Do Animals 'Fix' Our Problems?
One of the questions I'm often asked during consultations is whether animals give advice. People want to know if their animal can tell them what decision to make, whether they should change jobs, move to a new city, or make a difficult choice. After communicating with animals for almost a decade, I've realised that they rarely approach these situations the way we do. They aren't interested in solving our problems. They're far more interested in helping us see them differently. As humans, we spend a lot of time thinking. We replay conversations, imagine different outcomes, worry about the future, and try to control situations that haven't even happened yet. Our minds are constantly searching for certainty. Animals don't experience the world like that. Their perspective is much simpler. They live in the present far more than we do, and because of that, they often notice things we've completely overlooked. I've had animals point out that their human is carr...