Dogs Mirror Their Owners

On this month's Chat with Crystal episode, Jenn joins the call. Jenn shares that she's been a student at S.W.A.T. for the last ten years in the original Master Empowerment Coach Certification (MECC), and in that time, she feels like she's taken more time than she "should have" to complete the program and get clarity on her business. However, Jenn's now at the end of her MECC studies getting ready to graduate and is ready to put herself out there. Still, she is having a bit of a disconnect with her current business that she'd love to marry with her Empowerment Coaching business. Crystal asks Jenn if she could wave a magic wand and do anything; what would she do? Jenn shares that she's doing a lot of it now. As a dog trainer, teacher, and coach for the last 20 years, she knows how so often with her clients, when a dog comes in with a behavioral issue, it almost always has to do with the owner. Our dogs often mirror us back, and usually, both the owner and the dog need coaching. Crystal reassures Jenn that this is a brilliant and niche business idea and shares some tips with Jenn to get her going on the right track. Ellen then joins the call and shares that as a student in the brand-new MECC program, there's an assignment she's gotten stuck on, one about triggers. Crystal and Ellen walk through the assignment together, and Crystal asks Ellen (as per the assignment) to think about a person in her life that triggers her and what it is about this person that does so. Ellen shares that this specific woman in her life that triggers her can be a b*tch — that she is a know-it-all, master of all, judgemental, patronizing, and condescending, and that she makes Ellen feel insignificant. Crystal asks Ellen to think back to a person in her life growing up that treated her the same way or a time when she decided that behaving in that way was not who she wanted to be. Ellen shares that it was her older sister. Crystal leads Ellen through a trigger exercise to find her own buried 'bitch,' and help her heal this trigger.