April 30, 2025 • 46 mins
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As an animal communicator who specializes in pet reincarnation through joyful reunion, I am on a mission to demystify and de-woo the whole process of pet reincarnation.
One of the most frequent questions I get from grieving pet parents and the pet reincarnation curious alike is, what it is really like to live with your reincarnated pet day to day?
Will your reincarnated pet be exactly the same as they were last time? If your reincarnated pet is different than they were before, what does that mean and how can you know it is really them returned to you in a new body?
In this podcast episode, we tackle these questions and more head-on.
As you listen, you will learn....
- What to expect when your pet reincarnates back to you
- The real reason your reincarnated pet will not be "exactly the same" as they were before (and how this benefits you both!)
- The role your grief plays in navigating your evolving relationship
- The big payoff for being patient with the pet reincarnation process
- And so much more....
Special resources to support you as you listen:
Pet Parent Joyful Reunions Pet Reincarnation Guide: https://www.animallovelanguages.com/petreincarnation
Pet Parent Grief Support Guide: https://www.animallovelanguages.com/griefsupportguide
A tale of pet reincarnation: how Pearl Became Petal: https://letstalktoanimals.buzzsprout.com/2105365/episodes/14130275-a-tale-of-pet-reincarnation-how-pearl-became-petal
How a lost turtle led to a miraculous love story of pet reincarnation, part 1: https://letstalktoanimals.buzzsprout.com/2105365/episodes/16109884-how-a-lost-turtle-led-to-a-miraculous-love-story-of-pet-reincarnation
How a lost turtle led to a miraculous love story of pet reincarnation, part 2: https://letstalktoanimals.buzzsprout.com/2105365/episodes/16109891-part-two-of-how-a-lost-turtle-led-to-a-miraculous-love-story-of-pet-reincarnation
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Shannon Cutts (00:00):
Welcome back to :et's Talk to Animals.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive and anintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
communication teacher withanimallovelanguages.
com.
However, for our purposes today, I am serving as your friendly
neighborhood hostess and guidefor the Let's Talk to Animals
(00:22):
podcast, where we unpack,uncover and discover together
all that there is to learn aboutinterspecies communication and
conversation.
What's on the conversationaldocket today?
Well, I decided it's time totalk about what it's really like
to live with your reincarnatedpet.
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So let's dive in Now.
For those of you who've been apart of let's Talk to Animals
for a while, you know that I amliving with not one, but two
reincarnated pets.
I have shared their individualstories in much greater detail
in other podcast episodes.
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You can take a look backthrough the archives for how Mr
Pearl became Petal and theglorious story of my
reincarnated soul walk-in boxturtle Bruce, who became Io.
So you can enjoy those episodesat another time.
But I get a lot of questionsfrom my one-to-one pet parent
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clients and my animalcommunication students about
what is it really likeday-to-day living with your
reincarnated pet.
And isn't that just thequestion to end all questions
right.
So that's what I'm tackling foryou today, speaking from my
personal experiences, as well asmy observations and my case
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files helping you reunite withyour reincarnated pets through
the joyful reunion.
And the first thing that I canshare about what it's like to
live with your reincarnated petis it's the same, yet different.
So let's unpack that a littlebit.
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After all, when we go throughthe process of reuniting with
our reincarnated pet, we arelooking for certain signs,
certain hallmarks, we gather apacket of clues.
I can help you do that.
If you are, in your heart,longing for your reincarnated
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pet to return to you and you'renot sure exactly how to go about
it, I have a free resourceguide and, of course, we can
schedule a session and talkabout that.
But if you're new to this wholewonderful world of reincarnated
pets, you might not be awarethat what, in my experience,
typically happens is that we setthe intention first yes, I want
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to reunite with my reincarnatedpet, I want to be with this
animal, I want to share my lifewith this particular soul and I
want them to come back in a newbody.
That kicks off the joyfulreunions process, and what
happens, of course, is that youhave made a choice and there are
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many, many choices that you canmake.
When a beloved pet needs to passout of their physical body for
any reason age, a suddenaccident, an illness for some
reason, their current body hasbecome uninhabitable and they
need to leave it.
That doesn't mean that theyhave died.
It means that their body hasdied.
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Their energy is still sentient,aware and just as alive, in
fact, perhaps more alive than itever was, while it was
contained within the physical 3Dbody.
So you have made a decisionthat you are searching for a
particular soul, a particularbeing, what I call a particular
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energetic signature, a heartprint, someone that you will
recognize, someone who willrecognize you.
This is very different from theprocess of choosing to adopt a
new pet, a different pet, adifferent energetic signature, a
different soul occupying a newbody.
It's very different from thechoice that some bereaved pet
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parents make to clone their petusing DNA from the previous body
.
It's very different than thechoice some of my pet parent
clients have made to not getanother animal because of
whatever their personal reasonsor life circumstances may be.
You have many, many choices.
You can also volunteer withanimals as another fulfilling
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way to have that interspeciescontact.
But no, you have not chosen anyof these options.
You have chosen petreincarnation.
Congratulations, because, guesswhat, you've just signed up for
a soul awakening.
You probably didn't realize thatwhen you said, yes, I want the
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pet reincarnation option, youcheck that box.
You probably didn't realize youwere signing up for a soul
awakening and evolution from 3Dto 5D consciousness and a crash
course in the energetics of whatEinstein called the law of
conservation of energy, whichbasically states that energy is
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neither created nor destroyed,but it can be, and it is
transmuted and transformed.
So what's really going onbehind the scenes when you check
that box that you want your petto come back and they also
check that box on their side,that they want to come back and
come back specifically to you ina new body?
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What you've signed up for is acrash course in physics Yay,
quantum physics, the law ofconservation of energy.
The energy that was yourbeloved pet in their last body
is now going to be your belovedpet in their new body, and your
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mission, if you choose to acceptit, is to recognize that unique
energetic signature, thatunique energy that was them in
their last body and will be themagain in their new body and is
them right now in their ethericform.
Your challenge is to recognizethem.
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So what happens when I wastalking about those little
packets of clues is whether youdo this on your own.
I did this on my own, of course.
Clues is whether you do this onyour own.
I did this on my own, of course.
I am a trained animalcommunicator, so I'm able to
send and receive two-waytelepathic and intuitive
messages with animals, and soI've been able to navigate this
process within myself for myself.
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But often what happens is you'llhire someone like me who can
help you make that telepathicand intuitive connection with
your pet in their etheric body,in their life, between lives, as
Dr Michael Newton sobeautifully put it, and as your
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go-between, as your interspecieslanguage translator, as your
interspecies language translator, I can help you gather what I
have come to call a littlepacket of clues.
And this little packet of cluesis like your intuitive
scavenger hunt Gives you littlebits and pieces and details,
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signs, symbols, things thatwould be meaningful to you, that
might not be at all meaningfulto me or someone else, but
between you and your pet, theselittle tidbits, these little
clues, have meaning.
There's always a reason foreach clue that is given,
although typically we have tohold them carefully in terms of
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following each one literally andinstead recognize them as
symbolic breadcrumbs.
So it might pan out that, yes,your puppy does end up getting
born into a brown body with awhite patch on the left side,
just behind the ear, or therecould be another brown puppy
with a white patch behind theear in your puppy's litter, or
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that could just be the image ofthe puppy in the photo that you
see.
That sends you to the shelterwhere you meet your reincarnated
pet in their actual body, whichlooks nothing like a brown
puppy with a white spot behindthe ear.
And this is an actual storyfrom my case files.
So that's just an example.
Of course, we're not here todelve into exactly how the
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packets of clues work and how towork with them.
If that is something you'reinterested in, I would highly
recommend that you schedule asession and we can walk through
that for you and your pet.
But just understand, you'reworking with an intention, which
is I want to reunite, through ajoyful reunion, with my soul
pet in their new body.
You're gathering a littlepacket of clues just signs,
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symbols, information to help putblinders on your intuition a
little bit, so you don't have tofilter 3 billion bits of data
every single day as it flowsthrough you, but rather you can
be on the lookout for certainpatterns in the chaos.
And that's the job of yourreticular activating system and
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it's the foundation of howmanifesting works.
