Barbara Howe Amendola, spirit guide and friend, owns Braveheart: Compassionate Animal Care and founded the Sanctuary of 7Seven Good Days in April 2010.

She lives in Mill Spring with her husband Rick and she tells us more about her work with humans and pets, something most of us have had relationship with at some point in our lives.  Let’s have a listen in.

“I work with animals, and with the adults and children in their lives, to explore relationship & wellness issues, to address challenging behavior and to facilitate vital health for the two-legged and four-legged members of the family,” begins Barbara. “My tools of trade are verbal and non-verbal communication, deep heart listening, HeartTouch energy healing and flower essence therapy. I also suggest herbal medicinals and recommend a transition to a whole food diet for people and for their companions. My mission is to restore balance, calm, peace and rest to beings who currently experience distress, discomfort, fear and anxiety. It is my sense that reducing stress and listening to what our bodies are telling us is the high road to healing.  The dietary recommendations I encourage are key and primal.”

What sounds like advice for humans goes equally true for our furry friends.

Barbara continues, “It is important that we recognize that we can spend truckloads of money on disease management, and never get to the heart of true health care. The health of our bodies, humans and pets, begins with a healthy connection with the life force that infuses and informs the natural world. When we separate ourselves from others, or even imagine or believe that’s possible or beneficial, it’s a downhill slide.”

“We’ve got it all wrong in this culture of absence that’s been created and is continually reinforced by an insidious dumbing down of our own wise selves in our almighty dollar-driven economy. The word Almighty already refers to something else, something much bigger, the only something that matters, and we’ve forgotten that in our present scenario. This central absence drives the creation of more absence, until even our food supply is absent of the life force that we need to live happy, healthy lives as partners in service to that something.”

“When we farm industrially, we deplete our rich, live earth and poison our food supply, and ourselves in the process. Tech savvy, but not so smart. Overconsumption and waste take their toll. There’s all this so-called abundance which is not only devoid of good nutrition, but poisonous to our bodies. Then we load up on very costly pharmaceuticals and therapies, more poison for our already compromised immune systems. This creates an endless cycle of absence and ill-health.  And we feed and disease manage our animal companions in much the same way.”

For more on Barbara’s compassionate care practice for human/animal relationships, food supplies, and herbal and floral remedies go to barbarahoweamendola.com.