Pet Lovers

Ask Your Animal: Resolving Animal Behavioral Issues through Intuitive Communication

MP3 File

Length-18 minutes, 51 seconds

Deborah Harper President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Marta Williams, M.A. author of Ask Your Animal: Resolving Animal Behavioral Issues Through Intuitive Communication published by New World Library.

Ms. Marta Williams, M.A

Marta Williams, a biologist and animal communicator, is the author of Learning Their Language: Intuitive Communication with Animals and Nature, and Beyond Words: Talking with Animals and Nature. She received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Resource Conservation and an MS from San Francisco State University in Biology. She worked for many years as a wildlife biologist and an environmental scientist before she began practicing as a professional animal communicator in 1991. 

Marta has written articles for the Whole Horse Journal, Natural Horse Magazine, Ride Magazine, and Healing Garden Journal. She was featured in Intuition Magazine, the Whole Horse Journal and Arthur Myers' book, Communicating with Animals. She lectures, teaches and offers consultations for animals by phone or by email, worldwide.Visit her website www.martawilliams.com

   

Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life

MP3 File  Length-30 minutes, 26 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Bruce Goldstein, author of Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life published by Da Capo Press.

Mr. Bruce Goldstein and Ozzy

Bruce Goldstein is a full-time doggie daddy, an expressionist painter, a screenwriter, and a first-time author. A Staten Island graffiti artist turned New York City commercial artist, Goldstein has worked at several of the most respected, creative advertising agencies, including Chiat/Day, Deutsch and Hill Holliday. His work has appeared in The Bark magazine and New York Dog. Goldstein received a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology in 1992. He lives in Manhattan with his furry roommate, Ozzy.  Visit his website.   

Riding into Your Mythic Life: Transformational Adventures with the Horse

MP3 File  Length- 30 minutes, 37 seconds

Deborah Harper President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Patricia Broersma author of Riding Into Your Mythic Life:Transformational Adventures with the Horse published by New World Library.

Ms. Patricia Broersma

Following a ten-year career as a horse trainer and instructor, Patricia (Trish) Broersma turned to therapeutic riding sixteen years ago. A certified therapeutic riding instructor, she founded and directed a nonprofit therapeutic riding program in San Antonio, Texas, and went on to re-establish, direct, and act as head instructor for HOPE Equestrian Center in Ashland, Oregon She has been a certified instructor with North American Riding for the Handicapped for ten years and is currently of the Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association, a section of NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped) for promoting standards of safety and professionalism in educational and mental health activities with horses.

Her writing has appeared in Practical Horseman and other publications. She holds a master’s in English from the University of Michigan and was a licensed massage therapistfor 12 years until 2007 . She has worked with Jean Houston as a staff member in her multicultural human development work for the past fifteen years. She lives in Ashland, Oregonand has three grown children. Visit her website.

Fowl Weather: How thirty-nine animals and one sock monkey took over my life

Length-36 minutes, 23 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Bob Tarte, author of Fowl Weather: How thirty-nine animals and one sock monkey took over my life published by Algonquin Books.

Bob Tarte

Bob Tarte is a freelance writer who has written for a number of publications, including The Beat magazine, the Boston Globe, The New York Times, the Whole Earth Review, and the Miami New Times. He lives in Lowell, Michigan, with his wife, Linda, and more animals than we can list here. Bob is also the author of Enslaved By Ducks. Visit his website.

Enslaved by Ducks: How one man went from head of the household to bottom of the pecking order.

Length-33 minutes, 6 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Bob Tarte, author of Enslaved by Ducks: How one man went from head of the household to bottom of the pecking order published by Algonquin Books.

Bob Tarte

Bob Tarte is a freelance writer who has written for a number of publications, including The Beat magazine, the Boston Globe, The New York Times, the Whole Earth Review, and the Miami New Times. He lives in Lowell, Michigan, with his wife, Linda, and more animals than we can list here. Bob is also the author of Fowl Weather: How thirty-nine animals and one sock monkey took over my life. Visit his website.

From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava

Length-18 minutes, 19 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman, author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava with Melinda Roth, published by Lyons Press.

Jay Kopelman is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, CA in September 2004, as the Special Operations Forces Liaison Officer for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF), Jay deployed to Iraq to train the Iraqi Special Forces. In October, he was assigned as the liaison officer to an Iraqi Army battalion, and in November they entered Fallujah to battle insurgents for control of the city. It was there that he met and adopted Lava, a five week old puppy abandoned during the during the invasion.

Following his return to the United States, based on his experiences in Iraq, Jay was asked to help train the Marines who would return to Iraq as advisors to the Iraqui armed forces and the police. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for advisor training at I MEF.

Jay lives in La Jolla, CA, with his wife, Pam: son Mattox; stepson Sean; their two dogs, Lava and Koda, and Cheddar the cat.  Both Jay and his wife, an anthropologist, are avid surfers who make annual pilgrimage to Costa Rica. They also spend time skiing, camping waterskiing/wakeboarding and rock climbing. Visit his website.  Watch a video of Jay and Lava.

Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet

Length-46 minutes, 2 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Reverend Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet published by New World Library.

Reverend Gary Kowalski

Reverend Gary Kowalski is the author of bestselling books on animals, spirituality and nature. His first volume, The Souls of Animals, which explores other species’ capacities for love, creativity, and self-awareness, has been re-released from New World Library, after being translated into Chinese, German and French, and selling over 80,000 copies worldwide. His second book, Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Pet, was featured in both One Spirit and the Quality Paperback Book Clubs and remains a valued resource for those grieving their animal companions.

In 2001, he published The Bible According To Noah: Theology As If Animals Mattered (Lantern Books), a critical look at our religious traditions and the need for a more earth-friendly scripture. Most recently, his book Science and the Search for God (Lantern, 2003) probes discoveries in physics and life sciences that point toward a new estimate of humanity’s place within the wider universe.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Divinity School, Rev. Kowalski is an ordained minister currently serving the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, Vermont.

Shelter Dogs

Length-28 minutes, 6 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Traer Scott, author of Shelter Dogs, published by Merrell.

Traer Scott, a fine art photographer with a background in portraiture and fashion, was raised as an only child in a house full of animals. A menagerie of cats, wounded wild animals, birds, snakes and dogs were her most constant childhood companions. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and two beautiful rescued dogs. Visit her website.

The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective

Length-1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interview Ms. Kat Albrecht, author of The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective with Jean Murphy, published by Bloomsbury USA.

Ms. Kat Albrecht

Kat Albrecht is an award-winning former police bloodhound handler, crime scene investigator, search and rescue manager, and police officer turned investigative pet detective. She is the founder of Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit organization working to establish community-based lost-pet services.

Kat lives in Clovis, California, with her three dogs and three cats. Visit her website.  For suggestions on how to find a lost pet, visit Missing Pet Partnership.