05/09/2026
Healthy relaxation is a massive key to vitality, longevity, and resilience.
It's only in states of healthy relaxation that your pets' immune system is fully active, harmonious, and online.
Relaxation = rest, digest, and regenerate
The opposite of relaxation is arousal - which we see in anxiety, post traumatic stress, and animals who are over-exciteable, hypervigilant, and have no 'off-switch'
Arousal = fight, flight, freeze
I have seen a number of dogs with severe anxiety and trauma who also had severe, intractable gut, skin, or immune issues that simply didn;t respond to treatment.
This is because the constant arousal flooded their bodies with cortisol and adrenalin. All the blood flow was shunted from the gut to the muscles (so can't digest and absorb nutrients properly). All of this also depresses and dysregulates the immune system. Not to mention causing inflammation and leaky guts, that then makes everything even worse.
One of the main ways I help these very chronically unwell animals is to teach their uhumans how to use relaxing massage every day. This triggers relaxation, and over time also teaches these animals how to relax, and how to anchor into a dominant state of healthy relaxation.
It does take a while for the immune system to heal when relaxation becomes dominant. Usually 3-9 months of regular, daily relaxing touch is required, but I've seen animals heal massively, when nothing else worked, with this approach.
A healthy, relaxed nervous system supports healing. Especially when I integrate energy healing into the protocol!
If you have a pet that nothing seems to work for, who is chroinically unwerll, and you have any questions, please do message me!
I help animals all over the world heal and be well + happy with holistic veterinary care, kind training, and energy healing. If you want me to help your pets, message me! Zoom and in person appts available.