And manifesting is a huge partof pet reincarnation and I teach
that inside animalcommunication adventure.
So if you're interested in that, it's absolutely a passion of
mine to teach the mechanics ofhow all of this comes together.
But back to our topic today,which is what it's really like
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to live with your reincarnatedpet.
You have basically said yes toa scavenger hunt, an intuitive
scavenger hunt, and at the endof that scavenger hunt you have
the joyful reunion with yoursoul pet.
And so, yes, there will be somethings that will be very
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familiar, the same.
Recently I talked with one ofmy pet parent clients who just
met her sole pet in their newlyreincarnated body and she said
one of the ways that I knew isbecause the only dog I've ever
had that nipped at my heelsright from puppyhood was my
reincarnated dog, and in herlast body she did this and in
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her new body.
She does this so it's notalways the traits that you
remember with the most fondnessthat they will use to let you
know.
Yes, it's really me, mom or dador guardian.
There will be little things andsometimes big things that are
just the same.
Another one of my recent joyfulreunions my pet parent client
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actually brought a toy that hadbelonged to her reincarnated pet
in his last body.
She brought the toy and whenshe rolled it towards the puppy
she thought was her reincarnatedpet.
He jumped on it and wouldn'tlet it go and would not share it
with anyone else.
And so you can see, they mightplay with the same favorite toy,
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they might curl up in the sameway when they go to bed they
might nip at your heels.
They might have so manydifferent characteristics that
you recall from your lastincarnation together.
But there will also bedifferences.
This is so key In fact.
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If I had to sum up what it'sreally like to live with your
reincarnated pet really likeday-to-day brass tacks, plain
speak here I would say it's thesame yet different, and there's
grief to factor in.
So there will be differencesand there will be grief, and
we're going to tackle those inthat order.
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The first thing to understandand I've experienced this both
with my petal, who is thereincarnation of my soul bird of
24 years, pearl, and also withIo, my soul walk-in
reincarnation of my beloved boxturtle Bruce.
He's back as box turtle Io.
I've experienced this with bothof these.
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There are differences that Itruly feel and believe are set
up to maintain the soulawakening and the evolution and
the unfolding of my intuitiveawareness.
Because what happens with us is,if we just get exactly what we
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want, exactly when we want it,over and over and over again,
how much do you think weactually grow?
How motivated do you think weare to grow?
Not very right, I know I'm not.
If I'm comfortable and happyand they're serving my favorite
food and I'm well entertainedand I'm healthy and things are
vibing along, no need to changeanything here.
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I'm good.
But if there's wavering, ifthere's doubt, if there's
confusion, if there's indecision, I have to do something to
break through that, to get backto the happy, joyful, trusting,
peaceful inner space that Iprefer.
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So when you're saying yes to petreincarnation, when you're
saying yes to the joyful reunion, just understand that there
will be things that will be thesame, yet there will be things
that will be different, andthere's two reasons for this.
One is what I just talked about, that we don't grow if we're
not asked to stretch outside ofour comfort zone.
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So you might be so sure, or 95%sure, even 89% sure, when you
say yes to your reincarnated petin their new body, and maybe
they come home with you andmaybe they're very similar,
maybe they're sort of similar,maybe they're really exactly
identical one day, and then notso much the next.
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And what happens is your innertrust in your own intuition as
your guide will waveraccordingly and you will have to
dig deeper.
You will have to go furtherinside yourself, all the way
back to your core, at the soullevel, where you can, without a
shadow of a doubt, regardless ofsurface exterior differences of
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behavior, of appearance, ofpreferences, whatever it may be,
you recognize the energeticsignature of the one that you
love.
This is the challenge, andwhile it's a little easier for
some of us than others and I'mnot exactly sure why that is I
think it's because of the waysand maybe the areas in which we
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most need to grow and cravegrowth, because, with my box
turtle, bruce and his soul walkand reincarnation as Io.
It's been very easy.
I recognized him instantly andhe's almost exactly the same.
He looks a little different,he's a little smaller, he's
younger, but in all other wayshe's pretty much the same my
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soul bird, pearl, of 24 years,coming back as Miss Petal.
They're almost completelydifferent.
There are so many differencesIn fact I unpacked that in the
episode on our joyful reunion.
There are so many differencesand it has really challenged me
to go deep, deep, deep within,again and again, day by day by
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day, and anchor back to what Iknow to be true, which is inside
that body that looks nothinglike my Pearl, even a different
gender, different voice,different.
Everything is the soul of mylove and I understand his
reasons for coming back as a sheand for coming back in the form
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that she came back in.
And one of the reasons isbecause Pearl, my soul bird
Pearl, was the animal whobrought me to animal
communication.
He is the only Reiki trainedcockatiel master level, mind you
that my Reiki teachers ever hadand the only one I've ever
heard of, and he was by my sidethroughout every single step in
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my growth and evolution as anintuitive and as a communicator
and as a Reiki master.
So of course he's going to upthe ante for me.
He's going to make it morechallenging for me to dive down
beneath all of those layers ofsurficial doubt, superficial
judgment-based doubt, into theheart of the matter, the core of
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the matter, which is I know you.
I know you and I love you somuch that, if you want to come
back, as someone that I barelywould recognize otherwise, be my
guest.
I just want you back.
And here's the other facet ofthat.
I said there's two facets tothis.
One is to challenge you to grow, and two is because all of the
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memories that you have made withyour soul pet in their old body
happened in your past.
And guess what?
You were different too then.
You were a different, you Sure,when you look in the mirror you
see someone that you recognize.
You had the same basic flavor ofyou.
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Maybe you've evolved a littlebit over the years.
Maybe you've changed a littlebit in your appearance or your
preferences or your passions orinterests or hobbies or
activities.
Maybe your relationships withother beings look a little
different now than they did then.
But basically, when you walk tothe mirror every morning or
when you wake up in your body inyour bed, you still go.
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Yep, it's same old me, butyou're not.
You're different.
I look back 24, now 27 years ago, when Pearl and I first met.
When I actually take myself allthe way back along that
timeline, I realize that thatversion of myself is somebody I
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don't even hardly recognize.
She is so different than who Iam today.
Her energetic signature is thesame.
Yes, she's still me, but she issuch an earlier version of me
that if we passed on the streettoday, I don't know other than
our shared love of animals, ifwe'd have anything in common.
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That's how different she is tome now.
And if I have grown that muchin the last 27 years, 24 years,
when Petal came back to me, if Ihave grown that much in a
quarter of a century, of courseI'm going to need a fresh set of
challenges to continue growingalong that trajectory.
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So if your beloved soul pet waswith you for six months, two
years, five years, 12 years, 24years, consider is it realistic,
is it even wise, is itbeneficial for me to expect or
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to even desire that my pet comeback as who I remember them to
be, when the person they'recoming back to is so very
different.
So, pearl, when I met him, hewas a five-week-old chick.
He was flightless, he hadpermanent wing damage, he would
never be able to fly.
He was tiny, he was terrified,he was a runt, he was scrawny.
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He grew up into a powerhouse.
So of course he's going to comeback as Miss Petal, who is the
largest fully flighted cockatielI've ever seen.
She is right out of the egg,loud, boisterous, sure of
herself, totally confident,totally teaching me, totally
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owning it, like the boss thatshe is.
So if you can take a look at thedifferences that you observe in
the reincarnated body of yoursoul pet, they might make a lot
more sense to you.
If you can put them intoperspective of your shared
timeline throughout life and nowthroughout lives, and now
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throughout lives, you aredifferent.
Of course, they are differenttoo, and this is not something
that everyone in my field agreeson, and there are communicators
out there and I know some ofthem, and they are in practice
and they are taking new clients.
If you are just looking forsomeone who says your soul pet
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will come back and they will beexactly the same and they will
go and they will curl up in thesame spot where they used to
love to take a nap, and theywill sleep in the same way and
everything will be exactly thesame and their body will even
look the same.
They're out there.
So just know, as a PS, as Ishare what I'm about to say,
that not everyone in my fieldagrees.
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And as you listen to me, pleasedo not take my perspective as
your own.
Try it on for size, see whatresonates for you.
