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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to A Witch, a
Mystic and a Feminist.
Today, we have a truly specialguest with us.
Meet Nina, a passionate animalcommunicator who has turned her
love for animals into alife-changing journey.
From finding solace in thecompany of abandoned and abused
creatures during a challengingchildhood to becoming a
compassionate veterinary nurseworking with human law
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enforcement, nina has a uniqueperspective on the healing power
of the human-animal bond.
Without further ado, let's diveinto this unique and inspiring
episode.
Welcome, nina.
Hi, that was so sweet Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Nina Hi guys, how are
you?
We're good, awesome, how areyou?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes, I'm doing good,
I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Well, we're excited
to have you on the show because
you know we've been trying to dothis for a while and the last
time I have my dog.
The last time we tried to dothis the one that's right here a
couple she got bit by something, that's right.
So I had to take her to the vetand I remember you actually
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gave me a reading like on thespot, and then I took her over
to the vet, which wasinteresting.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was a chaotic
morning.
Yeah, it was a very chaoticmorning.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I don't know if you
remember that, because that was
a while ago.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I do remember, and I
remember it, kind of feeling,
like you know, it's a shame heneeded to go to the vet, but
like I was here so I could kindof give you some guidance on
what was upsetting him or whathe was feeling, which kind of
felt like divine.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So you know, you were
here for a reason.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Exactly, exactly,
exactly, and so you work with
animals as part of your day joband as well as doing your animal
communication.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I only do the
animal communication now, but
for a while I was doing both.
Yeah, oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Oh, do you think that
that's really helped with?
Well, okay, first what camefirst, yeah, oh goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, I guess what
came first was the well.
I guess you know my love foranimals and as a child I had a
really abusive childhood, didn'treally have a ton of friends, I
wasn't very good in school,didn't make a lot of friends in
school, so animals were kind oflike all I had, and so that's
where the love started.
I don't have any consciousmemory of doing animal
communication as a kid, or anyspooky stories or anything
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paranormal or spiritual.
I was just a regular kid insurvival mode.
And you know, as I got older Iwas bouncing around from job to
job like didn't know what Iwanted to do.
I didn't go to college and mysister was volunteering at an
animal shelter and I was like Ican't do it, it's too painful, I
don't think I could handle that.
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She was like well, at the veryleast come meet this dog that
she absolutely fell in love with, and I met him and I ended up
adopting him.
But that's how it started.
I started volunteering at theshelter and then I became an
adoptions counselor at thatshelter, then I became a vet
tech and then I moved on to thePSPCA, which is the prevention
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of cruelty society to animals,which is basically working with
animals who are victims ofcruelty and they go through the
court system and everything likethat, and I think that's where
a lot of my knowledge andpassion and recognizing how
resilient animals are wasworking there.
I worked there for over 10years.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's beautiful.
So that was a good time.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So how did you end up
transitioning into animal
communication?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, Also, growing
up I went to a Catholic grade
school and a little bit of ahigh school.
I ended up dropping out of highschool at home point, but it
was.
I didn't feel comfortable withreligion.
It really scared me and Ialways felt there's always just
a sense of doom, in my opinion.
Beer guilt all the things, yeah,the things I was reading and I
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would stay up at night, I meanfrom like 16 all the way until
like just like a couple of yearsago.
I wasn't therapy for my fear ofdeath and dying and what
happens afterwards and who'scoming back and what they're
going to do, and so I wasterrifying and paralyzing and I
didn't believe in anything.
And then, you know, I realizedthat therapy was helping.
But I needed something more.
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I needed like proof, and Irecognized that if I was going
to find that proof, I needed tobe brave enough to look for it.
So I went down a rabbit hole ofmediumship and I learned from
what they were saying is thatthis is not a gift.
This is just everybody'snatural form of communication.
We just forget because we'rekind of supposed to yeah, yeah,
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whatever your beliefs are.
And so I was like, oh, that'sfun If everyone can do it.
I think I'd like maybe want toexperience connecting with the
spirit world, just to know thatit's real, so that I could maybe
stop having this paralyzingfear of death.
So I started taking theseclasses and it was like 20 other
people in me who were afraid ofdeath and dying and knew
nothing.
And then, all of a sudden, wewere like communicating with
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each other's loved ones andbreaking through like validation
and evidence.
