Welcome 2025

I hope you had a great start into the New Year!

We were lucky this year .. the neighbors chose to party elsewhere 🤪 so the fireworks load was lighter than pretty much any other year.

Good boy Cai would have been happy.

I love myself a gentle start to the year too.

In fact, today is still a public holiday in Spain - the Three Kings - the “biggest” day for kids who get their presents. Let’s hope I wasn’t celebrating few fireworks too early 😛

How did you and your dogs into the New Year?

Pick of the week:

“Life is Better With a Dog .. or two or three” .. true that, no doubt 🤣🤣

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This week’s Pawsome Human: Dr. Edward Bassingthwaighte - Understanding and Healing Your Pet’s Silent Pain

You might remember Dr. Ed from the Panic to Peace summit or an earlier podcast episode. I invited him back on the show to talk about his new book:

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Ed, a holistic veterinarian based in regional Victoria, Australia, and the founder of the Whole Energy Body Balance method.

Dr. Ed shared insights on how pets, despite their silence, often suffer from hidden pain, anxiety, and trauma.

His journey began when he started noticing undiagnosed neck and back pain in animals, eventually leading him to understand the prevalence of soft tissue and neurofascial pain.

Over the years, Dr. Ed developed a method integrating therapeutic touch, neurofascial bodywork, intuitive perception, and energy healing, now captured in his book aimed at helping pet owners detect and heal their pet’s silent pain.

Our discussion also touched on the importance of understanding non-verbal communication in animals, the emotional and energetic pain they carry, and how his holistic approach can profoundly improve their wellbeing and behavior.

This episode is a must-listen for pet owners and veterinary professionals alike, revealing the unseen struggles of pets and offering practical solutions to alleviate their pain.

Grab a cuppa and join us (and yes, please like and subscribe to help the baby YouTube channel grow 🙏)

To find out more and connect with Dr. Ed:

Bio:
Dr Edward is known globally as The Healing Vet. Through his own recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Lyme, he explored holistic medicine and energy healing.

He is the founder of a profoundly healing bodywork modality for pets, people and horses - the Whole Energy Body Balance™ Method.

Dr Edward practices integrative medicine in Vet hospitals while empowering pet parents and professionals to find and heal silent pain, anxiety and trauma for their pets and themselves.

Dr Edward is a perpetual student of life, an explorer of human potential in all dimensions of being. He makes music as a singer/songwriter, creates visionary abstract art, loves to dance, grows food, loves walking in nature, and has a deep, devoted spiritual practice of movement (chi gong), meditation, and service to life.

Websites:

https://thehealingvet.com
https://wholeenergybodybalance.com

Social media:

https://www.facebook.com/TheHealingVet

The book:

Purchase on Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Find-Heal-Your-Pets-Silent/dp/B0DFLNVWRZ/

Purchase digital version: https://book.wholeenergybodybalance.com/book-org

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Until next week,

Anke