I am offering you my insightsfrom the hundreds upon hundreds
of conversations I've had withanimals in all stages of life
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and between lives andreincarnated life, and I'm
sharing what I have experienced,what I have learned from my
teachers, these beautifulanimals who've been willing to
talk with me.
So what I say may or may notland, and I just encourage you
to try it on for size and use itas inspiration to find your own
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truth.
But what I have experienced isthat nobody, and I mean nobody
of any species, chooses to comehere to Earth, which is a school
that includes polarities, fromextreme darkness all the way to
extreme light and every spot inbetween.
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No one chooses to suit up andcome here if they don't have two
things two goals, twointentions.
One, they have something tolearn, something new, some new
way to grow, and entering andinhabiting a physical body is
the best way to serve thatintention, to bring that
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intention to life.
And two, they have something toteach, and again meaning that
entering into a physicalincarnation, inside a 3D body,
is the best method to accomplishthis intention, to see this
intention realized.
So, if you are wearing a body,if you are walking around in one
of these groovy, cool, fullyloaded space suits that we call
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bodies, you are here to learnsomething and you are here to
teach something, and I don'tcare what species you are.
That is my truth, that is myreality, based on what the
animals have taught me, and thatincludes especially
reincarnation, because when wehave that soul bond at that deep
level where we don't wantanyone else, we want one another
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, then we always have some newway in which we can grow and
evolve and recognize thatsometimes it's even in our own
growing, our own learning, ourown evolution that we
effortlessly teach.
That quote from MarianneWilliamson about who are you to
play small.
When you shine your lightbrightly, it gives permission to
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others to do the same.
If that isn't teaching,learning and teaching, I don't
know what is so the animal whocomes back to enjoy a new set of
adventures with you through petreincarnation in their fresh
new body, whether it's veryearly in life, whether it's a
soul walking into an adult bodyor even later in life.
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Those mechanics aside, they arecoming to learn and grow and
they're coming to teach andshare.
That is what I have experienced,and so, even though there are
perspectives that say well,animals are perfect, why would
they ever come here and chooselives of loss or loneliness, or
fear or abuse or suffering?
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And I recorded an entirepodcast episode on that very
question that you can take alisten to it's earlier this
season.
You can search that out.
But the reason is because thepayoff is learning and growing
and teaching and sharing.
And, at the soul level, becauseof your bond, your mutual bond
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of unconditional love that youshare so deeply with one another
.
It is your goal of learning andgrowing and teaching and
sharing, your shared goalLearning something new, teaching
something new is best served ifyou are together, because,
underneath all of that learningand growing and teaching and
sharing, it can get lonely andthere is no better motivator to
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keep going, especially when lifegets a little challenging or a
lot challenging than knowingthat at the end of the day and
at all moments in between, youhave the support of someone who
loves you unconditionally.
So that is pet reincarnation,day-to-day in a nutshell
Understanding that thosedifferences are there for a very
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practical reason which we justunpacked.
They will be there, whether itis the way that their appearance
shows up.
They might have been all brownwith a white patch in the last
life, in their last body, andnow they're all white with a
brown patch.
They might come back as adifferent species.
They might come back as adifferent gender.
They might come back in adifferent stage of life.
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They might come back like myBruce and Io, with very similar
personalities and temperaments.
They might come back as myPearl and Petal, with very
different personalities andtemperaments.
And there's no better or worseor harder or easier.
I don't actually know why somepet parent, pet reincarnation
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reunions.
There are more differences orfewer differences.
I know within myself it has todo with certain lessons that I'm
working on, things that I'veset out on my life lesson, my
bucket list curriculum that Iwant to learn about and also
things I want to teach about.
So it also very much serves meto have very deeply personal
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examples and experiences witheither extreme, so that I can
share and help guide other petparents who are at any point in
between that spectrum ofextremes.
And so just know that if yourreincarnated pet comes back and
they are so very similar, almostidentical, it doesn't mean that
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you haven't chosen a difficultlesson.
It doesn't mean anything really.
It certainly doesn't mean thatthat is the only way that pet
reincarnation can happen, orthat you can know for sure.
Because, as we just talked about, those surficial doubts that
you have are reminders Keeplearning, keep growing, keep
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trusting your gut, keepdeveloping your intuition.
Our planet's frequency ischanging and 3D is not a fun
place to live, and so, if youwant to go where we're going,
you need to learn how to livefrom the inside out, from your
heart, not your head from yourgut, not your cognitive,
analytical left brain.
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And every single day, right inyour own home, right in your own
household, you have plenty ofopportunities to learn that
lesson, to confront, tackle andmove through doubt back to home.
Oh, that's right.
But I know you Be as differentas you like, doesn't bother me a
bit.
I know who you are and you knowwho I am.
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And, once again, we have chosenone another in the same way.
If your reincarnated pet comesback and they are extremely
different in almost every way,it does not mean anything other
than that is the configurationthat best serves you both.
And this is the other thingthat we don't often think about
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really stop to feel into and sitwith as we're on that journey,
that learning and growth journeythat we call the joyful reunion
of pet reincarnation, which isthere's two of us here.
So your pet is also learning torecognize you.
They are navigating theircontinued bond with you, both
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when you doubt who they reallyare, as well as when you know
with every fiber of your beingwho they really are.
And they have come back withtheir particular body, their
particular gender, theirparticular species, their
particular personality andtemperament, because it best
serves them to learn and grow inturn.
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So they have their own reasonsfor the body they've chosen, the
gender they've chosen, thetemperament personality they've
chosen, the species or breedthey've chosen.
That best serves theirobjectives as well.
And that's always an interestingconversation when I get the
opportunity to talk with the petin their newly reincarnated
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body, checking in with themHow's it going so far?
What do you guys need to talkabout?
That is always a good time tojust check in and see where
everybody's at and see whatdoubts are coming up.
How can we work through those?
What do you have to say aboutthat?
Why did you come back this wayor that way, or what's going on
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here?
So there are many, many, many,many fresh opportunities to
continue the conversation, tocontinue the learning journey.
Many of my pet parent clientschoose to come and study animal
communication with me so thatthey can continue these
conversations on their own.
This is not something super,super, duper, extra special woo,
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woo, like I used to think itwas, that only special people
who are born with it can do this.
We can all do this.
We all have the innatebirthright ability, and that's a
topic for a whole differentpodcast episode.
But before we wrap this podcastepisode up, I do want to touch
on the second big facet of whatit's really like living with
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your reincarnated pet day to day.
And this holds true whetheryour reincarnated pet rushes
back into their new body ormaybe takes a more leisurely
journey back to their new body,is that grief happens.
Grief is going to be a playerat the table.
Grief is going to factor intothis mix.
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There are many different reasonsfor why this occurs, and it's
the reason why I created my freepet parent guide to grief, so
that you can understand moredeeply what's happening within
you, to you at the physicallevel, at the mental level, at
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the emotional level, at the soullevel.
Grief doesn't happen in fivelinear steps.
Boy, I used to think that wasit for me.
I was like I'm going tocomplete those steps and we're
going to get done with thisawful feeling and I'm going to
move on with my life.
Well, unfortunately, it doesn'treally work like that.
You've probably alreadydiscovered this as well, this as
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well, and so what grief reallyis at the baseline level is a
biochemical reaction happeningwithin your body system, and it
has to do with why we haveemotions in the first place.
And we only have emotions fortwo reasons One, because they
keep us safe by triggeringcertain actions, or they help us
thrive by triggering certaindifferent action.
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When we have a feeling or anemotion which you can think of
from here forward, if you'regoing to stick with me here on,
let's Talk to Animals.
And when I say emotion, what Imean is energy in motion.
That emotion is pushing us todo something, to take an action,
and the emotion of grief ispushing us to protect ourselves
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because it hurts.
We have lost some essence, somelevel of the relationship we
crave and enjoy.
And what we've lost it's notthe soul connection, but it's
the physical connection, it'sthe kinetic, somatic, tangible
connection with our soul pet,with our love.
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Their body is not here anymore.
We cannot see it, we cannottouch it, we cannot feel it, we
cannot hear it.
We cannot feel it.
We cannot hear it or sense itor smell it.