And so I was like this isamazing, like I want to do this
professionally, like it would beso cool if I could do this for
people and help them.
And then I came across, youknow, I was bouncing around from
teachers.
Then I came across a woman whoI took her mediumship course,
but her sister strictly didanimals, and I was like hold the
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phone.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Why am I?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
talking to dead
people.
If I could be talking toanimals when.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I work with animals.
This is amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I was like let
me see what this is all about.
And it was incredible.
And then I found myself in aclass talking to people's
animals and then I was likedoing practicing with my friends
and their animals and then Iwas like I could do this like
for reals.
And because I work in theanimal community, I was like
there's so many animals I couldhelp especially the animals that
I work with who are mostly likehospitalized and coming in with
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really brutal stories andrecovery and rehabilitation, and
I was like I could help themthrough this, at the very least
talk them through this.
And yeah, so that's how I endedup getting started and brought
it to my job and I did utilizeit at work.
And then I was like I think Icould do this and help other
people full time.
And that's kind of how I madethe switch.
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I still go to the PSPCA, butkind of per diem, when they have
like a raid or something reallycrazy going on, they'll ask me
like, do I want to stop in?
And it's rare, but I definitelystill work there whenever they
need me.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh, that's great.
So how long have you beencommunicating with animals then?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I would say
like professionally, like 100%
confidence that I'm doing itabout two years now, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah and go.
I was going to say and do youalso do communication with pets
who are still alive with us?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know, yeah,
that's what like blew my mind.
I was like, oh cool, like yeah,I'm sure we could talk to
animals who are like passed on,like love that.
And then she was like, let's doa living animal.
And I was like, what?
And that was even more exciting.
And that is like I loveconnecting people to their
animals.
In spirit it's beautiful,especially childhood pets.
Like we all leave crying afterthe childhood pets, but
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connecting somebody to theirliving pet is so unique.
Like just this week I had twopeople send me back like updates
because I'm like your animalsays there's a baby's coming.
I don't know who it is, butlike your animals know you're
pregnant, like along before youdo.
And I had two people email meback this week and they were
like, oh, found out who'spregnant.
Oh, my gosh, they know so much.
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Like if you think you're likelying to your animal or hiding
something from them, like theyknow you better than you know
yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
So you know, this
takes me back to when, again,
when I spoke to you with regardsto Capo and then also.
So I have like three pit bulls,and during that time my young
one, kage, was a puppy, and myolder one, koa, didn't like him,
and so you had told me to lethim know that part of his job
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was not just to protect thehouse and the family, but that
Kage was a part of the familytoo and his job was to protect
him.
And so he does that now, and soI had that conversation with
him after we spoke.
He does that now reluctantly,but he just but he does it.
He does it.
I mean like he hasn't bit hisface off.
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We haven't had to go to the vetfor that Amazing Like in the
past year or so.
And he, yeah, like I said, hedoes it, just he's reluctant
about it.
He's just like you and I.
We're still not friends, but Iwill protect you because that's
your job.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I love that and
that's so important, like when
your animals are kind of justlike roaming around.
People really want to know,like, what my animal wants, when
it's like staring at me orbarking at me.
Like well, first I wouldsuggest you take a look at like
what you're procrastinating on,because your animals, their
behaviors, will mirror somethingin your life that you need to
work on.
But also, like, is your animalbored?
Do they need a job?
Yeah, like I would.
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I think it's really big to lookat yourself first and then
what's going on in your animalsenvironment, because, at the end
of the day, yes, they're.
They're here for us to help andguide us, but they're also
still wild animals Like we justdomesticated, we brought them in
, put sweaters on them andcalled it a day, but they still
have like primal instincts andthings that we need to honor.
In addition to them, honoringwhat they do for us so kind of
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goes hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So when I say to my
dog stop looking at me like that
, I'll get to it, just leave mealone.
Like I swear I'll clean, okay,like she actually could be like
hi, like, let's do this.
That's what's getting said.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, okay.
So those things you're like, Ithink my animals like judging me
for something.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh yeah, go with that
.
Okay, I was just going to saythat I was like oh, so your
animal's job is to actually sitthere and judge you, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And it's more like
it's from such a loving place,
like they lovingly sign up to dothis stuff with us, like they
know what they're getting into.
