What’s Your Word of the Day?

Simplify.

This is a focus for so many of my clients.

In a world of having more and striving for more, people are asking themselves, what’s the point?

Not only do they feel tired, burned out and overwhelmed, their relationships with their partners, family and even their dogs are strained.

The work they get to do with me is they begin shifting out of the focus of doing more and instead, re-evaluate where they choose to put their focus, intention and energy.

They begin reorganizing their priorities to fit their values.

They get to go back to the essence of how they want to show up in the world and within their relationships.

They are stepping out of the prescribed ways of systems telling them how to live or what to do.

They are pulling the curtain back on their vulnerability and exposing their potential that resides within themselves.

This isn’t without fear.

They move in the direction of the fear and face it head on and change their lives because they learn that what is on the other side of fear is what they want.

They desire more peace, clarity and ease within their lives and their relationships.

While the fear can feel paralyzing at times and you’re left wondering “is this still what I want the direction my life to go”.

When you feel you can’t, you have the opportunity to lean into your support and feel that I got you.

I’ll cheerlead you and support you in taking the next brave step in whatever way this is for you.

Take the break.

Go after the job of your dream.

Challenge the old ideas of what it’s like to live life with your dog.

Set boundaries informing others how to treat you and your dog.

Say no to the things that don’t serve you or that is harmful or inhumane for your dog.

Say yes to the things that inspire you in your life.

You get to make the conscious choice to greet fear, ask it what it’s message is and let the fear know, you got this.

When you get to work with me, you get to receive an opportunity to focus on what really matters.

What matters is what you decide with an open heart informing you of your dreams.

How do you want to build your life and what does it get to look like?

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Katherine Porter is a force free, reward based dog behavior advisor and consultant serving clients and their companion dogs worldwide. Her calm and gentle approach in coaching clients in effectively communicating what they want to their dog blends her MSW background into her dog training and behavior practice. Katherine was a behavior consultant for Heeling Hounds after graduation. She opened Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC when the military relocated her family to Fort Sill, OK in 2015. During this time, she volunteered with Rainbow Bridge Can Wait where she provided post adoption consultations to new pet parents. She also developed and implemented tailored behavior modification plans for highly reactive dogs residing at the shelter. She also provided educational programs to military children through interactive workshops at the Fort Sill School Age Center. In 2017, Katherine relocated Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC to Germany. She served the Armed Forces communities in Bavaria. She continued coaching and advising her clients in addressing their companion dog’s fearful and reactive behavioral issues. Katherine takes a Do No Harm approach first and foremost in providing behavioral plans. She is committed in serving clients with gentle and modern science approaches in modifying behavioral concerns such as reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety and fear based responses. Katherine is a member of the Pet Professional Guild. She is focused on integrating a holistic and modern approach in addressing her client’s pet companion reactive behavior issues.

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