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Talking to animals with animal communicator and healer Sally Abbot

Sally has an intriguing and wonderful ability to communicate with animals. She explains a little about the process and tells us about 'Steve' the horse, who's a wonderful example of how she can help.

My name is Sally and I work as an animal communicator and healer. For over eight years I have successfully helped all creatures great and small, from camels to hamsters (but more often with horses, dogs and cats). Using my telepathic skills I facilitate breakthroughs in communication between truly beautiful souls and their equally special and caring humans.   I work to give greater insights into their hearts, minds and bodies and have witnessed again and again the profound benefits to all when an animal is heard. Problems can be solved and relationships profoundly deepened. I know how much it means to all animals to be listened to and understood, also to understand their human better – we can give so many mixed messages to animals. It is not all about potential trauma though – many animals are just bursting to share how happy they are and how much they appreciate being with you. Domesticated or wild I have yet to come across a member of the animal kingdom who hasn’t got something to share, even if some take longer to communicate than others – it can be very surprising for them that a human is listening and communicating!  

Every experience I have with an animal leaves me in a state of awe. The wisdom, awareness, compassion and humour they are able to possess, even with possible emotional or physical unease.

To support my communication work, I can incorporate some of the healing modalities that I have trained in over the many years I have been helping people - having such a broad experience base only adds to how I can be of service to these amazing sentient beings – well to you all.  

I work from a photograph  and once I have a brief amount of information from you I will then spend time communicating and send you back a written report and we can progress from there. Having recently moved to glorious Somerset it may be possible to see some of you in person, depending on distance and what the issue is.   

Reaching out to me means you are an innate animal lover or you would not be seeking my help - so already we will be off to a great start. Interestingly, I also know that in many cases an animal might be behaving in a strange way or showing signs of physical or mental discomfort could be because of something going on with their human or within the household and taking this on board in a positive way can only lead to good things. They may know things we don’t know and it can be very helpful information.   

Who is Steve? So glad you asked -the pony in the photograph, a gorgeous soul I was lucky enough to communicate with. Having arrived at a lovely new home, with one of the kindest and empathic families I have ever come across, naturally, he was a little unsure of what lay before him and seemed withdrawn. Thankfully, his owners were quick to pick up on this and asked if I could find out what was going on. He told me that although he could tell he had landed in a great place, beyond his dreams even, sadly he felt low in self confidence, like ‘a ghost of himself’ and that he doubted his ability to do things even if he wanted to. I spent time listening to and communicating with Steve, verbalised his feelings, supporting his owners to respond and reassure him with love and awareness which they did brilliantly so that he was able to blossom into his full potential and what a cracking team he is now part of.

His humans had this to say of our communication sessions and outcome:

'Sally has the most wonderful gift of communication. She has played a beautiful and essential role in our understanding of my daughter’s marvellous, dashing pony, Steve. From the outset, she created a healing space for Steve to step into and in which he could be heard and held. She reassured him of our intentions and, most importantly, of our love and belief in him.  It has been a wonder to see him flourish and to feel his love. We are so thankful to Sally for her animal wisdom.’ 

Setting our animals up for success is key when considering animal communication. Our animals rely on us more than we can truly comprehend - their wellbeing is fully in our hands, and is something we should strive to protect, understand and support as best we can. We rely on them too in so many ways.To me, this is why animal communication is so deeply special - it has the power to make the world a totally different and much happier place for these incredible beings that we are so very fortunate to have in our lives.   

Sally has helped an awful lot of animals and their owners including one of mine and having been a little sceptical initially, my mind has definitely been changed.

If you’d like to contact Sally, please do send her an email, sallyabbot@hotmail.com




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