Speaker 1: 0:26

Welcome to A Witch, a Mystic and a Feminist. Today, we have a truly special guest with us. Meet Nina, a passionate animal communicator who has turned her love for animals into a life-changing journey. From finding solace in the company of abandoned and abused creatures during a challenging childhood to becoming a compassionate veterinary nurse working with human law enforcement, nina has a unique perspective on the healing power of the human-animal bond. Without further ado, let's dive into this unique and inspiring episode. Welcome, nina. Hi, that was so sweet Hi.

Speaker 3: 0:59

Nina Hi guys, how are you? We're good, awesome, how are you?

Speaker 2: 1:04

Yes, I'm doing good, I'm excited.

Speaker 4: 1:07

Well, we're excited to have you on the show because you know we've been trying to do this for a while and the last time I have my dog. The last time we tried to do this the one that's right here a couple she got bit by something, that's right. So I had to take her to the vet and I remember you actually gave me a reading like on the spot, and then I took her over to the vet, which was interesting.

Speaker 1: 1:35

It was a chaotic morning. Yeah, it was a very chaotic morning.

Speaker 4: 1:38

I don't know if you remember that, because that was a while ago.

Speaker 2: 1:42

I do remember, and I remember it, kind of feeling, like you know, it's a shame he needed to go to the vet, but like I was here so I could kind of give you some guidance on what was upsetting him or what he was feeling, which kind of felt like divine.

Speaker 3: 1:54

So you know, you were here for a reason.

Speaker 4: 1:58

Exactly, exactly, exactly, and so you work with animals as part of your day job and as well as doing your animal communication.

Speaker 2: 2:09

So I only do the animal communication now, but for a while I was doing both. Yeah, oh, okay.

Speaker 4: 2:16

Oh, do you think that that's really helped with? Well, okay, first what came first, yeah, oh goodness.

Speaker 2: 2:25

Well, I guess what came first was the well. I guess you know my love for animals and as a child I had a really abusive childhood, didn't really have a ton of friends, I wasn't very good in school, didn't make a lot of friends in school, so animals were kind of like all I had, and so that's where the love started. I don't have any conscious memory of doing animal communication as a kid, or any spooky stories or anything paranormal or spiritual. I was just a regular kid in survival mode. And you know, as I got older I was bouncing around from job to job like didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't go to college and my sister was volunteering at an animal shelter and I was like I can't do it, it's too painful, I don't think I could handle that. She was like well, at the very least come meet this dog that she absolutely fell in love with, and I met him and I ended up adopting him. But that's how it started. I started volunteering at the shelter and then I became an adoptions counselor at that shelter, then I became a vet tech and then I moved on to the PSPCA, which is the prevention of cruelty society to animals, which is basically working with animals who are victims of cruelty and they go through the court system and everything like that, and I think that's where a lot of my knowledge and passion and recognizing how resilient animals are was working there. I worked there for over 10 years.

Speaker 4: 3:44

Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 2: 3:45

That's beautiful. So that was a good time.

Speaker 4: 3:49

So how did you end up transitioning into animal communication?

Speaker 2: 3:54

Yeah, Also, growing up I went to a Catholic grade school and a little bit of a high school. I ended up dropping out of high school at home point, but it was. I didn't feel comfortable with religion. It really scared me and I always felt there's always just a sense of doom, in my opinion. Beer guilt all the things, yeah, the things I was reading and I would stay up at night, I mean from like 16 all the way until like just like a couple of years ago. I wasn't therapy for my fear of death and dying and what happens afterwards and who's coming back and what they're going to do, and so I was terrifying and paralyzing and I didn't believe in anything. And then, you know, I realized that therapy was helping. But I needed something more. I needed like proof, and I recognized that if I was going to find that proof, I needed to be brave enough to look for it. So I went down a rabbit hole of mediumship and I learned from what they were saying is that this is not a gift. This is just everybody's natural form of communication. We just forget because we're kind of supposed to yeah, yeah, whatever your beliefs are. And so I was like, oh, that's fun If everyone can do it. I think I'd like maybe want to experience connecting with the spirit world, just to know that it's real, so that I could maybe stop having this paralyzing fear of death. So I started taking these classes and it was like 20 other people in me who were afraid of death and dying and knew nothing. And then, all of a sudden, we were like communicating with each other's loved ones and breaking through like validation and evidence. And so I was like this is amazing, like I want to do this professionally, like it would be so cool if I could do this for people and help them. And then I came across, you know, I was bouncing around from teachers. Then I came across a woman who I took her mediumship course, but her sister strictly did animals, and I was like hold the phone.