And to our left brain mind,which is not the intuitive part
of ourselves, just spoiler alert, here we dive into this in
animal communication adventure.
But for our purposes here youjust need to know left brain not
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intuitive, not in the slightest, no intuitive abilities
whatsoever.
The left brain mind takes onelook at that scenario and says
body's gone, the pet's gone,you're in danger, lock it down,
shut down.
And that's the grief response.
Your body pumps out mega loadsof adrenaline and cortisol.
So suddenly you are flooded.
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And because our biology has notcaught up to our technology yet
, when that happens in the body,everything in your fight or
flight says there's asaber-toothed tiger behind me
and it's hungry and it's goingto eat me for lunch.
It doesn't just happen untilyou either outrun the tiger or
it outruns you.
It keeps happening andhappening and happening because
your pet's body is gone.
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It's gone today, it's gonetomorrow, it's gone the next day
, it's gone next week, it's gonenext year.
Grief is a self-perpetuatingcycle because our original
biochemistry that's supposed toprotect us in times of
discomfort, of which grief is anextreme form, has basically
malfunctioned because it doesn'tknow what to do with death and
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loss.
That's not the same as asaber-toothed tiger, but the
tiger's as close as it can cometo a match, and so it just keeps
pumping out more adrenaline andmore cortisol.
That just keeps you stuck infight, flight or freeze.
And in my experience it usuallytakes three to four weeks not
hours, not days, but weeks,sometimes a little bit longer
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for your biochemistry to get themessage that there is no tiger,
nobody's coming to eat you.
You didn't die yesterday, youdidn't die last hour, you didn't
die a minute ago, you're notgoing to die now.
And suddenly your body is ableto start processing out all that
excess adrenaline, cortisol,all the lingering toxicity that
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those hormones have created, asthey've built up in your body,
the dehydration, thesleeplessness, the overwhelm of
the grief experience and youfinally start to come to after
three to four weeks.
Sometimes it can take a fewmonths before this happens and
it has everything to do with theparticular type of experience
that you had with your pet attheir end of life transition and
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the things that led up to thatand your temperament and other
things that are going on in yourlife.
So it's not to say that ifyou're not done in four weeks
there's something wrong, butjust understand that that grief
process takes time.
My petal came back to me in twomonths, almost on the dot, and
so I had just lost my soul.
Bird of 24 years, 24 yearstogether joined at the beak.
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I raised him, syringe, fed himfrom a five-week-old chick and
two months later he's back.
As Petal Was, I still grievingMore than I can even express.
The day Petal came home, I wentout in the backyard and sat by
Pearl's grave and I cried.
It's very, very hard.
So it's not always optimal torush into pet reincarnation.
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We need to give ourselves alittle time to get through the
grief firestorm.
Now I want to be clear.
This does not mean that youneed to wait three or four weeks
or until your grief is a gleamin the eye before you can talk
with your pet.
They are ready right away.
This is another area ofsomewhat controversial
disagreement in the intuitivefield.
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But in my experience theanimal's soul is immediately
available and their firstpriority is to check on their
love, you, to reconnect.
My pearl broke through my griefthat very afternoon and it was
very sudden, very unexpected,very chaotic.
He broke through that veryafternoon, gave me very clear
instructions for exactly whathis plans were to come back and
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I again share that story in adifferent episode on my story of
how Pearl became Petal.
So you can look that up.
But the animals are alwaysavailable.
So it doesn't mean that youhave to wait that long to talk
with them.
But it can be helpful to add ina little lead time for that
grief firestorm to ease, so thatyou can hear yourself again,
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you can breathe again.
You've got enoughdetoxification, you've gotten
that cortisol out of your body.
So you are rehydrating, you arereoxygenating, you are
returning to a baseline, healthylevel of functioning.
Nobody's coming today to eatyou for lunch.
That's a pretty good feeling.
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So we've got that grief goingon and it can last for some time
.
And one of the primary reasonsit can last for some time is
because we don't recover fromgrief Another unpopular opinion.
We don't recover from grief.
We don't even heal from grief.
We evolve through grief.
Grief in removing that primaryrelationship, or at least the
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body thereof, in removing ourtangible access to the body, the
physical presence of the one welove it changes us forever.
We will never be the same as wewere a moment ago, whether it
was a peaceful, even joyfulpassing, whether it was even
wished for because our pet wassuffering and we wanted that to
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end.
We're forever changed.
Something has happened that cannever unhappen and it has
changed us profoundly.
And so there's not just a grieffor your pet, but there's a
grief for you, because you'vegot to get to know yourself all
over again.
You've got to meet yourself asyou are now, and as you re-meet
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yourself you will discoversomebody stronger, braver, wiser
even than you suspected wasthere.
But this takes time Goingthrough the grief process itself
and not dying from it.
There is such a thing asheartbreak syndrome.
I've had more than one of mypet parent clients tell me that
they had to go to the hospital,to the emergency room, because
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they thought they were dying.
Heartbreak syndrome happenswhen the hormonal dysregulation
triggers heart attack-likesymptoms.
But it is emotional, it's aboutthat energy and motion through
the body and you don't know thatyou're not having a heart
attack.
And even the doctors don't knowuntil they take a look after
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the fact what happened.
So be mindful of the challengethat you have taken on by
signing up for an incarnationwith someone you love so deeply,
who is absolutely going to passbefore you do.
And we set all this up duringour life, between lives,
including whether there might bemultiple incarnations.
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Of course, we always have freewill.
Nothing is set in stone.
It's not like we've got abullet point list.
It's more like a if thishappens then that kind of a flow
chart sort of a thing, withmajor benchmarks and, hopefully,
milestones along the way.
But it's always been by designto help you fully embody the
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wealth within you, the vaststorehouse of amazement that
only grief will uncover.
It's like you survive, that youcan survive anything and, more
importantly, you can learn tothrive.
One of my earliest mentors inlife once said everybody talks
about their sadness and, yes, ittakes a lot of strength to hold
sadness about their sadness.
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And yes, it takes a lot ofstrength to hold sadness, but
nobody ever talks about how muchstrength it takes to hold joy.
So in the grief journey and thegrief experience there is
implicit for those of us who areawake and aware and listening
and keen to do the work ofevolving through it, because the
only other option isn'tpleasant, it's just staying
stuck, and I've seen that too.
So the invitation is if I'mstrong enough to survive, I am
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definitely strong enough tothrive.
So let's pick that, why don'twe?
And that's the moment when it'sthe right time to begin
pondering pet reincarnation, andI will talk about that in a
different episode, because thisone has gone long enough and I
do like to keep my episodes to areasonable timeframe.
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So just understand life withyour reincarnated pet is going
to be the same, yet different,plus grief.
So you have to allow for thegrief journey to continue, to
unfold.
Understanding you're grievingthe loss of the memory of all of
the years or months, or evendays that you had with your
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beloved before they passed.
You're grieving the old you andthe old them who is no more.
You're grieving this strangerwho's suddenly walking around
wearing your space suit.
You don't recognize him or herright now because you're just
becoming acquainted with howstrong you are and how you're
still here and there's still somuch potential.
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But right now you're justgridlocked in this biochemical
firestorm that you're not surehow to navigate.
And you're grieving yourselfbecause, for most of us, our
brains do a pretty good job overtime of filtering out the bad
and remembering the good.
So most of us, at the end ofour life, we will default to
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remembering the good stuff.
That's protective.
It's why it is said that timeis the great healer.
But it takes time to get there.
And this is the process that wego through to get there, which
is the grieving and the lettinggo, and then the choosing joy,
the choosing to hold onto thegood stuff and release all the
rest.
So you're going through all ofthis, even while you're getting
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to know your reincarnated pet intheir new body, and they are
getting to know you as you arenow post their loss in your same
body.
There is a lot going on.
Even if your reincarnated petcame back and they were to the
I's and the T's the same, thatalone would still change them
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because you are changed.
You are not the same.
You have grieved, you have lostand you have lived through it
and hopefully you are nowevolving through it.
And you've gone through thistremendous learning and growth
journey of evolution, throughthis soul awakening that we call
pet reincarnation.
So you're stronger, you're moreintuitive, you're more tuned in
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with yourself than you everwere in the past.
So you have changed.
