wrong with the x-ray machine. While he was ill, my bladder was also very inflamed, but it stopped as soon as he began feeling better.
Walk me through what’s in the book.
The book will help people to develop a new level of awareness and in turn, a deeper relationship with their animal companions by learning how to interpret the messages around all of the four levels of mirroring and the emotional wounds that the animals carry as well and how it might be showing up in their lives through examples and client stories, and {explains} how every animal chose them…and why..and more importantly, how people can better help their animals heal their emotional wounds. Every animal that touches someone are divine matches regardless of how brief they are in your life. Even if they end up getting re-homed for some reason, those meetings are designed to happen for growth and healing for all. I delve into those five core wounds and how they might be showing up for the animals. A lot of animals have, for instance, an emotional wound from abandonment.
Sure; rescues.
Yes. Rescues. So how abandonment shows up in animals is similar with people—there’s usually an oral fixation. With people, they might over-drink, over- eat, or smoke, or talk a lot. With animals, they’ll probably be chewers, overeat; or over-lick if they haven’t healed their abandonment issues. And of course like every unhealed emotional wound, it will continue happening (abandonment) until they heal it. And the universe will always orchestrate the right and perfect animals connecting with the right and perfect people for the advancement of their souls healing journey. So lots of client stories and examples will be woven throughout the book for people to be able to better connect to an experience they might have had with one of their pets. There’s a story from one client who’d tried absolutely everything to help her cat to stop urinating outside of the box. She got my name and number from an article she’d seen written about my work and didn’t know what to expect. She was very upset because she felt this was the last thing she would try for him and if it didn’t work, she was going to either re-home him or take him to the county shelter…which she didn’t want to do but felt she was left with no choice. “I don’t want to give up my cat. He’s peeing everywhere. We’ve tried Prozac. He doesn’t have a U.T.I. We’ve changed his food; we’ve done everything the Vet suggested with no change.” So she had a lot of anger about his behavior, which is very normal, and in turn people will try to control or scold the animal– which never works to stop urination issues. So, I asked her if there was an area of her life she was experiencing unresolved or unexpressed anger. If an animal is triggering anger in their person, there’s a good chance they’re helping them to see they’re repressing anger, and the animal is being the scape goat, per se, to help them release it.It indeed turned out she had a lot of unexpressed anger at work, and every day she drove home angry from her job, and she walks in and the cat’s peed on something and out the anger comes. I suggested some healthy techniques to move out her anger after she was amazed that I knew she had repressed anger issues, and the cat never peed outside the box again. Ever. She then understood that he was helping her to release her emotions and immediately had compassion and gratitude for him. Animals’ actions and behaviors always hold gifts for their people. And once they receive them, voila! both will feel better.
You mentioned core wounds. What are the five core wounds?
There’s abandonment, betrayal, invasiveness, unaware/denial of real self (those are usually more senior souls actually), and terror.
How many sessions do you find you work with an animal on average?
It depends on if it’s a physical issue or behavioral. I’ve had many cases of a behavioral issue that is gone with one session, but it is typically 2-4. If there is a physical issue it could be from 1-8 sessions. Ideally people will start their animal on sessions before the onset of a physical manifestation to help them clear what they absorb from their environment before it manifests physically. In this instance, a couple of times a year will work when they are younger…and then as they get older, once a quarter typically is sufficient. Just like a good diet, receiving Bioenergetic sessions will add quality time to their life and help ward off physical and behavioral issues.
So, dogs, cats. What’s the difference? What do you notice about the difference of them as energy beings and who they’re drawn to and who’s drawn to them?
So of course we’re going to call in similar behaviors as we have. Cats are really independent. Dogs do tend to gravitate more toward somebody who really needs to be loved and desires more companionship.
So the more independent versus the dependent?
Dogs tend to be more dependent on your love and being with you to teach you how to love unconditionally because they are experts at it.
But energetically there’s no difference between dogs and cats. When I hook up to one or the other, I see similar energetic patterns… what they’re releasing and allowing in, etc.
I would like to hear about the range of animals that you’ve worked with…
I’ve done, of course, horses and dogs and cats, but I remember working with a snake with a mouth infection, and at a progressive school which teaches the kids how to be kind and care for animals as part of their everyday schooling, they asked me to work on a goat and a sheep that had been attacked by wild dogs, so they asked me come over and talk to the kids who were feeling badly for the animals, and what to do with their emotions…and provide healing for all.