Speaker 3: 5:44

Why am I?

Speaker 2: 5:44

talking to dead people. If I could be talking to animals when.

Speaker 3: 5:47

I work with animals. This is amazing.

Speaker 2: 5:49

Yeah, I was like let me see what this is all about. And it was incredible. And then I found myself in a class talking to people's animals and then I was like doing practicing with my friends and their animals and then I was like I could do this like for reals. And because I work in the animal community, I was like there's so many animals I could help especially the animals that I work with who are mostly like hospitalized and coming in with really brutal stories and recovery and rehabilitation, and I was like I could help them through this, at the very least talk them through this. And yeah, so that's how I ended up getting started and brought it to my job and I did utilize it at work. And then I was like I think I could do this and help other people full time. And that's kind of how I made the switch. I still go to the PSPCA, but kind of per diem, when they have like a raid or something really crazy going on, they'll ask me like, do I want to stop in? And it's rare, but I definitely still work there whenever they need me.

Speaker 4: 6:47

Oh, that's great. So how long have you been communicating with animals then?

Speaker 2: 6:52

Yeah, I would say like professionally, like 100% confidence that I'm doing it about two years now, fantastic.

Speaker 3: 7:00

Yeah and go. I was going to say and do you also do communication with pets who are still alive with us?

Speaker 2: 7:08

I don't know, yeah, that's what like blew my mind. I was like, oh cool, like yeah, I'm sure we could talk to animals who are like passed on, like love that. And then she was like, let's do a living animal. And I was like, what? And that was even more exciting. And that is like I love connecting people to their animals. In spirit it's beautiful, especially childhood pets. Like we all leave crying after the childhood pets, but connecting somebody to their living pet is so unique. Like just this week I had two people send me back like updates because I'm like your animal says there's a baby's coming. I don't know who it is, but like your animals know you're pregnant, like along before you do. And I had two people email me back this week and they were like, oh, found out who's pregnant. Oh, my gosh, they know so much. Like if you think you're like lying to your animal or hiding something from them, like they know you better than you know yourself.

Speaker 3: 7:56

That's so awesome.

Speaker 2: 7:58

Yeah, it's so cool.

Speaker 4: 8:00

So you know, this takes me back to when, again, when I spoke to you with regards to Capo and then also. So I have like three pit bulls, and during that time my young one, kage, was a puppy, and my older one, koa, didn't like him, and so you had told me to let him know that part of his job was not just to protect the house and the family, but that Kage was a part of the family too and his job was to protect him. And so he does that now, and so I had that conversation with him after we spoke. He does that now reluctantly, but he just but he does it. He does it. I mean like he hasn't bit his face off. We haven't had to go to the vet for that Amazing Like in the past year or so. And he, yeah, like I said, he does it, just he's reluctant about it. He's just like you and I. We're still not friends, but I will protect you because that's your job.

Speaker 2: 8:59

I love that and that's so important, like when your animals are kind of just like roaming around. People really want to know, like, what my animal wants, when it's like staring at me or barking at me. Like well, first I would suggest you take a look at like what you're procrastinating on, because your animals, their behaviors, will mirror something in your life that you need to work on. But also, like, is your animal bored? Do they need a job? Yeah, like I would. I think it's really big to look at yourself first and then what's going on in your animals environment, because, at the end of the day, yes, they're. They're here for us to help and guide us, but they're also still wild animals Like we just domesticated, we brought them in, put sweaters on them and called it a day, but they still have like primal instincts and things that we need to honor. In addition to them, honoring what they do for us so kind of goes hand in hand.

Speaker 1: 9:44

So when I say to my dog stop looking at me like that, I'll get to it, just leave me alone. Like I swear I'll clean, okay, like she actually could be like hi, like, let's do this. That's what's getting said.

Speaker 2: 9:56

Yeah, okay. So those things you're like, I think my animals like judging me for something.