They do.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, yeah, I know my
dog likes to take revenge on us
when we leave her for too long.
So, like when we go on, we'vegotten to the point where we no
longer put her in boarding if wego on a trip.
We actually have a house sitter, pet sitter that comes and
stays in the house purely forour dog and our two cats, and
every time, like she come, wecome home from a trip and she's
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all happy to see us.
And then I find out she pissedon my son's bed.
I'm like what are you?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
doing Like she'll.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I really think it's
like I'll show you.
You go somewhere that longwithout me, you know, because
she just, yeah, that I love herSorry.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
She has my revenge.
I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Missy, don't you dare
leave me that long with
strangers, even though it's thesame pets that are we've had for
like years.
But okay.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So I would be
interested to like I can't do it
, like obviously I wouldn't doit now.
I don't know that.
My experience is that animalsare revengeful.
I think they're always likeguiding you, like something
probably about you vacationing,or the sitter.
You're probably not happy withsomething in that situation,
like there's probably somethingyou might want to change or
something you would feel morecomfortable in, because they
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don't know that they'rerevengeful.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And they could be
just not.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Maybe it's not
revenge may not be the right
word it's like, or even spiteful, I think they can be if you're
not doing some what they'retrying to teach you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Stay home with me.
Why are you leaving me?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
This woman reached
out to me and she's like my dog
won't stop urinating in my son'sroom.
That's all she told me.
And we connected and her dogtold me that the song was really
nasty and was hitting hislittle sister and hitting his
mom and that's really sensitiveand that's tough to bring
through to somebody.
So I try to as gently as I canbring through in these really
heavy things that your animalswill bring through.
And you know she was like I'mjust going to shut the door.
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And I told the animal and theanimal was like great, shut the
door but I'm not going to stop,like I'll urinate outside of the
room because something needs tobe done about this, like kind
of abuse towards the littlesister, and so there's usually
something going on that needs tobe like tended to.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, Now I'm
thinking, I'm like what am I
doing?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Don't think you're
working to it, like I would just
work there and be like heygirlfriend, like what's going on
?
The belief is going on withthis and then just like, let it
come to you, like whatever youfeel here, see, no, just go with
that.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So how do animals
actually communicate with us?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's so many
different ways, but I feel like
I should talk about kind of likeyour psychic senses, like
you're knowing, you're hearing,you're feeling and things like
that.
But the way that theycommunicate most is through
visual images and like feelings.
So usually when I'm connectingwith somebody I might get like a
quick snapshot of a picture,like it's real quick, and then
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I'll get like a feeling or asensation with it.
So those are the way that theycommunicate with me the most.
So, like a lot of people wantto know, how do I keep my dog
off the couch when you'resending them this image of like
get off the couch, what are youpicturing?
You're picturing your animal onthe couch.
I would picture them on thefloor and say, like get on the
floor, because you're gonna sendthem mixed messages, because,
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like your feeling is likeannoying and you're on the couch
and they're like I don't knowwhy you're annoyed, like I see
what you're sending me, I'm onthe couch.
I would send them somethingelse, something that you want
them to do, not a behavior youdon't want them to do.
So that's usually how theycommunicate.
But sometimes words which I hearin my voice you guys would hear
it in your voice kind of justdrops down.
If it's my voice it's usuallyhappens up here, like if it's my
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brain and then, if it's theirs,it drops in the back of my head
and it quite literally feelslike somebody is like dropping a
word in my head and I'll hearit in my voice and then you know
you.
Kind of this way I tell peoplelike I'll interpret it and piece
it all together and bring itthrough to you.
But if something doesn't soundright or doesn't sound like your
animal, don't try to make itfit, because it's possible to
misinterpret these messages.
So we're gonna do this together.
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Like they might send me a greenballoon and I'm like I have no
idea what this means, but itmakes me really excited and
maybe their favorite collar hasgreen balloons on it.
So I also ask for validationback when we're doing this
communication.
It's it's a three-way dialoguebetween me, you and your animal.
So I always recommend peoplecome ready to talk.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, that is
beautiful.
I love that.
Now I'm seriously, I'm sittinghere going.
What is Maggie thinking?
My little dog, I'm like hmm.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Also like in feeling,
like when people want to know,
do you, is your animal in anydiscomfort or pain, like I'll
always say I can't diagnose youranimal.