Is it any wonder that you willthen experience, even if your
pet is, to the letter, exactlythe same?
You will still experience thatthey have changed because you
have changed.
So that's the fly on the wallperspective a day in the life of
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living with your reincarnatedpet.
So there's the joyful reunionand then there's the continued
evolution.
Let me know what questions youhave after giving this episode a
listen or two.
Perhaps Let me know what elseyou'd like me to talk about on
pet reincarnation, on grief, onother topics.
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new episode every two weeks onWednesday mornings.
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And until next time, I send youall my love.
Okay, bye for now.
Welcome back to :et's Talk to Animals.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive and anintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
communication teacher withanimallovelanguages.
com.
However, for our purposes today, I am serving as your friendly
neighborhood hostess and guidefor the Let's Talk to Animals
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podcast, where we unpack,uncover and discover together
all that there is to learn aboutinterspecies communication and
conversation.
What's on the conversationaldocket today?
Well, I decided it's time totalk about what it's really like
to live with your reincarnatedpet.
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So let's dive in Now.
For those of you who've been apart of let's Talk to Animals
for a while, you know that I amliving with not one, but two
reincarnated pets.
I have shared their individualstories in much greater detail
in other podcast episodes.
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You can take a look backthrough the archives for how Mr
Pearl became Petal and theglorious story of my
reincarnated soul walk-in boxturtle Bruce, who became Io.
So you can enjoy those episodesat another time.
But I get a lot of questionsfrom my one-to-one pet parent
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clients and my animalcommunication students about
what is it really likeday-to-day living with your
reincarnated pet.
And isn't that just thequestion to end all questions
right.
So that's what I'm tackling foryou today, speaking from my
personal experiences, as well asmy observations and my case
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files helping you reunite withyour reincarnated pets through
the joyful reunion.
And the first thing that I canshare about what it's like to
live with your reincarnated petis it's the same, yet different.
So let's unpack that a littlebit.
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After all, when we go throughthe process of reuniting with
our reincarnated pet, we arelooking for certain signs,
certain hallmarks, we gather apacket of clues.
I can help you do that.
If you are, in your heart,longing for your reincarnated
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pet to return to you and you'renot sure exactly how to go about
it, I have a free resourceguide and, of course, we can
schedule a session and talkabout that.
But if you're new to this wholewonderful world of reincarnated
pets, you might not be awarethat what, in my experience,
typically happens is that we setthe intention first yes, I want
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to reunite with my reincarnatedpet, I want to be with this
animal, I want to share my lifewith this particular soul and I
want them to come back in a newbody.
That kicks off the joyfulreunions process, and what
happens, of course, is that youhave made a choice and there are
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many, many choices that you canmake.
When a beloved pet needs to passout of their physical body for
any reason age, a suddenaccident, an illness for some
reason, their current body hasbecome uninhabitable and they
need to leave it.
That doesn't mean that theyhave died.
It means that their body hasdied.
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Their energy is still sentient,aware and just as alive, in
fact, perhaps more alive than itever was, while it was
contained within the physical 3Dbody.
So you have made a decisionthat you are searching for a
particular soul, a particularbeing, what I call a particular
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energetic signature, a heartprint, someone that you will
recognize, someone who willrecognize you.
This is very different from theprocess of choosing to adopt a
new pet, a different pet, adifferent energetic signature, a
different soul occupying a newbody.
It's very different from thechoice that some bereaved pet
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parents make to clone their petusing DNA from the previous body
.
It's very different than thechoice some of my pet parent
clients have made to not getanother animal because of
whatever their personal reasonsor life circumstances may be.
You have many, many choices.
You can also volunteer withanimals as another fulfilling
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way to have that interspeciescontact.
But no, you have not chosen anyof these options.
You have chosen petreincarnation.
Congratulations, because, guesswhat, you've just signed up for
a soul awakening.
You probably didn't realize thatwhen you said, yes, I want the
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pet reincarnation option, youcheck that box.
You probably didn't realize youwere signing up for a soul
awakening and evolution from 3Dto 5D consciousness and a crash
course in the energetics of whatEinstein called the law of
conservation of energy, whichbasically states that energy is
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neither created nor destroyed,but it can be, and it is
transmuted and transformed.
So what's really going onbehind the scenes when you check
that box that you want your petto come back and they also
check that box on their side,that they want to come back and
come back specifically to you ina new body?
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What you've signed up for is acrash course in physics Yay,
quantum physics, the law ofconservation of energy.
The energy that was yourbeloved pet in their last body
is now going to be your belovedpet in their new body, and your
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mission, if you choose to acceptit, is to recognize that unique
energetic signature, thatunique energy that was them in
their last body and will be themagain in their new body and is
them right now in their ethericform.
Your challenge is to recognizethem.
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So what happens when I wastalking about those little
packets of clues is whether youdo this on your own.
I did this on my own, of course.
Clues is whether you do this onyour own.
I did this on my own, of course.
I am a trained animalcommunicator, so I'm able to
send and receive two-waytelepathic and intuitive
messages with animals, and soI've been able to navigate this
process within myself for myself.
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But often what happens is you'llhire someone like me who can
help you make that telepathicand intuitive connection with
your pet in their etheric body,in their life, between lives, as
Dr Michael Newton sobeautifully put it, and as your
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go-between, as your interspecieslanguage translator, as your
interspecies language translator, I can help you gather what I
have come to call a littlepacket of clues.
And this little packet of cluesis like your intuitive
scavenger hunt Gives you littlebits and pieces and details,
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signs, symbols, things thatwould be meaningful to you, that
might not be at all meaningfulto me or someone else, but
between you and your pet, theselittle tidbits, these little
clues, have meaning.
There's always a reason foreach clue that is given,
although typically we have tohold them carefully in terms of
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following each one literally andinstead recognize them as
symbolic breadcrumbs.
So it might pan out that, yes,your puppy does end up getting
born into a brown body with awhite patch on the left side,
just behind the ear, or therecould be another brown puppy
with a white patch behind theear in your puppy's litter, or
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that could just be the image ofthe puppy in the photo that you
see.
That sends you to the shelterwhere you meet your reincarnated
pet in their actual body, whichlooks nothing like a brown
puppy with a white spot behindthe ear.
And this is an actual storyfrom my case files.
So that's just an example.
Of course, we're not here todelve into exactly how the
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packets of clues work and how towork with them.
If that is something you'reinterested in, I would highly
recommend that you schedule asession and we can walk through
that for you and your pet.
But just understand, you'reworking with an intention, which
is I want to reunite, through ajoyful reunion, with my soul
pet in their new body.
You're gathering a littlepacket of clues just signs,
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symbols, information to help putblinders on your intuition a
little bit, so you don't have tofilter 3 billion bits of data
every single day as it flowsthrough you, but rather you can
be on the lookout for certainpatterns in the chaos.
And that's the job of yourreticular activating system and
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it's the foundation of howmanifesting works.
And manifesting is a huge partof pet reincarnation and I teach
that inside animalcommunication adventure.
So if you're interested in that, it's absolutely a passion of
mine to teach the mechanics ofhow all of this comes together.
But back to our topic today,which is what it's really like
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to live with your reincarnatedpet.
You have basically said yes toa scavenger hunt, an intuitive
scavenger hunt, and at the endof that scavenger hunt you have
the joyful reunion with yoursoul pet.
And so, yes, there will be somethings that will be very
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familiar, the same.
Recently I talked with one ofmy pet parent clients who just
met her sole pet in their newlyreincarnated body and she said
one of the ways that I knew isbecause the only dog I've ever
had that nipped at my heelsright from puppyhood was my
reincarnated dog, and in herlast body she did this and in
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her new body.
She does this so it's notalways the traits that you
remember with the most fondnessthat they will use to let you
know.
Yes, it's really me, mom or dador guardian.
There will be little things andsometimes big things that are
just the same.
Another one of my recent joyfulreunions my pet parent client
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actually brought a toy that hadbelonged to her reincarnated pet
in his last body.
She brought the toy and whenshe rolled it towards the puppy
she thought was her reincarnatedpet.
He jumped on it and wouldn'tlet it go and would not share it
with anyone else.