Speaker 4: 10:01

Oh yeah, go with that. Okay, I was just going to say that I was like oh, so your animal's job is to actually sit there and judge you, yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:12

And it's more like it's from such a loving place, like they lovingly sign up to do this stuff with us, like they know what they're getting into. They do.

Speaker 3: 10:19

Yeah, yeah, I know my dog likes to take revenge on us when we leave her for too long. So, like when we go on, we've gotten to the point where we no longer put her in boarding if we go on a trip. We actually have a house sitter, pet sitter that comes and stays in the house purely for our dog and our two cats, and every time, like she come, we come home from a trip and she's all happy to see us. And then I find out she pissed on my son's bed. I'm like what are you?

Speaker 2: 10:44

doing Like she'll.

Speaker 3: 10:45

I really think it's like I'll show you. You go somewhere that long without me, you know, because she just, yeah, that I love her Sorry.

Speaker 2: 10:54

She has my revenge. I'll show you.

Speaker 3: 10:56

Missy, don't you dare leave me that long with strangers, even though it's the same pets that are we've had for like years. But okay.

Speaker 2: 11:04

So I would be interested to like I can't do it, like obviously I wouldn't do it now. I don't know that. My experience is that animals are revengeful. I think they're always like guiding you, like something probably about you vacationing, or the sitter. You're probably not happy with something in that situation, like there's probably something you might want to change or something you would feel more comfortable in, because they don't know that they're revengeful.

Speaker 3: 11:27

And they could be just not.

Speaker 2: 11:29

Maybe it's not revenge may not be the right word it's like, or even spiteful, I think they can be if you're not doing some what they're trying to teach you.

Speaker 3: 11:38

Stay home with me. Why are you leaving me?

Speaker 2: 11:42

This woman reached out to me and she's like my dog won't stop urinating in my son's room. That's all she told me. And we connected and her dog told me that the song was really nasty and was hitting his little sister and hitting his mom and that's really sensitive and that's tough to bring through to somebody. So I try to as gently as I can bring through in these really heavy things that your animals will bring through. And you know she was like I'm just going to shut the door. And I told the animal and the animal was like great, shut the door but I'm not going to stop, like I'll urinate outside of the room because something needs to be done about this, like kind of abuse towards the little sister, and so there's usually something going on that needs to be like tended to.

Speaker 3: 12:18

Yeah, Now I'm thinking, I'm like what am I doing?

Speaker 2: 12:23

Don't think you're working to it, like I would just work there and be like hey girlfriend, like what's going on? The belief is going on with this and then just like, let it come to you, like whatever you feel here, see, no, just go with that.

Speaker 4: 12:35

So how do animals actually communicate with us?

Speaker 2: 12:39

There's so many different ways, but I feel like I should talk about kind of like your psychic senses, like you're knowing, you're hearing, you're feeling and things like that. But the way that they communicate most is through visual images and like feelings. So usually when I'm connecting with somebody I might get like a quick snapshot of a picture, like it's real quick, and then I'll get like a feeling or a sensation with it. So those are the way that they communicate with me the most. So, like a lot of people want to know, how do I keep my dog off the couch when you're sending them this image of like get off the couch, what are you picturing? You're picturing your animal on the couch. I would picture them on the floor and say, like get on the floor, because you're gonna send them mixed messages, because, like your feeling is like annoying and you're on the couch and they're like I don't know why you're annoyed, like I see what you're sending me, I'm on the couch. I would send them something else, something that you want them to do, not a behavior you don't want them to do. So that's usually how they communicate. But sometimes words which I hear in my voice you guys would hear it in your voice kind of just drops down. If it's my voice it's usually happens up here, like if it's my brain and then, if it's theirs, it drops in the back of my head and it quite literally feels like somebody is like dropping a word in my head and I'll hear it in my voice and then you know you. Kind of this way I tell people like I'll interpret it and piece it all together and bring it through to you. But if something doesn't sound right or doesn't sound like your animal, don't try to make it fit, because it's possible to misinterpret these messages. So we're gonna do this together. Like they might send me a green balloon and I'm like I have no idea what this means, but it makes me really excited and maybe their favorite collar has green balloons on it. So I also ask for validation back when we're doing this communication. It's it's a three-way dialogue between me, you and your animal. So I always recommend people come ready to talk.