I believe very much inveterinary medicine and doing it
together rather than inreplacing.
And I'll Scan the animals bodyand or I'll ask them, like when
someone's like all my dogtowards leg, I'll ask the dog
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what leg, and then my leg mightgo numb, I might get a vibration
, I might get a pain in my knee.
It's a couple differentsensations.
Or if an animal, if I ask themhow they pass, if they pass from
a seizure, I get a big pain inmy head and I get really
lightheaded.
So you can also.
They'll speak to you in a waythat makes sense to you.
So you can say this is my signfor blank.
Please, for the rest of howeverlong I do this, communicate
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with me through this so I knowlike this is my sign for seizure
, this is my sign for heartcondition, things like that.
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I truly believe that
I I do communicate with my, with
my dogs, and my husbandsometimes thinks I'm baddie
because I'm like.
You know the commentary thatcomes out of my mouth.
Is that really what they'rethinking?
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Communication is
really happening all the time.
You guys do it with youranimals every day.
They have no problemcommunicating with you.
It's you, the human, me, thehuman, that is probably not
listening.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah yeah, exactly.
Well, and we're not tuned intotheir language either, like you
were saying.
Right, like exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And I think we're
more tuned in than we think.
Like you, you're these thingsthat are just coming to your
head, like if you feel like, oh,I really want something that my
dog might want, or my dog mightreally want this, I would trust
that and get it for your animal.
Or if, for some reason, you'relike, if your dogs like knocked
out and you're like Do they wantto go outside?
You know, go with that, see ifthey want to go outside.
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Trust, trust what you'regetting from your animals.
I think the more you listen toyour animals, the the more
you're gonna see it happen.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, and, and like
you said it, it goes back to the
abilities of listening toourselves right, trusting what
we think we're getting andknowing that as a sign, a truth
of communication, because a lotof times we Second guess our own
intuition, our own, yeah that'sthe most challenging thing and
I think even when people asktheir animals for signs, they'll
get it and they'll be likenever sign here, sign like they
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don't even trust the sign thatthey got.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Totally, totally
normal, like I do it, you right,
but Trust that like.
People are like this, somethingmagical happened or it's really
mundane and they're likethere's no way that could have
been it.
Like this, in some way they'llmake it impossible for it to be
a sign and it's like then youranimals gonna be like oh,
whatever, yeah, come back to youanother day.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You're not listening.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, and they, they
don't get like frustrated, but
we're human and they're likealready mastered all the things
that there is to master,especially when they're in
spirit.
They're like whatever humanlike.
I'll come back to you another I.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
See, not listening.
We've stopped using the word,the big C word, the coincidence
word, because we find that youknow.
We just sum up these signs thatwe've asked for as much as just
a coincidence.
That's just a coincidence.
No, it's not like embrace it,whatever it might be and how
much more even if it is acoincidence and we're all nuts.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
How much more fun is
life when you believe in the
magic.
Yeah, please like why?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
what's the harm?
At least it makes your hearthappy, you know or whatever.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
It is love that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, we
stopped using the C word around
here.
Believe in coincidences?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No, we don't.
So what are some of the withyour clients that come and see
you?
What's like a common questionthat a lot of people come and
ask you?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Really common
question for animals in spirit.
People wanna know if they'regonna come back, if they're
gonna see them again in thislifetime.
Also, a lot of people want tosay sorry to their animals for,
however, the way they passedwhen, especially if they have to
be euthanized.
So that's really common withthe animals in spirit.
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Really common for animals whoare living is what can I do
better to be a pet parent?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
That's really big.
And what advice would you havefor pet owners in general,
generalized, what advice wouldyou give to them to help them
with that?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
To be a better pet
parent.
Yeah, generalized advice Iwould, depending on like the pet
you have, I would look.
I would really look into theirenvironment and what their basic
needs are for enrichment andkind of what they would do in
the wild if they weren'tdomesticated, and give them that
kind of enrichment as well aslike something that we would
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find at the store, like includeboth, because they are wild at
the end of the day and thatreally makes them happy when
they're doing what they're bornto do, like what their natural
job is, but I really honestlygiving your animals like
remembering that they'resentient beings and give them
their space, respect theirboundaries.