Any other unexpected ones?
While leading the Animal Healing Ministry at the Unity North Church in Marietta GA, I donated healing sessions to the congregants’ animals. So, if I include those I’ve also done birds, fish and rabbits. And if I see an injured animal in the wild, I’ll connect and ask permission to help it heal. So there’s also been deer, squirrel, hummingbirds, and a chickadee.
Why are you so drawn to the animals?
Animals have been incredible teachers and healers for me and were the first souls to give me unconditional love. I want to give back to them for all that they have done for me. I experienced a lot of invasiveness as a child. My first memory of connecting with an animal was when I was very young. I remember locking eyes with cats that were being severely abused, as I was, and we didn’t only commiserate, but I felt them. I felt them. So I believe its part of my path that I’m wired to do, to be a healer for both animals and their people. I get very excited about the connection between the two. When people get the deeper gifts and receive the aha moments…. then their animals won’t suffer as much. Even the daily messages we can receive through animals in nature is a tremendous tool for an easier life. That’s one of the ways the universe gets messages to us, and it’s free. Gluten free, sugar free! So, establishing and opening up a deeper relationship with all animals is what jazzes me. That’s my niche. I love serving both people and animals. I’ve known for many, many years this book was to be written. It’s about the animal-person relationship and how they can understand each other better, and grow and heal together. It can be life changing for them.
Tell me about the crowd funding project.
I was unaware of crowd funding until not too long ago but once I realized it’s a great option to use to get this work out there more quickly to help more animals I decided to put together a campaign. Everything fell together so easily and the team has all donated their time on faith it will be funded. It’s going through June 12th and I’m still amazed with every donation how positively everyone is responding to getting Beyond the Fur in print. I am and will be forever grateful for the support and generosity.
And the funding goal is…
The minimum dollar goal is $18,000, which covers all of the editing, the publishing, the printing of the books, the PR, the marketing, the advertising, and the video. My mission is to reach as many animals and people that are seeking healing from the message. The wonderful thing about crowd funding is that you get something in return for your donation. There are 12 levels of gifts. And I promise it’ll be a great quality book. As with my CD, a percentage of the profits of every book sold will go to help orphan animals. There are levels of giving in which the gift is to get your favorite rescue organization’s info in the book, or even donated sessions to them. Everyone that donates will get their name in the book on the “Dream Maker” page.
You’re on Pubslush, right? Is there any backslash address thing we should add in?
Yes, please go to www.publush.com/project/6447 Or, you can go to my website, tammybillups.com, and there’s a link under the video which takes you to my campaign page.
Editorial note: Tammy’s Pubslush campaign has raised about $5000, with 16 days left to reach her full goal of changing lives one paw at a time. Head over to www.pubslush.com/project/6447
to check it out and contribute.
About Tammy
Tammy Billups is a Certified Bioenergetics Therapist, Author, Speaker, and Group Facilitator. She has facilitated thousands of individual sessions throughout the U.S. on both people and animals. She walks her talk and overcame much physical and emotional pain via Bioenergetic healing. This, in turn, gave birth to her passion to help others heal their wounds and enrich their lives. www.tammybillups.com, info@tammybillups.com, (770) 552-9877.
About Stephen
Stephen Cavitt practices and teaches the healing arts in Chattanooga and the Southeast. His workshops blend a love for the natural world the power of rhythm and multicultural healing arts. Stephen has gained recognition around north Georgia for his drum making workshops and handmade rhythm instruments. He works individually with clients and families who are transforming their minds, bodies, and spirits. Follow him on Facebook at www.fb.com/stephencavitt. www.stephencavitt.com, stephen@stephencavitt.com, (678) 526-4799.
QUOTED: "Written in uncomplicated ... language, Billups's fun book will be appreciated by pet owners with a spiritual bent."
Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection
Publishers Weekly. 265.9 (Feb. 26, 2018): p83.