Speaker 3: 14:27

Yeah, that is beautiful. I love that. Now I'm seriously, I'm sitting here going. What is Maggie thinking? My little dog, I'm like hmm.

Speaker 2: 14:37

Also like in feeling, like when people want to know, do you, is your animal in any discomfort or pain, like I'll always say I can't diagnose your animal. I believe very much in veterinary medicine and doing it together rather than in replacing. And I'll Scan the animals body and or I'll ask them, like when someone's like all my dog towards leg, I'll ask the dog what leg, and then my leg might go numb, I might get a vibration, I might get a pain in my knee. It's a couple different sensations. Or if an animal, if I ask them how they pass, if they pass from a seizure, I get a big pain in my head and I get really lightheaded. So you can also. They'll speak to you in a way that makes sense to you. So you can say this is my sign for blank. Please, for the rest of however long I do this, communicate with me through this so I know like this is my sign for seizure, this is my sign for heart condition, things like that. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4: 15:29

I truly believe that I I do communicate with my, with my dogs, and my husband sometimes thinks I'm baddie because I'm like. You know the commentary that comes out of my mouth. Is that really what they're thinking? I'm like.

Speaker 2: 15:48

Communication is really happening all the time. You guys do it with your animals every day. They have no problem communicating with you. It's you, the human, me, the human, that is probably not listening.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Yeah yeah, exactly. Well, and we're not tuned into their language either, like you were saying. Right, like exactly.

Speaker 2: 16:05

And I think we're more tuned in than we think. Like you, you're these things that are just coming to your head, like if you feel like, oh, I really want something that my dog might want, or my dog might really want this, I would trust that and get it for your animal. Or if, for some reason, you're like, if your dogs like knocked out and you're like Do they want to go outside? You know, go with that, see if they want to go outside. Trust, trust what you're getting from your animals. I think the more you listen to your animals, the the more you're gonna see it happen.

Speaker 3: 16:33

Yeah, and, and like you said it, it goes back to the abilities of listening to ourselves right, trusting what we think we're getting and knowing that as a sign, a truth of communication, because a lot of times we Second guess our own intuition, our own, yeah that's the most challenging thing and I think even when people ask their animals for signs, they'll get it and they'll be like never sign here, sign like they don't even trust the sign that they got.

Speaker 2: 16:59

Totally, totally normal, like I do it, you right, but Trust that like. People are like this, something magical happened or it's really mundane and they're like there's no way that could have been it. Like this, in some way they'll make it impossible for it to be a sign and it's like then your animals gonna be like oh, whatever, yeah, come back to you another day.

Speaker 3: 17:19

You're not listening.

Speaker 2: 17:22

Yeah, and they, they don't get like frustrated, but we're human and they're like already mastered all the things that there is to master, especially when they're in spirit. They're like whatever human like. I'll come back to you another I.

Speaker 3: 17:36

See, not listening. We've stopped using the word, the big C word, the coincidence word, because we find that you know. We just sum up these signs that we've asked for as much as just a coincidence. That's just a coincidence. No, it's not like embrace it, whatever it might be and how much more even if it is a coincidence and we're all nuts.

Speaker 2: 17:54

How much more fun is life when you believe in the magic. Yeah, please like why?

Speaker 3: 18:00

what's the harm? At least it makes your heart happy, you know or whatever.

Speaker 4: 18:04

It is love that.

Speaker 3: 18:05

Oh yeah, yeah, we stopped using the C word around here. Believe in coincidences?

Speaker 4: 18:11

No, we don't. So what are some of the with your clients that come and see you? What's like a common question that a lot of people come and ask you?

Speaker 2: 18:24

Really common question for animals in spirit. People wanna know if they're gonna come back, if they're gonna see them again in this lifetime. Also, a lot of people want to say sorry to their animals for, however, the way they passed when, especially if they have to be euthanized. So that's really common with the animals in spirit. Really common for animals who are living is what can I do better to be a pet parent?

Speaker 4: 18:51

That's really big. And what advice would you have for pet owners in general, generalized, what advice would you give to them to help them with that?