And so you can see, they mightplay with the same favorite toy,
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they might curl up in the sameway when they go to bed they
might nip at your heels.
They might have so manydifferent characteristics that
you recall from your lastincarnation together.
But there will also bedifferences.
This is so key In fact.
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If I had to sum up what it'sreally like to live with your
reincarnated pet really likeday-to-day brass tacks, plain
speak here I would say it's thesame yet different, and there's
grief to factor in.
So there will be differencesand there will be grief, and
we're going to tackle those inthat order.
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The first thing to understandand I've experienced this both
with my petal, who is thereincarnation of my soul bird of
24 years, pearl, and also withIo, my soul walk-in
reincarnation of my beloved boxturtle Bruce.
He's back as box turtle Io.
I've experienced this with bothof these.
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There are differences that Itruly feel and believe are set
up to maintain the soulawakening and the evolution and
the unfolding of my intuitiveawareness.
Because what happens with us is,if we just get exactly what we
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want, exactly when we want it,over and over and over again,
how much do you think weactually grow?
How motivated do you think weare to grow?
Not very right, I know I'm not.
If I'm comfortable and happyand they're serving my favorite
food and I'm well entertainedand I'm healthy and things are
vibing along, no need to changeanything here.
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I'm good.
But if there's wavering, ifthere's doubt, if there's
confusion, if there's indecision, I have to do something to
break through that, to get backto the happy, joyful, trusting,
peaceful inner space that Iprefer.
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So when you're saying yes to petreincarnation, when you're
saying yes to the joyful reunion, just understand that there
will be things that will be thesame, yet there will be things
that will be different, andthere's two reasons for this.
One is what I just talked about, that we don't grow if we're
not asked to stretch outside ofour comfort zone.
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So you might be so sure, or 95%sure, even 89% sure, when you
say yes to your reincarnated petin their new body, and maybe
they come home with you andmaybe they're very similar,
maybe they're sort of similar,maybe they're really exactly
identical one day, and then notso much the next.
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And what happens is your innertrust in your own intuition as
your guide will waveraccordingly and you will have to
dig deeper.
You will have to go furtherinside yourself, all the way
back to your core, at the soullevel, where you can, without a
shadow of a doubt, regardless ofsurface exterior differences of
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behavior, of appearance, ofpreferences, whatever it may be,
you recognize the energeticsignature of the one that you
love.
This is the challenge, andwhile it's a little easier for
some of us than others and I'mnot exactly sure why that is I
think it's because of the waysand maybe the areas in which we
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most need to grow and cravegrowth, because, with my box
turtle, bruce and his soul walkand reincarnation as Io.
It's been very easy.
I recognized him instantly andhe's almost exactly the same.
He looks a little different,he's a little smaller, he's
younger, but in all other wayshe's pretty much the same my
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soul bird, pearl, of 24 years,coming back as Miss Petal.
They're almost completelydifferent.
There are so many differencesIn fact I unpacked that in the
episode on our joyful reunion.
There are so many differencesand it has really challenged me
to go deep, deep, deep within,again and again, day by day by
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day, and anchor back to what Iknow to be true, which is inside
that body that looks nothinglike my Pearl, even a different
gender, different voice,different.
Everything is the soul of mylove and I understand his
reasons for coming back as a sheand for coming back in the form
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that she came back in.
And one of the reasons isbecause Pearl, my soul bird
Pearl, was the animal whobrought me to animal
communication.
He is the only Reiki trainedcockatiel master level, mind you
that my Reiki teachers ever hadand the only one I've ever
heard of, and he was by my sidethroughout every single step in
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my growth and evolution as anintuitive and as a communicator
and as a Reiki master.
So of course he's going to upthe ante for me.
He's going to make it morechallenging for me to dive down
beneath all of those layers ofsurficial doubt, superficial
judgment-based doubt, into theheart of the matter, the core of
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the matter, which is I know you.
I know you and I love you somuch that, if you want to come
back, as someone that I barelywould recognize otherwise, be my
guest.
I just want you back.
And here's the other facet ofthat.
I said there's two facets tothis.
One is to challenge you to grow, and two is because all of the
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memories that you have made withyour soul pet in their old body
happened in your past.
And guess what?
You were different too then.
You were a different, you Sure,when you look in the mirror you
see someone that you recognize.
You had the same basic flavor ofyou.
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Maybe you've evolved a littlebit over the years.
Maybe you've changed a littlebit in your appearance or your
preferences or your passions orinterests or hobbies or
activities.
Maybe your relationships withother beings look a little
different now than they did then.
But basically, when you walk tothe mirror every morning or
when you wake up in your body inyour bed, you still go.
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Yep, it's same old me, butyou're not.
You're different.
I look back 24, now 27 years ago, when Pearl and I first met.
When I actually take myself allthe way back along that
timeline, I realize that thatversion of myself is somebody I
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don't even hardly recognize.
She is so different than who Iam today.
Her energetic signature is thesame.
Yes, she's still me, but she issuch an earlier version of me
that if we passed on the streettoday, I don't know other than
our shared love of animals, ifwe'd have anything in common.
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That's how different she is tome now.
And if I have grown that muchin the last 27 years, 24 years,
when Petal came back to me, if Ihave grown that much in a
quarter of a century, of courseI'm going to need a fresh set of
challenges to continue growingalong that trajectory.
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So if your beloved soul pet waswith you for six months, two
years, five years, 12 years, 24years, consider is it realistic,
is it even wise, is itbeneficial for me to expect or
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to even desire that my pet comeback as who I remember them to
be, when the person they'recoming back to is so very
different.
So, pearl, when I met him, hewas a five-week-old chick.
He was flightless, he hadpermanent wing damage, he would
never be able to fly.
He was tiny, he was terrified,he was a runt, he was scrawny.
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He grew up into a powerhouse.
So of course he's going to comeback as Miss Petal, who is the
largest fully flighted cockatielI've ever seen.
She is right out of the egg,loud, boisterous, sure of
herself, totally confident,totally teaching me, totally
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owning it, like the boss thatshe is.
So if you can take a look at thedifferences that you observe in
the reincarnated body of yoursoul pet, they might make a lot
more sense to you.
If you can put them intoperspective of your shared
timeline throughout life and nowthroughout lives, and now
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throughout lives, you aredifferent.
Of course, they are differenttoo, and this is not something
that everyone in my field agreeson, and there are communicators
out there and I know some ofthem, and they are in practice
and they are taking new clients.
If you are just looking forsomeone who says your soul pet
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will come back and they will beexactly the same and they will
go and they will curl up in thesame spot where they used to
love to take a nap, and theywill sleep in the same way and
everything will be exactly thesame and their body will even
look the same.
They're out there.
So just know, as a PS, as Ishare what I'm about to say,
that not everyone in my fieldagrees.
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And as you listen to me, pleasedo not take my perspective as
your own.
Try it on for size, see whatresonates for you.
I am offering you my insightsfrom the hundreds upon hundreds
of conversations I've had withanimals in all stages of life
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and between lives andreincarnated life, and I'm
sharing what I have experienced,what I have learned from my
teachers, these beautifulanimals who've been willing to
talk with me.
So what I say may or may notland, and I just encourage you
to try it on for size and use itas inspiration to find your own
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truth.
But what I have experienced isthat nobody, and I mean nobody
of any species, chooses to comehere to Earth, which is a school
that includes polarities, fromextreme darkness all the way to
extreme light and every spot inbetween.
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No one chooses to suit up andcome here if they don't have two
things two goals, twointentions.
One, they have something tolearn, something new, some new
way to grow, and entering andinhabiting a physical body is
the best way to serve thatintention, to bring that
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intention to life.
And two, they have something toteach, and again meaning that
entering into a physicalincarnation, inside a 3D body,
is the best method to accomplishthis intention, to see this
intention realized.
So, if you are wearing a body,if you are walking around in one
of these groovy, cool, fullyloaded space suits that we call
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bodies, you are here to learnsomething and you are here to
teach something, and I don'tcare what species you are.
That is my truth, that is myreality, based on what the
animals have taught me, and thatincludes especially
reincarnation, because when wehave that soul bond at that deep
level where we don't wantanyone else, we want one another
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, then we always have some newway in which we can grow and
evolve and recognize thatsometimes it's even in our own
growing, our own learning, ourown evolution that we
effortlessly teach.
