How to Have a Real Heart-to-Heart Connection with Your Dog

How to Have a Real Heart-to-Heart Connection with Your Dog

Are you struggling to form a strong heart-to-heart connection with your dog? It could be a simple case of trying too hard or overthinking it. If we’re distracted, focused on other things, or too busy, this can affect the close partnership we all dream of having with our dogs. Sometimes it pays to really step […]

How to Join Up with Our Dogs

How to Join Up with Our Dogs

Sometimes we just get so caught up in the drama, urgencies, to-do lists, and life’s responsibilities that we forget what’s really important. We can even get lost in an idea of how our dogs are supposed to be. We fixate on how they’re meant to look and behave without even realizing that it’s all down […]

How Connection Can Help Your Over-Aroused Dog

How Connection Can Help Your Over-Aroused Dog

If you have an over-aroused dog, you’ll be no stranger to emotional outbursts. Overwhelming experiences like these can trigger anxieties that make it difficult for you and your dog to move forward. But life with a reactive dog doesn’t have to be this way. When Andrea Baumann got her standard poodle, Tobias, she dreamed he […]

What If You Could Always Feel a Connection with Your Dog?

What If You Could Always Feel a Connection with Your Dog?

Are you feeling disconnected from your dog? Are you struggling to remain present and in the moment with them? When we talk about living a partnership lifestyle, one of the things this means is intentionally creating a heart-to-heart connection with your dog. It means learning to be present and having an awareness of ourselves and […]

Extending an Invitation: Why Your Expectations Matter

Extending an Invitation: Why Your Expectations Matter

Both humans and dogs crave connection. We’ve got a deep social need to belong that’s hardwired into us. That’s why invitations are so important for establishing a partnership with your dog – it’s an instant gateway to connection! So, how do you extend an invitation that builds a partnership bond? I had a really interesting […]

How to Build Your Connection with Your Dog

How to Build Your Connection with Your Dog

Did you know that both you and your dog are wired for connection? It’s almost as though your relationship with your dog was written in the stars! However, there are things you could be doing that consciously or unconsciously disconnect you from your dog. The things that weaken your connection with your dog can lead […]