Speaker 2: 19:03

To be a better pet parent. Yeah, generalized advice I would, depending on like the pet you have, I would look. I would really look into their environment and what their basic needs are for enrichment and kind of what they would do in the wild if they weren't domesticated, and give them that kind of enrichment as well as like something that we would find at the store, like include both, because they are wild at the end of the day and that really makes them happy when they're doing what they're born to do, like what their natural job is, but I really honestly giving your animals like remembering that they're sentient beings and give them their space, respect their boundaries. Animals will talk to you through their own body language, but also I think that people forget that they will give off energy and you can feel it. You don't have to be tuned in to feel this, this is just natural. Everybody has an energy field. Listen to that and I think, as long as you're providing them with, like, their boundaries and their basic needs, that's they love you that's good enough. And also giving them that enrichment and training and things like that, that's just like the cherry on top.

Speaker 3: 20:09

I don't normally have my animals in here when I'm recording, but I have an empty house and if I leave the door shut they will scratch out the door. So that was my big white cat, Buster, who is probably my most challenging pet to understand, and he's a you know it's funny.

Speaker 2: 20:26

My dog Slinky's really difficult for me to understand.

Speaker 3: 20:29

Yeah, really.

Speaker 2: 20:30

Yeah, he doesn't use words, it's just like feelings and I'm like what, what, what, what, what.

Speaker 4: 20:38

He's tough. What do you try to say? It's like nothing, but here's all my feelings, yeah he's very.

Speaker 2: 20:45

The other day we were on a walk and he was like staring into nothing, and he's been doing this often and I was like what's going on? And he was like observe, and I was like observe what? And he like disconnected from me.

Speaker 3: 20:56

Pay attention, help me out, pay attention, look at me, look in front of you, this cat. We've had discussions about this cat before and I have found that cats, because I do feel like they're more I don't wanna say more wild than dogs, but I feel like they are naturally just their cats, like they tend to be a little more into their wild nature than I have with my little dog, who's, you know, eight pounds and can't get enough of humans. This cat we found in our backyard nine years ago maybe, and you know, three days old, and I just I can't, I don't understand him. I'm trying to level up with him because he's so, he's just so protective of the family, but he has one person in our family it's my daughter that he allows to do whatever she wants to him Like. That is his human and I love that. Literally like if she's eating at the table. That's the only time I allow him to sit there on the table, the dining table, to eat, because she's right there and he has to be like on, like right, watching her eat. When she's doing homework, his head is on her hand while she's doing homework. When they sleep, he sleeps on the other side of her bed on the pillow next to her, like that is just his human. Now the rest of us? Just don't touch the white cat. He will scratch you, swat at you, whatever. He'll sit on the perch and as you walk by, you know, swings at you. But my daughter all day so beautiful.

Speaker 2: 22:32

Yeah, I believe the families that they're born into, or whatever that they do, have like contracts and things set up with everybody that they're meant to fulfill, but there sometimes there is just that one person that they're meant to be like their best friend or their biggest guy.

Speaker 3: 22:48

For whatever reason, they've truly connected. And you know she'll come over and say, Buster, don't do like, if he swings us, don't do that. And then he just kind of, and then she'll go to a room and he follows suit right behind her. That's so sweet. But I will say, like he has, he loves his family. So I just I tell people when they come over, don't touch the white cat Like he loves his family. My husband will be sitting on the couch and he just comes right up here and he's like a 15 pound cat, Like he's a big cat. Here's the thing.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Like I really feel like he's trying to come through here here because, as you're talking, he's like, and so what? He's like, so what if I don't want people to touch me? He's laughing at how it's so easy for animals to put up boundaries and humans like they haven't mastered it yet and we're so silly Like. He's like, so what? Put up a boundary like, try it out sometime. So normal for the animals to put up boundaries because they've mastered all the things they don't, they don't care, they're like I don't want you touching me. This is my person. I love my humans and I don't need to talk to anybody else out there because I have a job that I came to do it and some animals are like that and some animals are very much like. I'm just going to go out to everybody who's really scared of dogs and just be the best dog I can be and change a bunch of hearts, like it just depends on your animal. So I would encourage him and be like. I'm so proud of you. Thank you for modeling such a wonderful behavior of like setting your boundary.