That quote from MarianneWilliamson about who are you to
play small.
When you shine your lightbrightly, it gives permission to
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others to do the same.
If that isn't teaching,learning and teaching, I don't
know what is so the animal whocomes back to enjoy a new set of
adventures with you through petreincarnation in their fresh
new body, whether it's veryearly in life, whether it's a
soul walking into an adult bodyor even later in life.
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Those mechanics aside, they arecoming to learn and grow and
they're coming to teach andshare.
That is what I have experienced,and so, even though there are
perspectives that say well,animals are perfect, why would
they ever come here and chooselives of loss or loneliness, or
fear or abuse or suffering?
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And I recorded an entirepodcast episode on that very
question that you can take alisten to it's earlier this
season.
You can search that out.
But the reason is because thepayoff is learning and growing
and teaching and sharing.
And, at the soul level, becauseof your bond, your mutual bond
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of unconditional love that youshare so deeply with one another
.
It is your goal of learning andgrowing and teaching and
sharing, your shared goalLearning something new, teaching
something new is best served ifyou are together, because,
underneath all of that learningand growing and teaching and
sharing, it can get lonely andthere is no better motivator to
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keep going, especially when lifegets a little challenging or a
lot challenging than knowingthat at the end of the day and
at all moments in between, youhave the support of someone who
loves you unconditionally.
So that is pet reincarnation,day-to-day in a nutshell
Understanding that thosedifferences are there for a very
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practical reason which we justunpacked.
They will be there, whether itis the way that their appearance
shows up.
They might have been all brownwith a white patch in the last
life, in their last body, andnow they're all white with a
brown patch.
They might come back as adifferent species.
They might come back as adifferent gender.
They might come back in adifferent stage of life.
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They might come back like myBruce and Io, with very similar
personalities and temperaments.
They might come back as myPearl and Petal, with very
different personalities andtemperaments.
And there's no better or worseor harder or easier.
I don't actually know why somepet parent, pet reincarnation
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reunions.
There are more differences orfewer differences.
I know within myself it has todo with certain lessons that I'm
working on, things that I'veset out on my life lesson, my
bucket list curriculum that Iwant to learn about and also
things I want to teach about.
So it also very much serves meto have very deeply personal
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examples and experiences witheither extreme, so that I can
share and help guide other petparents who are at any point in
between that spectrum ofextremes.
And so just know that if yourreincarnated pet comes back and
they are so very similar, almostidentical, it doesn't mean that
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you haven't chosen a difficultlesson.
It doesn't mean anything really.
It certainly doesn't mean thatthat is the only way that pet
reincarnation can happen, orthat you can know for sure.
Because, as we just talked about, those surficial doubts that
you have are reminders Keeplearning, keep growing, keep
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trusting your gut, keepdeveloping your intuition.
Our planet's frequency ischanging and 3D is not a fun
place to live, and so, if youwant to go where we're going,
you need to learn how to livefrom the inside out, from your
heart, not your head from yourgut, not your cognitive,
analytical left brain.
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And every single day, right inyour own home, right in your own
household, you have plenty ofopportunities to learn that
lesson, to confront, tackle andmove through doubt back to home.
Oh, that's right.
But I know you Be as differentas you like, doesn't bother me a
bit.
I know who you are and you knowwho I am.
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And, once again, we have chosenone another in the same way.
If your reincarnated pet comesback and they are extremely
different in almost every way,it does not mean anything other
than that is the configurationthat best serves you both.
And this is the other thingthat we don't often think about
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really stop to feel into and sitwith as we're on that journey,
that learning and growth journeythat we call the joyful reunion
of pet reincarnation, which isthere's two of us here.
So your pet is also learning torecognize you.
They are navigating theircontinued bond with you, both
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when you doubt who they reallyare, as well as when you know
with every fiber of your beingwho they really are.
And they have come back withtheir particular body, their
particular gender, theirparticular species, their
particular personality andtemperament, because it best
serves them to learn and grow inturn.
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So they have their own reasonsfor the body they've chosen, the
gender they've chosen, thetemperament personality they've
chosen, the species or breedthey've chosen.
That best serves theirobjectives as well.
And that's always an interestingconversation when I get the
opportunity to talk with the petin their newly reincarnated
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body, checking in with themHow's it going so far?
What do you guys need to talkabout?
That is always a good time tojust check in and see where
everybody's at and see whatdoubts are coming up.
How can we work through those?
What do you have to say aboutthat?
Why did you come back this wayor that way, or what's going on
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here?
So there are many, many, many,many fresh opportunities to
continue the conversation, tocontinue the learning journey.
Many of my pet parent clientschoose to come and study animal
communication with me so thatthey can continue these
conversations on their own.
This is not something super,super, duper, extra special woo,
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woo, like I used to think itwas, that only special people
who are born with it can do this.
We can all do this.
We all have the innatebirthright ability, and that's a
topic for a whole differentpodcast episode.
But before we wrap this podcastepisode up, I do want to touch
on the second big facet of whatit's really like living with
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your reincarnated pet day to day.
And this holds true whetheryour reincarnated pet rushes
back into their new body ormaybe takes a more leisurely
journey back to their new body,is that grief happens.
Grief is going to be a playerat the table.
Grief is going to factor intothis mix.
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There are many different reasonsfor why this occurs, and it's
the reason why I created my freepet parent guide to grief, so
that you can understand moredeeply what's happening within
you, to you at the physicallevel, at the mental level, at
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the emotional level, at the soullevel.
Grief doesn't happen in fivelinear steps.
Boy, I used to think that wasit for me.
I was like I'm going tocomplete those steps and we're
going to get done with thisawful feeling and I'm going to
move on with my life.
Well, unfortunately, it doesn'treally work like that.
You've probably alreadydiscovered this as well, this as
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well, and so what grief reallyis at the baseline level is a
biochemical reaction happeningwithin your body system, and it
has to do with why we haveemotions in the first place.
And we only have emotions fortwo reasons One, because they
keep us safe by triggeringcertain actions, or they help us
thrive by triggering certaindifferent action.
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When we have a feeling or anemotion which you can think of
from here forward, if you'regoing to stick with me here on,
let's Talk to Animals.
And when I say emotion, what Imean is energy in motion.
That emotion is pushing us todo something, to take an action,
and the emotion of grief ispushing us to protect ourselves
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because it hurts.
We have lost some essence, somelevel of the relationship we
crave and enjoy.
And what we've lost it's notthe soul connection, but it's
the physical connection, it'sthe kinetic, somatic, tangible
connection with our soul pet,with our love.
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Their body is not here anymore.
We cannot see it, we cannottouch it, we cannot feel it, we
cannot hear it.
We cannot feel it.
We cannot hear it or sense itor smell it.
And to our left brain mind,which is not the intuitive part
of ourselves, just spoiler alert, here we dive into this in
animal communication adventure.
But for our purposes here youjust need to know left brain not
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intuitive, not in the slightest, no intuitive abilities
whatsoever.
The left brain mind takes onelook at that scenario and says
body's gone, the pet's gone,you're in danger, lock it down,
shut down.
And that's the grief response.
Your body pumps out mega loadsof adrenaline and cortisol.
So suddenly you are flooded.
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And because our biology has notcaught up to our technology yet
, when that happens in the body,everything in your fight or
flight says there's asaber-toothed tiger behind me
and it's hungry and it's goingto eat me for lunch.
It doesn't just happen untilyou either outrun the tiger or
it outruns you.
It keeps happening andhappening and happening because
your pet's body is gone.
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It's gone today, it's gonetomorrow, it's gone the next day
, it's gone next week, it's gonenext year.
Grief is a self-perpetuatingcycle because our original
biochemistry that's supposed toprotect us in times of
discomfort, of which grief is anextreme form, has basically
malfunctioned because it doesn'tknow what to do with death and
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loss.
That's not the same as asaber-toothed tiger, but the
tiger's as close as it can cometo a match, and so it just keeps
pumping out more adrenaline andmore cortisol.
That just keeps you stuck infight, flight or freeze.