Animals will talk to you throughtheir own body language, but
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also I think that people forgetthat they will give off energy
and you can feel it.
You don't have to be tuned into feel this, this is just
natural.
Everybody has an energy field.
Listen to that and I think, aslong as you're providing them
with, like, their boundaries andtheir basic needs, that's they
love you that's good enough.
And also giving them thatenrichment and training and
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things like that, that's justlike the cherry on top.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't normally have
my animals in here when I'm
recording, but I have an emptyhouse and if I leave the door
shut they will scratch out thedoor.
So that was my big white cat,Buster, who is probably my most
challenging pet to understand,and he's a you know it's funny.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
My dog Slinky's
really difficult for me to
understand.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, really.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, he doesn't use
words, it's just like feelings
and I'm like what, what, what,what, what.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
He's tough.
What do you try to say?
It's like nothing, but here'sall my feelings, yeah he's very.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The other day we were
on a walk and he was like
staring into nothing, and he'sbeen doing this often and I was
like what's going on?
And he was like observe, and Iwas like observe what?
And he like disconnected fromme.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Pay attention, help
me out, pay attention, look at
me, look in front of you, thiscat.
We've had discussions aboutthis cat before and I have found
that cats, because I do feellike they're more I don't wanna
say more wild than dogs, but Ifeel like they are naturally
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just their cats, like they tendto be a little more into their
wild nature than I have with mylittle dog, who's, you know,
eight pounds and can't getenough of humans.
This cat we found in ourbackyard nine years ago maybe,
and you know, three days old,and I just I can't, I don't
understand him.
I'm trying to level up with himbecause he's so, he's just so
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protective of the family, but hehas one person in our family
it's my daughter that he allowsto do whatever she wants to him
Like.
That is his human and I lovethat.
Literally like if she's eatingat the table.
That's the only time I allowhim to sit there on the table,
the dining table, to eat,because she's right there and he
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has to be like on, like right,watching her eat.
When she's doing homework, hishead is on her hand while she's
doing homework.
When they sleep, he sleeps onthe other side of her bed on the
pillow next to her, like thatis just his human.
Now the rest of us?
Just don't touch the white cat.
He will scratch you, swat atyou, whatever.
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He'll sit on the perch and asyou walk by, you know, swings at
you.
But my daughter all day sobeautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, I believe the
families that they're born into,
or whatever that they do, havelike contracts and things set up
with everybody that they'remeant to fulfill, but there
sometimes there is just that oneperson that they're meant to be
like their best friend or theirbiggest guy.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
For whatever reason,
they've truly connected.
And you know she'll come overand say, Buster, don't do like,
if he swings us, don't do that.
And then he just kind of, andthen she'll go to a room and he
follows suit right behind her.
That's so sweet.
But I will say, like he has, heloves his family.
So I just I tell people whenthey come over, don't touch the
white cat Like he loves hisfamily.
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My husband will be sitting onthe couch and he just comes
right up here and he's like a 15pound cat, Like he's a big cat.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Like I really feel
like he's trying to come through
here here because, as you'retalking, he's like, and so what?
He's like, so what if I don'twant people to touch me?
He's laughing at how it's soeasy for animals to put up
boundaries and humans like theyhaven't mastered it yet and
we're so silly Like.
He's like, so what?
Put up a boundary like, try itout sometime.
So normal for the animals to putup boundaries because they've
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mastered all the things theydon't, they don't care, they're
like I don't want you touchingme.
This is my person.
I love my humans and I don'tneed to talk to anybody else out
there because I have a job thatI came to do it and some
animals are like that and someanimals are very much like.
I'm just going to go out toeverybody who's really scared of
dogs and just be the best dog Ican be and change a bunch of
hearts, like it just depends onyour animal.
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So I would encourage him and belike.
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you for modeling such awonderful behavior of like
setting your boundary.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I now respect you,
know I'm actually like, like I
feel that, because I feel like Ifeel I'm so proud, I feel like
I'm listening to my cat, he, Ifeel like that's like what he's
walking around saying Like Idon't, I don't care, my person
is Stella, my daughter, andthat's that's who I'm here to be
with.
You know, and screw the rest ofyou Like I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
And you're honoring
that by when people you're like
just don't touch the way.
Yeah, don't mess with that, andI think that's beautiful that
you honor that and you give themhis space.