Speaker 3: 24:06

I now respect you, know I'm actually like, like I feel that, because I feel like I feel I'm so proud, I feel like I'm listening to my cat, he, I feel like that's like what he's walking around saying Like I don't, I don't care, my person is Stella, my daughter, and that's that's who I'm here to be with. You know, and screw the rest of you Like I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 2: 24:30

And you're honoring that by when people you're like just don't touch the way. Yeah, don't mess with that, and I think that's beautiful that you honor that and you give them his space. Like you're not like, well, what can I do to make him more friendly, like he loves his person, he loves his family and that's good enough for him and you're like, that's good enough for me too? That's really good advice I can give people. Accept your animal. For who?

Speaker 4: 24:49

they are.

Speaker 2: 24:50

Don't try to make them something else. Like I've got a very reactive job, aisha, and I will never try to push her past her limits. Yeah, like I've heard she's had a rough life, I would never push her past her limits.

Speaker 3: 25:00

Yeah, I, I hope you do feel this and hear this buster, but we do. We respect the fact that he is that way. Now do I wish he was the cuddly, cozy cat sometimes? Yeah, because he's a very sweet cat to the people he loves. But yeah, I kind of like that he owns it and he's like screw you In my house, people, you're in my house. Yeah, yeah, he's, he's interesting.

Speaker 2: 25:23

There's a lot we can learn from the behaviors that we think are like silly or undesirable. Sometimes it's like I wonder if I did that in my life. Yeah, If I would be happy. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 25:32

Right, I'm glad you bring that up, because my youngest dog he's just barely a year old and he is what I call a dood-de-doo Like he will start chasing his tail. He'll be like right in your face and then all of a sudden his tail comes around and he's just starts chasing it, and so I'm like, oh, it's the dood-de-doo, dood-de-doo. I was talking with my husband and I was like you know, he's so goofy, but if we all just like he's so in the moment and I think he's just a reminder that we need to live in the moment Like that's his lesson here for us is quit being so serious all the time and sometimes just go chase your tail, which is why I want to tail Again.

Speaker 3: 26:15

I love that. Still wants to tail. It's so true.

Speaker 2: 26:18

We can learn a lot from just paying attention to how they act in their day to day lives. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: 26:23

Yeah, and that's where I was going with my point that at best I hope you hear this we do defend him and I hope he knows that, because people will say, oh yeah, that's the mean cat, you know, just leave him alone, like people who know Buster who come in this house and Like, yeah, just leave him alone, he's fine, you know, he won't bother you if you don't bother him. You know, and I will tell him, like if he gets too close to people, because I know, I know him, I know he will potentially swat at them. Buster, get down, you know, and I he just looks at me and I'll be like Buster and he and then he goes and he gets Stella.

Speaker 2: 26:58

Yeah, I wouldn't be mindful of what you let people say about it, like he's the mean cat or like because names the things we give them, hold energy. So you know like a lot of people will comment on my tiktok about them. Like I call my animal like trash bag or something like those are the people who are trying to be funny. But if you're calling your animal trash bag and there's just like love coming from you, great yeah. But like when you're like he's the mean cat, that resonates with the feeling and he's he's gonna pick up on that and then he's gonna model that back. When my mom comes down and my dogs like barking and lunging, she praises my penny, how are you doing? You're so brave like we don't do bad. Talk to my animals in this house because they'll model that we try and defend them.

Speaker 3: 27:40

Yeah, he's just asleep, buster alone. He's fine, he's these dude does thing.

Speaker 2: 27:44

It's okay, like I'll call my cat sour patch because she's sweet, and sour because she is, but she was born that way. I used to call her a demon and I stopped calling her that, and ever since then she's been so much sweeter, oh, she's like thank you, take a hint yeah. I truly believe that oh.

Speaker 4: 28:04

So what would a? So somebody contacts you for a reading. What would the process be like? What can they expect?

