Wholistic Hounds

06/18/2026

When you finally do the thing you've been wanting to do for awhile 🥲🤩

When you run your own business, timelines are constantly shifting. Something you planned a year ago can keep being pushed off. And that's just the reality of being a business owner. But I'm a firm believer in the Divine Timing of everything and things happening when (and how) they're meant to. And today was a foundational moment for Wholistic Hounds.

I just completed the Foundations of Trauma Informed Care by Trauma Informed Oregon, an 8 hour CPD training course that covers the topic of trauma informed care and how it can be applied in a business or organization.

Since we focus on holistic healing, a lot of our clients and their pets have experienced some form of trauma or toxic stress. Because of that and the fact that I also have experienced trauma, offering trauma-informed care has always been a priority for Wholistic Hounds. The reality is that trauma isn't as rare as we might think, and more often than not, there is underlying trauma for both pets and their people.

Trauma Informed Oregon is an organization that offers free training to care providers. I am so thrilled for what I learned, the people I connected with and the hope this brings the community as a whole.

Trauma Informed Care is truly the future and all of us would be well-served to learn more about it.

During the class, we were prompted to explain in our own words what the purpose of trauma-informed care is. Here is what I came up with.

“The purpose of Trauma Informed Care is to offer a higher quality of care while prioritizing safety and preventing re-traumatization."

When we recognize that most businesses and organizations are not trauma informed, but rather trauma-inducing, we recognize that trauma-informed care needs to become the global standard in all care professions worldwide.

Thank you to TIO, the facilitators and all the folks who showed up for this training with the same goal in mind: to offer more compassionate care in a world that so desperately needs it.

To learn more about Trauma Informed Care or to take part in Trauma Informed Oregon’s free training, visit their website

https://traumainformedoregon.org/

https://traumainformedoregon.org/foundations-of-tic-modules/

06/17/2026

PSDs are very important and often overlooked in the service dog training world.

It’s interesting how people hear “seeing eye dog” or “guide dog” and immediately understand the purpose.

But mention a psychiatric service dog, and suddenly it becomes a debate.

Questions get asked. Assumptions get made. Disabilities get measured against someone else's idea of what "disabled enough" looks like.

The reality is simple: not all disabilities are visible, and not all service dogs guide people around physical obstacles.

Some guide their handlers through panic attacks, PTSD episodes, severe anxiety, dissociation, or other disabling psychiatric conditions.

A disability doesn't become legitimate only when other people can see it.

Service dogs are medical equipment, not public opinion polls. Their validity isn't determined by how visible the handler's disability may be.

Mental disabilities deserve the same respect, understanding, and accommodations as physical disabilities—every single time.

06/12/2026

On my journey of healing, I've recognized the need to accept human beings in their wholeness - the cruelty, the messiness, and yes, even the endless contradictions of our species.

The truth is, our animal friends help us heal so much because they're present and aware. They model for us what human beings CAN be, what we naturally are. Peaceful. Loving. Harmonious.

Remember humans are animals too, and it's time we go easier on ourselves and accept both the positive and negative qualites of who we are.

This really hits home when you think about the pure, uncomplicated love we get from animals. It makes you wonder- do we end up loving animals more than some people because human relationships are just so loaded with conditions, expectations, and the potential for causing deep pain?

For so many of us, animals are a constant source of joy, love, and healing precisely because they don't carry that baggage. Pets are entirely incapable of letting you down with the kind of calculated cruelty that humans are capable of. When the world feels heavy and people are exhausting, pets play a massive role in our healing by just being there, offering a quiet, non-judgmental presence and pure love.

Have animals been a source of love and joy for you? What role have your own pets played in helping you heal?

06/12/2026

Fresh-food diets always outperform ultra processed diets :)

🥦 More fresh vegetables. Less cancer.

In a peer-reviewed study published in JAVMA, researchers at Purdue University found that dogs🐶 eating vegetables several times per week had dramatically lower rates of bladder cancer. The more vegetables🥦🥕 dogs ate, the lower their risk appeared to be, even though the vast majority of dogs in the study were eating predominantly dry kibble. The study remains one of the most influential and widely discussed pieces of research examining diet and cancer risk in dogs.

One of the most surprising findings was that vitamin supplements did not show the same protective association as whole vegetables.

Why does that matter?

Because nutrition is more than nutrients.💊

Whole foods contain thousands of naturally occurring compounds that work together in ways we still don’t fully understand. Fiber nourishes beneficial gut bacteria. Polyphenols help regulate inflammation. Carotenoids, flavonoids, glucosinolates, and other phytochemicals support detoxification, cellular repair, immune function, and healthy aging.

Many of these compounds are absent from synthetic vitamin premixes because they aren’t classified as essential nutrients, even though they may play important roles in long-term health.

Meeting minimum nutrient requirements may prevent deficiency. But thriving may require much more than simply adding isolated synthetic nutrients to an ultra-processed diet.

Real food delivers far more than what’s listed on a nutrition label.

06/10/2026

5 years ago, I became certified in Animal Reiki at The Reiki Center in Columbus, Ohio.

This moment quite honestly changed my life forever!

As a practicing Animal Reiki Practitioner of now FIVE years, I've had the privilege of working with a wide variety of animals including both wild and domesticated. I've worked with clients and have also partnered with nonprofit organizations to offer Reiki Healing for shelter animals. Along with the profound healing journey that's come along with this sacred practice, I've also gained a surplus of knowledge, experience and wisdom.

I've seen Animal Reiki help animals who have been abused, abandoned and neglected. I've seen distant Reiki sessions slowly allow a dog who never let anyone touch her come out of her shell and allow belly rubs! I've seen Reiki allow many sensitive animals to feel safe and trust again. That in itself is the miracle of energy healing.

I've recently expanded my energy healing services to include new modalities such as Reconnective Healing, Rainbow Frequency Healing and something new that I'm developing myself (stay tuned)!

Since I became certified in Animal Reiki right before becoming certified in professional dog grooming, this set the stage for my whole career - allowing me to take a holistic, energetic approach from the very beginning.

Follow my journey to see where I go next!

06/09/2026

An important message about our feline friends and how to keep them and wildlife safe!

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Happy 6th birthday to June!!

This little girl right here has one heck of a rescue story. She was orphaned at just one day old after being found in a backyard garden still attached to the placenta. With her was her male sibling that came to be known as Cucumber. We rushed them to the Vet hospital promptly and they were both removed from the placenta. Unfortunately, the odds were stacked against Cuke, with the cord being wrapped around his tiny foot. He aspirated his formula and sadly passed away after the first day. Rest in love, little one.

05/27/2026

Greetings from Morgan and Jade!

Between meetings with clients, creating recipes and writing our recipe book, we are extremely busy! But with the weather warming up, we're still making sure to spend plenty of time outside in the sunshine.

We were pretty quiet over the last several months, but plan on seeing more of us this spring and summer, as there are many exciting things happening behind the scences at Wholistic Hounds!

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