And in my experience it usuallytakes three to four weeks not
hours, not days, but weeks,sometimes a little bit longer
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for your biochemistry to get themessage that there is no tiger,
nobody's coming to eat you.
You didn't die yesterday, youdidn't die last hour, you didn't
die a minute ago, you're notgoing to die now.
And suddenly your body is ableto start processing out all that
excess adrenaline, cortisol,all the lingering toxicity that
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those hormones have created, asthey've built up in your body,
the dehydration, thesleeplessness, the overwhelm of
the grief experience and youfinally start to come to after
three to four weeks.
Sometimes it can take a fewmonths before this happens and
it has everything to do with theparticular type of experience
that you had with your pet attheir end of life transition and
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the things that led up to thatand your temperament and other
things that are going on in yourlife.
So it's not to say that ifyou're not done in four weeks
there's something wrong, butjust understand that that grief
process takes time.
My petal came back to me in twomonths, almost on the dot, and
so I had just lost my soul.
Bird of 24 years, 24 yearstogether joined at the beak.
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I raised him, syringe, fed himfrom a five-week-old chick and
two months later he's back.
As Petal Was, I still grievingMore than I can even express.
The day Petal came home, I wentout in the backyard and sat by
Pearl's grave and I cried.
It's very, very hard.
So it's not always optimal torush into pet reincarnation.
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We need to give ourselves alittle time to get through the
grief firestorm.
Now I want to be clear.
This does not mean that youneed to wait three or four weeks
or until your grief is a gleamin the eye before you can talk
with your pet.
They are ready right away.
This is another area ofsomewhat controversial
disagreement in the intuitivefield.
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But in my experience theanimal's soul is immediately
available and their firstpriority is to check on their
love, you, to reconnect.
My pearl broke through my griefthat very afternoon and it was
very sudden, very unexpected,very chaotic.
He broke through that veryafternoon, gave me very clear
instructions for exactly whathis plans were to come back and
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I again share that story in adifferent episode on my story of
how Pearl became Petal.
So you can look that up.
But the animals are alwaysavailable.
So it doesn't mean that youhave to wait that long to talk
with them.
But it can be helpful to add ina little lead time for that
grief firestorm to ease, so thatyou can hear yourself again,
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you can breathe again.
You've got enoughdetoxification, you've gotten
that cortisol out of your body.
So you are rehydrating, you arereoxygenating, you are
returning to a baseline, healthylevel of functioning.
Nobody's coming today to eatyou for lunch.
That's a pretty good feeling.
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So we've got that grief goingon and it can last for some time
.
And one of the primary reasonsit can last for some time is
because we don't recover fromgrief Another unpopular opinion.
We don't recover from grief.
We don't even heal from grief.
We evolve through grief.
Grief in removing that primaryrelationship, or at least the
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body thereof, in removing ourtangible access to the body, the
physical presence of the one welove it changes us forever.
We will never be the same as wewere a moment ago, whether it
was a peaceful, even joyfulpassing, whether it was even
wished for because our pet wassuffering and we wanted that to
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end.
We're forever changed.
Something has happened that cannever unhappen and it has
changed us profoundly.
And so there's not just a grieffor your pet, but there's a
grief for you, because you'vegot to get to know yourself all
over again.
You've got to meet yourself asyou are now, and as you re-meet
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yourself you will discoversomebody stronger, braver, wiser
even than you suspected wasthere.
But this takes time Goingthrough the grief process itself
and not dying from it.
There is such a thing asheartbreak syndrome.
I've had more than one of mypet parent clients tell me that
they had to go to the hospital,to the emergency room, because
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they thought they were dying.
Heartbreak syndrome happenswhen the hormonal dysregulation
triggers heart attack-likesymptoms.
But it is emotional, it's aboutthat energy and motion through
the body and you don't know thatyou're not having a heart
attack.
And even the doctors don't knowuntil they take a look after
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the fact what happened.
So be mindful of the challengethat you have taken on by
signing up for an incarnationwith someone you love so deeply,
who is absolutely going to passbefore you do.
And we set all this up duringour life, between lives,
including whether there might bemultiple incarnations.
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Of course, we always have freewill.
Nothing is set in stone.
It's not like we've got abullet point list.
It's more like a if thishappens then that kind of a flow
chart sort of a thing, withmajor benchmarks and, hopefully,
milestones along the way.
But it's always been by designto help you fully embody the
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wealth within you, the vaststorehouse of amazement that
only grief will uncover.
It's like you survive, that youcan survive anything and, more
importantly, you can learn tothrive.
One of my earliest mentors inlife once said everybody talks
about their sadness and, yes, ittakes a lot of strength to hold
sadness about their sadness.
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And yes, it takes a lot ofstrength to hold sadness, but
nobody ever talks about how muchstrength it takes to hold joy.
So in the grief journey and thegrief experience there is
implicit for those of us who areawake and aware and listening
and keen to do the work ofevolving through it, because the
only other option isn'tpleasant, it's just staying
stuck, and I've seen that too.
So the invitation is if I'mstrong enough to survive, I am
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definitely strong enough tothrive.
So let's pick that, why don'twe?
And that's the moment when it'sthe right time to begin
pondering pet reincarnation, andI will talk about that in a
different episode, because thisone has gone long enough and I
do like to keep my episodes to areasonable timeframe.
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So just understand life withyour reincarnated pet is going
to be the same, yet different,plus grief.
So you have to allow for thegrief journey to continue, to
unfold.
Understanding you're grievingthe loss of the memory of all of
the years or months, or evendays that you had with your
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beloved before they passed.
You're grieving the old you andthe old them who is no more.
You're grieving this strangerwho's suddenly walking around
wearing your space suit.
You don't recognize him or herright now because you're just
becoming acquainted with howstrong you are and how you're
still here and there's still somuch potential.
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But right now you're justgridlocked in this biochemical
firestorm that you're not surehow to navigate.
And you're grieving yourselfbecause, for most of us, our
brains do a pretty good job overtime of filtering out the bad
and remembering the good.
So most of us, at the end ofour life, we will default to
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remembering the good stuff.
That's protective.
It's why it is said that timeis the great healer.
But it takes time to get there.
And this is the process that wego through to get there, which
is the grieving and the lettinggo, and then the choosing joy,
the choosing to hold onto thegood stuff and release all the
rest.
So you're going through all ofthis, even while you're getting
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to know your reincarnated pet intheir new body, and they are
getting to know you as you arenow post their loss in your same
body.
There is a lot going on.
Even if your reincarnated petcame back and they were to the
I's and the T's the same, thatalone would still change them
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because you are changed.
You are not the same.
You have grieved, you have lostand you have lived through it
and hopefully you are nowevolving through it.
And you've gone through thistremendous learning and growth
journey of evolution, throughthis soul awakening that we call
pet reincarnation.
So you're stronger, you're moreintuitive, you're more tuned in
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with yourself than you everwere in the past.
So you have changed.
Is it any wonder that you willthen experience, even if your
pet is, to the letter, exactlythe same?
You will still experience thatthey have changed because you
have changed.
So that's the fly on the wallperspective a day in the life of
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living with your reincarnatedpet.
So there's the joyful reunionand then there's the continued
evolution.
Let me know what questions youhave after giving this episode a
listen or two.
Perhaps Let me know what elseyou'd like me to talk about on
pet reincarnation, on grief, onother topics.
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Let me know how you've likedtoday's episode.
It's always a joy for me tohear that a podcast episode has
landed with you, or perhaps thatit's generated additional
questions.
If you're new to let's Talk toAnimals, I endeavor to release a
new episode every two weeks onWednesday mornings.
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It doesn't always happen withthe team of me and me and our
packed schedule, but just knowthat is always the intention.
We're in our sixth season now,so I've been doing pretty well
along that timeline and I alwayslook forward to sharing this
journey with you.
So if that sounds good to you,please do bookmark.
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Let's Talk to Animals.
Give us a like, a subscribe, afollow.
If you're interested inlearning animal communication,
head over toanimallovelanguagescom.
You can also schedule a sessionwith me.
Let's talk to your pet, let'sfind out their reincarnation
plans.
And until next time, I send youall my love.
Okay, bye for now.
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