Speaker 2: 28:12

Yeah. So a lot of people like to email me first and kind of tell me what's going on in their family, and I love that. I think have starting a relationship with a communicator starts before you even meet. I love when people email me and reach out to me because nobody really knows what an animal communicator is or they're like they don't know what to expect. So, talking to me beforehand, I'd love to prep you so you can be more comfortable and safe or feeling safe coming to the session. But usually what they do is that you know they just kind of go to the website, they book a session, they pick what day and time works for them. I will email them and ask for a picture of their animal or their crew. I usually ask for one of them facing the camera. It doesn't matter if they were puppies or when they're older. I just I also ask for multiples because I I know it's impossible to choose one, so I'm like send as many as you want and. I'm not seeing their faces. So and then we log on to the zoom I introduced myself and what you can expect is really what you want out of the session. I ask you to think of intentions, anything you want to tell your animal, ask your animal, quirky behaviors there's medical things that are going on. What your purpose is, what their purpose is, is there anything they want to accomplish in this lifetime? And then there are some people who come without questions and that is completely fine. I'll tap into the animal and say, hey, like, what are your priorities? Is there anything you want to change in your day-to-day? Anything you want, less of anything you want your humans to stop doing. And what people I think don't expect is they come wanting to hear about their animal and their animals like, here's like one thing about me. Here's a laundry list of things about my human, and they don't expect that and I'm always like listen, I'm so sorry. I know you came here to talk about your animal and we'll get to it, but they won't always talk about themselves until they get their message across, because when you are happy and in alignment, they are happy in an alignment and a lot of things will go better in their life when things are going better in your life. So that's what you can expect a little bit of like a therapy session for you and then a little light-heartedness about what's going on with your animal.

Speaker 3: 30:09

You really just depends on the animal and it depends on, like what's going on in your life, this visual, as you were saying, that of, like the dog, like, oh Okay, let me tell you what's going on with this human and I, like let me give you the laundry, like I am in thank you for coming because I'm trying to tell this human, my human, all these things, and they're not listening. I think that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 30:30

I had a session the other day and the lady was like she's definitely been talking to my therapist.

Speaker 3: 30:34

They're like.

Speaker 2: 30:36

Therapist. They will, they will. I once had two people come into the session different, they shared the zoom link, different like places in the world and the woman told me this was her old roommate and that they raised the animal together. And when I tapped into the animal, the animals like they're not roommates, they have broken up and they're not in a good place with each other and I was like this is delicate, you don't have to answer me, but this is the energy coming from your animal, like just this disresonate. And then they started laughing and it broke the tension. Oh so like I always trust what the animals say, which is is Was difficult for me, like having to trust that you're telling me your roommates and your animals essentially like they're lying yeah, it was so beautiful because they were so tense and then when their animal said that, it broke the tension and the session was so nice. I love when people come relax and excited, because when you're loose and excited and in a place of receiving and being like open-minded, your animals like swoop in so strongly and then when you and I spoke, it was oh my god, I have one dog attacking another dog.

Speaker 4: 31:37

My dog over here just got bit by something and she's swelling up. I'm like what is going on? And so, yeah, there was a lot of tension.

Speaker 2: 31:45

That can happen too. I mean, some of the sessions are really beautiful, like hearted and fun, and some of them are really emotional and icky and talked about things that are our grief and guilt and regret, like those big feelings do come up. It just depends on you and your intentions and your animal. So I don't even ever know what to expect. I just go with whatever you and the animals start saying. It's like it's really a conversation between you and your animals and I am just so like the bridge. Yeah, I just like pass the message back and forth. Yeah, right.

Speaker 4: 32:17

What's one of the funniest stories that you have? That a that an animal has communicated with you.

Speaker 2: 32:26

Funny. The only thing that's coming to mind right now is I had a client whose cat asked for a fish because he said he was bored and like he wanted a friend. So he wanted like a fish and a bull. And then about a year and a half later she had booked with me again and I don't always remember the people or the animals and I was connecting with her new animal and I was like your cat wants a fish and she was like he said this last time, like he wanted a fish last time, and it's like a year and a half later and he's like where's my fish? Yeah. Or his friend was like where's our fish? I also had a dog asked for like oh, I'm sorry, it was a cat. Another cat asked for, um, he was newly adopted into a home that already had a cat and I said does your one cat wear like like bling, like a chain? Because this other cat was like he's got bling, I don't, and she literally had like a chain collar for them, like, like, like rappers would wear. Sometimes they're really silly and you know that's one of them when they're like I want bling because the other cat has some bling.

Speaker 3: 33:28

That's awesome. Where's my bling?

Speaker 2: 33:30

Come on, yeah, yeah, I'm sure I have other funny ones, but those are the ones that are coming to mind right now.