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Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection
Tammy Billups. InnerTraditions, $14.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-59143-305-7
Billups, founder of the Sundance Healing Center, presents practical advice on how to develop a deeper connection with pets in this cheerful book. She starts by sharing stories of her experiences working as a therapist to heal pets' emotional trauma. One story is of Labrador retriever mix Buster: "[with] consistent patience, compassion, and love, he softened, healed, and began to trust again." Billups stresses that pets will mirror their owners' emotions and behavior, so when owners are feeling sad or tense, their pets will too. Billups's advice is sensible and includes practices such as giving pets more independence (even when the owner is at home) and allowing them space to grieve a loved one. As for humans, she recommends "placing your hands on your heart and imagining divine love" on a daily basis. Because pets offer unconditional love, owners can feel a sense of the divine and God through them, Billups contends. Written in uncomplicated, inspiring language, Billups's fun book will be appreciated by pet owners with a spiritual bent. (Apr.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection." Publishers Weekly, 26 Feb. 2018, p. 83. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A530637494/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=038fbfb5. Accessed 13 Aug. 2018.
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Animal Intuitive Transforms the Lives of Pets and their People
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Long Island may have its Medium and there are many dog and horse whisperers, but now there's someone new on the scene: Animal Intuitive Tammy Billups is using her unique gift to aid animals and their human companions. Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the news program Primetime Live ABC for her willingness to step in and help others, Tammy has a rare gift that allows her to "tune in" and help animals release and heal emotional wounds that cause negative behavior and health issues.
Tammy Billups received her unexpected 'gift' through the trauma of losing her mother and three pets in the same year. Suddenly, she was able to feel the emotions and physical ailments of animals by merely tuning into them. Since 2001, Billups has worked with thousands of animals and their people nationwide to help them resolve issues that mainstream practitioners were unable to through medications and surgeries.
One client who benefited from Tammy's intuitive gift is Cindy Kicklighter. "Last summer, I adopted a kitten from a local shelter. The first night I brought him home, he urinated and defecated on my bed. This occurred about every other night for several weeks. The vet assured me he was healthy and thought it was behavioral. The last straw was when he jumped up on the bed and peed directly on me. I was upset and planned on taking him back to the shelter. Then, I read an article about Tammy and her work," said Cindy, "I had never heard of this type of healing beforeabut I was willing to try one last thing. With only one session, Tammy connected with my cat and the behavior stopped."
Stories like Cindy's are plentiful, and while many of Tammy's clients are familiar with healing through the energy fielda[bar]. most are new to this alternative healing modality-- but found themselves open to anything that would help their animal attain relief and healing.
Animals can easily absorb the emotions of the people and environments they are exposed to, says Tammy. She uses her training and skills to reopen channels that let the energy flow naturally through the body. The body, mind and spirit will always seek to heal, or to naturally 'right' itself.
"I noticed positive changes in my dog Eddie's behavior immediately after the session" said Marj Elliott, "my friends noticed, too. He had been abused by his first owner and returned. From the moment he came home with me, he was full of anger, fear and seemed depresseda[bar] scared of any interactions with people and especially with children. But after receiving sessions with Tammy, he is so much more relaxed and at peace. Now he is much more social and guardian of the household!"
Tammy works with animals in one-hour distance phone sessions, which can be done virtually anywhere. She says that animals are so highly intuitive and sensitive to emotional and energetic changes that they may feel imbalances even more acutely than people. Many of Tammy's clients admit that they don't quite understand how it works, they just know their animal is more peaceful, grounded and visibly feeling better afterwards. There is no placebo effect with animals, making the subtle changes seen by the owners even more profound.
Tammy Billups is a gifted and caring Certified Interface Therapist, intuitive healer, speaker and writer committed to helping her clients replace pain, negative behaviors and emptiness with a sense of well being and inner peace. She integrates a mind, body and spirit model in her holistic approach to healing both people and animals globally. Interface therapy is an alternative healing modality based on solid psychological principles and ancient techniques of subtle energy healing. Tammy also founded the Sundance Healing Center in 2007, which a focus on holistic health in Atlanta.
For more information about Tammy Billups, please visit tammybillups.com
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Animal Intuitive Transforms the Lives of Pets and their People." PRWeb Newswire, 21 May 2013. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A330563260/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=3391a0fa. Accessed 13 Aug. 2018.
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The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals
Plus Company Updates. (June 23, 2017):
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Tbilisi: Blairsville Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release:
The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals
Name: The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals
Date: June 25, 2017
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Event Description:
The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals
The emotional well-being of animals is an emerging field. How are we connected to our animal companions? Do these connections impact the health of both humans and animals? Can we deepen our connections to the benefit of both?