Like you're not like, well,what can I do to make him more
friendly, like he loves hisperson, he loves his family and
that's good enough for him andyou're like, that's good enough
for me too?
That's really good advice I cangive people.
Accept your animal.
For who?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
they are.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Don't try to make
them something else.
Like I've got a very reactivejob, aisha, and I will never try
to push her past her limits.
Yeah, like I've heard she's hada rough life, I would never
push her past her limits.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, I, I hope you
do feel this and hear this
buster, but we do.
We respect the fact that he isthat way.
Now do I wish he was the cuddly, cozy cat sometimes?
Yeah, because he's a very sweetcat to the people he loves.
But yeah, I kind of like thathe owns it and he's like screw
you In my house, people, you'rein my house.
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Yeah, yeah, he's, he'sinteresting.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
There's a lot we can
learn from the behaviors that we
think are like silly orundesirable.
Sometimes it's like I wonder ifI did that in my life.
Yeah, If I would be happy.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Right, I'm glad you
bring that up, because my
youngest dog he's just barely ayear old and he is what I call a
dood-de-doo Like he will startchasing his tail.
He'll be like right in yourface and then all of a sudden
his tail comes around and he'sjust starts chasing it, and so
I'm like, oh, it's thedood-de-doo, dood-de-doo.
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I was talking with my husbandand I was like you know, he's so
goofy, but if we all just likehe's so in the moment and I
think he's just a reminder thatwe need to live in the moment
Like that's his lesson here forus is quit being so serious all
the time and sometimes just gochase your tail, which is why I
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want to tail Again.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I love that.
Still wants to tail.
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
We can learn a lot
from just paying attention to
how they act in their day to daylives.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, and that's
where I was going with my point
that at best I hope you hearthis we do defend him and I hope
he knows that, because peoplewill say, oh yeah, that's the
mean cat, you know, just leavehim alone, like people who know
Buster who come in this houseand Like, yeah, just leave him
alone, he's fine, you know, hewon't bother you if you don't
bother him.
You know, and I will tell him,like if he gets too close to
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people, because I know, I knowhim, I know he will potentially
swat at them.
Buster, get down, you know, andI he just looks at me and I'll
be like Buster and he and thenhe goes and he gets Stella.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, I wouldn't be
mindful of what you let people
say about it, like he's the meancat or like because names the
things we give them, hold energy.
So you know like a lot ofpeople will comment on my tiktok
about them.
Like I call my animal liketrash bag or something like
those are the people who aretrying to be funny.
But if you're calling youranimal trash bag and there's
just like love coming from you,great yeah.
(27:02):
But like when you're like he'sthe mean cat, that resonates
with the feeling and he's he'sgonna pick up on that and then
he's gonna model that back.
When my mom comes down and mydogs like barking and lunging,
she praises my penny, how areyou doing?
You're so brave like we don'tdo bad.
Talk to my animals in thishouse because they'll model that
we try and defend them.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, he's just
asleep, buster alone.
He's fine, he's these dude doesthing.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's okay, like I'll
call my cat sour patch because
she's sweet, and sour becauseshe is, but she was born that
way.
I used to call her a demon andI stopped calling her that, and
ever since then she's been somuch sweeter, oh, she's like
thank you, take a hint yeah.
I truly believe that oh.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So what would a?
So somebody contacts you for areading.
What would the process be like?
What can they expect?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah.
So a lot of people like toemail me first and kind of tell
me what's going on in theirfamily, and I love that.
I think have starting arelationship with a communicator
starts before you even meet.
I love when people email me andreach out to me because nobody
really knows what an animalcommunicator is or they're like
they don't know what to expect.
So, talking to me beforehand,I'd love to prep you so you can
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be more comfortable and safe orfeeling safe coming to the
session.
But usually what they do isthat you know they just kind of
go to the website, they book asession, they pick what day and
time works for them.
I will email them and ask for apicture of their animal or
their crew.
I usually ask for one of themfacing the camera.
It doesn't matter if they werepuppies or when they're older.
I just I also ask for multiplesbecause I I know it's
(28:36):
impossible to choose one, so I'mlike send as many as you want
and.
I'm not seeing their faces.
So and then we log on to thezoom I introduced myself and
what you can expect is reallywhat you want out of the session
.