Speaker 4: 33:37

That is so awesome. I'm like animals are just so fantastic, and you know we deserve them. Exactly.

Speaker 2: 33:45

Yeah, they're amazing they really are.

Speaker 4: 33:48

So you're doing this full time. How could we get in contact with you? How? Can our listeners get in contact with you.

Speaker 2: 33:54

Um. I have Tik Tok, which my handle is just firefly viban. V I B I N? Um, and then my Instagram is the same, just firefly viban, and my website is on both of those, or you could just like Google wwwfireflyvibeincom and the website is. I think it's user friendly. I tried to make it user friendly. I thought like an about me, some testimonials. There's like a fact page. There's a lot of stuff on there. And then I recently just added a new offering which isn't actually communication with your animals, it's communication with the wild animals. So like, if you want a letter from a wild animal, I'll tap into, like, the animal kingdom, the animal realm, and whichever animal presents itself I'll well, I don't write the letter they tell me and I just type it. And that's been a lot of fun. That's new and a couple of people have done it and it's so incredibly fun and unique. It's called like animal medicine. One of my mentors taught me about it and I took a lot of courses on that and I felt ready enough to share it. Like, I do this thing where I don't think I'm ready to do things and then I know that I am and I just have to get over it. So that's been so much fun and I'm really, I'm really excited that I kind of got over the fear of doing it, just did it.

Speaker 4: 35:06

Wait, I'm like, hold on, I want to. I want to know a little bit more about this.

Speaker 1: 35:10

I'm like what animals have you tapped into? Yeah, what Christy said.

Speaker 2: 35:14

So, for instance, like one of the girls emailed me and was like I would like some advice on like moving to new places and like meeting new friends. So I tapped into the animal realm and what appeared was a guana and I was like, okay, cool, like what did she got? And they, what the animals? What they do is they. They refer to what they use in the wild to survive and they ask us to try to apply it in our own lives. And the guana was just kind of saying like I could change when I need to. And what he was saying is like you're in this new place, you don't have to be anything that you used to be. You can be whoever you want now, because nobody knows you, nobody knows your background. And so he's kind of saying like blend in where you want to blend in and stand out where you want to stand out, because now you can nobody knows anything about you and don't be afraid, be like proud and excited to share this new person. And so I thought that was really like unique and sometimes the animals will say like you need to eat this fruit or like, bring this color into your life, like the wild animals are. They're so amazing and I did this offering because I was really sad one time not too long ago. I was like sad and I felt a little lost in the sauce and I went to that, drove down to the beach and I was just like walking on the sand and I was like talking to the waves and I was like I can really use some advice right now. And the crabs came, not literally but like they came into my brain and you know they were basically like you can live a life of circumstance and have life decide things for you, or you can live a life of choice and decide what you want. And I was like that's like it was so profound to me at the time and I was like I could I can live a life on purpose or I can live a life by circumstances, what they're saying so I can make my choices and live on purpose or let life decide for me and live based off circumstances. And I was like I love this, like thank you so much and I felt so much better. So I think sometimes, when, like my own animals aren't interested in like helping me out that day, or like the humans in my life, I'm like you just don't get when I'm feeling I just happen to the animal realm because they have a different perspective.

Speaker 3: 37:15

That's beautiful. That is beautiful. I love that.

Speaker 2: 37:17

I was like this is so helpful for my life, I've got to offer this to like somebody else and it's been. It's been really exciting. The last one I had a coyote came and like, shared some, some stuff with this lady and then that day she emailed me back. She lives in Florida and a coyote was in her yard taking oranges off of her tree and I was like how sweet is that? Like, they're always like, they don't always come and manifest physically. But he did Like I gave her this letter from coyote and then, bam, a coyote is like in her backyard. She's love it.

Speaker 3: 37:48

That is amazing. I'm so happy. Yeah, that's beautiful, it really is, yeah.

Speaker 4: 37:53

Absolutely Well, Nina. Thank you so much for joining us and we will make sure to put all of your contact info in the show notes. This was just fantastic and to all of our listeners. As stated, I had a reading with her and she was able to help me with my living animals. I had an excellent experience with you, so thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 2: 38:16

Thank you, yeah, it was my pleasure. Those were some really awesome questions, thank you. That was fun.

Speaker 1: 38:22

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