Tammy Billups, specialist on the relationship between animals and their people, reveals ground-breaking insights and guidance to help your animals heal from the inside out.
If you're an animal lover, you already know animals have feelings and emotions. Their emotional wounds created from their experiences, if not healed, will show up as negative behaviors, like separation anxiety, and they can even manifest as physical issues. More and more people are ready for a shift in consciousness around animals' emotions... such that they're feeling nudged to look at alternative treatments to help them heal...but they just don't know where to start.
Speaking from the heart and soul of the matter, Tammy Billups will share progressive truths about your animals' core emotional wounds that will forever change and enhance your relationships with your beloved companions.
Location:
Inner Awakenings
1650 Tate Road
Blairsville, GA 30512
(706) 374- 0528
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"The Emotional & Energetic Well-Being of Animals." Plus Company Updates, 23 June 2017. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A497415002/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=7bd8ecfd. Accessed 13 Aug. 2018.
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QUOTED: "Billups provides us with the tools to better understand, connect and care for our animal companions and ourselves."
SOUL HEALING WITH OUR ANIMAL COMPANIONS: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection [book review]
OLIVIA BALANGA-SANTOSMARCH 21, 2018BOOK REVIEWS
Front cover of book - Soul healing with our animal companionsSOUL HEALING WITH OUR ANIMAL COMPANIONS: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection
Tammy Billups
[Bear & Company, 192 pages]
Misty was a small, dirty blonde ball of fur with a shaggy face entirely tear-stained in a dark red colour. She was lying down on the floor of her cage, quiet and completely uninterested in my mother and me. I wasn’t interested either, but my mother remained in front of Misty’s cage, mind already made up.
While my mother already loved her, I wasn’t convinced that Misty was a good fit for us. She was anxious, miserable and non-responsive for the first few weeks she was with us. However, we stuck it out, and I’m glad we did; Misty is now an invaluable member of our family.
It’s with this recent experience in tow that I read Tammy Billups’ Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection, an accessible read about the meaningful connections that make up the relationships humans have with the animals in their lives. Billups is a certified Interface Therapist and animal bioenergy healer, thus providing insight from a spiritual and bioenergetics perspective on our animals’ actions, behaviours and physical issues, and how those are deeply connected to our own energy and emotional wounds.
Aimed towards readers who are animal lovers, this book is akin to a spiritual guide to understanding your animal companion on a deeper level, which ultimately leads to understanding yourself. This journey of self-discovery ends up greatly benefiting both the human and the animal.
What happens during an energy healing session
Although it’s a bit difficult to fully grasp or visualize how an energy healing session with an animal works without having ever been to one before, Billups is able to convey what can be revealed during such a session, and how it can benefit the human and the animal.
Each session’s purpose depends on the animal’s individual needs. In order to identify and enhance our understanding of what those needs are, Billups takes us through the five core emotional wounds that an animal may have. She describes behaviours and physical ailments that are associated with each core wound, and provides us with ways or methods to help the animal through them.
One of the most effective devices used throughout the book is Billups’ telling of the stories of animals that she helped or met over the years. These stories highlight not only how inextricably linked humans and their animal companions are, but also, more importantly, how these animals serve as guides and teachers. However, we must be the ones to open our eyes, hearts, minds and very selves in order to learn from them.
A key lesson to be learned
Woman outdoors with golden retriever on leash - Soul healing with our animal companionsBillups provides us with the tools to better understand, connect and care for our animal companions and ourselves. This is most keenly felt in the final part of the book, in which she helps us through the thoughts and emotions that come with making big decisions regarding our animal(s) and how to work through significant life changes.
The key lesson to be learned here is a simple but wonderfully powerful one: love yourself.
The key lesson to be learned here is a simple but wonderfully powerful one: love yourself. Billups reminds us that loving ourselves means healing and accepting ourselves, and our animal companions are there to help us on that journey. In healing ourselves, we also heal them; in accepting ourselves, we accept them for who they are.
What I find surprising is my own emotional response to the book and how it applies to what Misty and I are going through. When we adopted Misty, I was in a dark place in my life: anxious, miserable and non-responsive. Looking back, it’s obvious that we were meant for each other. Although I don’t know much about her past, I can see that her wounds are the same as mine. We both still have a ways to go, but we’re healing together, and I can’t imagine going through this without her.
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by Olivia Balanga-Santos