I ask you to think ofintentions, anything you want to
tell your animal, ask youranimal, quirky behaviors there's
medical things that are goingon.
What your purpose is, whattheir purpose is, is there
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anything they want to accomplishin this lifetime?
And then there are some peoplewho come without questions and
that is completely fine.
I'll tap into the animal andsay, hey, like, what are your
priorities?
Is there anything you want tochange in your day-to-day?
Anything you want, less ofanything you want your humans to
stop doing.
And what people I think don'texpect is they come wanting to
hear about their animal andtheir animals like, here's like
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one thing about me.
Here's a laundry list of thingsabout my human, and they don't
expect that and I'm always likelisten, I'm so sorry.
I know you came here to talkabout your animal and we'll get
to it, but they won't alwaystalk about themselves until they
get their message across,because when you are happy and
in alignment, they are happy inan alignment and a lot of things
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will go better in their lifewhen things are going better in
your life.
So that's what you can expect alittle bit of like a therapy
session for you and then alittle light-heartedness about
what's going on with your animal.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
You really just
depends on the animal and it
depends on, like what's going onin your life, this visual, as
you were saying, that of, likethe dog, like, oh Okay, let me
tell you what's going on withthis human and I, like let me
give you the laundry, like I amin thank you for coming because
I'm trying to tell this human,my human, all these things, and
they're not listening.
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I had a session the
other day and the lady was like
she's definitely been talking tomy therapist.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
They're like.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Therapist.
They will, they will.
I once had two people come intothe session different, they
shared the zoom link, differentlike places in the world and the
woman told me this was her oldroommate and that they raised
the animal together.
And when I tapped into theanimal, the animals like they're
not roommates, they have brokenup and they're not in a good
place with each other and I waslike this is delicate, you don't
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have to answer me, but this isthe energy coming from your
animal, like just thisdisresonate.
And then they started laughingand it broke the tension.
Oh so like I always trust whatthe animals say, which is is Was
difficult for me, like havingto trust that you're telling me
your roommates and your animalsessentially like they're lying
yeah, it was so beautifulbecause they were so tense and
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then when their animal said that, it broke the tension and the
session was so nice.
I love when people come relaxand excited, because when you're
loose and excited and in aplace of receiving and being
like open-minded, your animalslike swoop in so strongly and
then when you and I spoke, itwas oh my god, I have one dog
attacking another dog.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
My dog over here just
got bit by something and she's
swelling up.
I'm like what is going on?
And so, yeah, there was a lotof tension.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
That can happen too.
I mean, some of the sessionsare really beautiful, like
hearted and fun, and some ofthem are really emotional and
icky and talked about thingsthat are our grief and guilt and
regret, like those big feelingsdo come up.
It just depends on you and yourintentions and your animal.
So I don't even ever know whatto expect.
I just go with whatever you andthe animals start saying.
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It's like it's really aconversation between you and
your animals and I am just solike the bridge.
Yeah, I just like pass themessage back and forth.
Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
What's one of the
funniest stories that you have?
That a that an animal hascommunicated with you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Funny.
The only thing that's coming tomind right now is I had a
client whose cat asked for afish because he said he was
bored and like he wanted afriend.
So he wanted like a fish and abull.
And then about a year and ahalf later she had booked with
me again and I don't alwaysremember the people or the
animals and I was connectingwith her new animal and I was
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like your cat wants a fish andshe was like he said this last
time, like he wanted a fish lasttime, and it's like a year and
a half later and he's likewhere's my fish?
Yeah.
Or his friend was like where'sour fish?
I also had a dog asked for likeoh, I'm sorry, it was a cat.
Another cat asked for, um, hewas newly adopted into a home
(32:50):
that already had a cat and Isaid does your one cat wear like
like bling, like a chain?
Because this other cat was likehe's got bling, I don't, and
she literally had like a chaincollar for them, like, like,
like rappers would wear.
Sometimes they're really sillyand you know that's one of them
when they're like I want blingbecause the other cat has some
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bling.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That's awesome.
Where's my bling?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Come on, yeah, yeah,
I'm sure I have other funny ones
, but those are the ones thatare coming to mind right now.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
That is so awesome.
I'm like animals are just sofantastic, and you know we
deserve them.
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, they're amazing
they really are.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So you're doing this
full time.
