How It All Began

Fifteen years or so ago In Sydney, a girlfriend of mine said to me, ‘you don’t have a career as such, or a family, and so people don’t know where to place you, what box to put you in.’ It sort of shocked me to realise that people were that narrow and from that shocked reaction I bizarrely shared with her that I had always wanted a dog and a ute.

Living, at that time, a rather sophisticated Sydney life, I was unsure as to exactly how I would get a ute and a dog into my life…but destiny prevailed and a couple of years later I found myself in the Northern parts of NSW with an Australian Kelpie and a Nissan ute. And even though I had always wanted the ute and the dog...

I had no possible way of knowing what the dog would bring me – how that relationship would open my eyes and my heart, changing me forever.

Finally, I would now find a career that ‘those people’ could happily ‘box me in’.   

Over the years, prior to owning that Kelpie, I had recognised the need in us to look for validation outside ourselves. If I’d had an early career or family they would have provided that validation for me I’m sure.  But it felt to me that when we get those external validations - wealth, career, family, spiritual identity, etc, what they give us feels like a strength. But are they? I couldn’t help asking what are we really getting? And at what price? And if those things don’t bring us true self esteem, or love or a real sense of purpose, what does?

My blog is about all that, AND the road we walk with dogs. This road can lead to many a revelation if we travel it with energetic awareness. It can teach us how to live from our own inner strength , it can teach us about the magic of God, about the animal kingdom and it can teach us how to hold a personal quality that brings harmony, not only for ourselves but for the whole family.

Golden the Kelpie

Importantly the road we walk with dogs can help us to live honestly. Dishonesty with ourselves is often what holds us back from living the lives we really want….and the honesty of a dog is strong. As a client of mine once said, ‘If I had known that dogs reflect this deep level of ourselves back to us, I wouldn’t have got this dog!’.

I hope you enjoy these sharings.