How could we get in contactwith you?
How?
Can our listeners get incontact with you.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Um.
I have Tik Tok, which my handleis just firefly viban.
V I B I N?
Um, and then my Instagram isthe same, just firefly viban,
and my website is on both ofthose, or you could just like
Google wwwfireflyvibeincom andthe website is.
I think it's user friendly.
I tried to make it userfriendly.
I thought like an about me, sometestimonials.
(34:00):
There's like a fact page.
There's a lot of stuff on there.
And then I recently just addeda new offering which isn't
actually communication with youranimals, it's communication
with the wild animals.
So like, if you want a letterfrom a wild animal, I'll tap
into, like, the animal kingdom,the animal realm, and whichever
animal presents itself I'll well, I don't write the letter they
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tell me and I just type it.
And that's been a lot of fun.
That's new and a couple ofpeople have done it and it's so
incredibly fun and unique.
It's called like animalmedicine.
One of my mentors taught meabout it and I took a lot of
courses on that and I felt readyenough to share it.
Like, I do this thing where Idon't think I'm ready to do
things and then I know that I amand I just have to get over it.
(34:43):
So that's been so much fun andI'm really, I'm really excited
that I kind of got over the fearof doing it, just did it.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Wait, I'm like, hold
on, I want to.
I want to know a little bitmore about this.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I'm like what animals
have you tapped into?
Yeah, what Christy said.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
So, for instance,
like one of the girls emailed me
and was like I would like someadvice on like moving to new
places and like meeting newfriends.
So I tapped into the animalrealm and what appeared was a
guana and I was like, okay, cool, like what did she got?
And they, what the animals?
What they do is they.
They refer to what they use inthe wild to survive and they ask
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us to try to apply it in ourown lives.
And the guana was just kind ofsaying like I could change when
I need to.
And what he was saying is likeyou're in this new place, you
don't have to be anything thatyou used to be.
You can be whoever you want now, because nobody knows you,
nobody knows your background.
And so he's kind of saying likeblend in where you want to
blend in and stand out where youwant to stand out, because now
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you can nobody knows anythingabout you and don't be afraid,
be like proud and excited toshare this new person.
And so I thought that wasreally like unique and sometimes
the animals will say like youneed to eat this fruit or like,
bring this color into your life,like the wild animals are.
They're so amazing and I didthis offering because I was
really sad one time not too longago.
(36:00):
I was like sad and I felt alittle lost in the sauce and I
went to that, drove down to thebeach and I was just like
walking on the sand and I waslike talking to the waves and I
was like I can really use someadvice right now.
And the crabs came, notliterally but like they came
into my brain and you know theywere basically like you can live
a life of circumstance and havelife decide things for you, or
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you can live a life of choiceand decide what you want.
And I was like that's like itwas so profound to me at the
time and I was like I could Ican live a life on purpose or I
can live a life by circumstances, what they're saying so I can
make my choices and live onpurpose or let life decide for
me and live based offcircumstances.
And I was like I love this,like thank you so much and I
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felt so much better.
So I think sometimes, when,like my own animals aren't
interested in like helping meout that day, or like the humans
in my life, I'm like you justdon't get when I'm feeling I
just happen to the animal realmbecause they have a different
perspective.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
That's beautiful.
That is beautiful.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I was like this is so
helpful for my life, I've got
to offer this to like somebodyelse and it's been.
It's been really exciting.
The last one I had a coyotecame and like, shared some, some
stuff with this lady and thenthat day she emailed me back.
She lives in Florida and acoyote was in her yard taking
oranges off of her tree and Iwas like how sweet is that?
Like, they're always like, theydon't always come and manifest
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physically.
But he did Like I gave her thisletter from coyote and then,
bam, a coyote is like in herbackyard.
She's love it.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
That is amazing.
I'm so happy.
Yeah, that's beautiful, itreally is, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Absolutely Well, Nina
.
Thank you so much for joiningus and we will make sure to put
all of your contact info in theshow notes.
This was just fantastic and toall of our listeners.
As stated, I had a reading withher and she was able to help me
with my living animals.
I had an excellent experiencewith you, so thank you so much
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for joining us.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Thank you, yeah, it
was my pleasure.
Those were some really awesomequestions, thank you.
That was fun.
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