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The Animal's Voice - How I Discovered My Gift of Animal Telepathy, Ditte Young · The Animals Voice

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  [SPEAKER_01]: they come for us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They protect us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They change us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But what if they could also speak to us?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the animal's voice, hosted by Ditte Young, internationally renowned animal communicator, telepath, licensed therapist, intuitive coach, and best-selling author.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Each week, you'll hear extraordinary stories of connection, healing, love, loss, and transformations through the eyes of the animals who share our lives, stories that challenge what we think we know, stories that open our hearts, stories that remind us we may never have been as separate as we believed, because every animal has a voice, and every voice
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Animal's Voice.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I am Ditte Young, and today I want to do something a little different, because instead of welcoming a guest and listening to their animal, I like to invite you to spend some time with me and get to know the person behind the microphone.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You may have watched my videos on YouTube, heard me on another podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: are followed a few of the conversations we had here, but perhaps you have wondered how someone ends up doing this for a living or what kind of life brings a person to the point or communicating with animals becomes their work.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Wherever you are listening, imagine that we are sitting together with a cup of coffee and you are asked me to tell you my story.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I am a licensed therapist, a clairvoyant, a cranio-sacral therapist, and a healer, although most people know me as an animal communicator.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those titles describe different parts of my work, but they don't tell you very much about the little girl who grew up feeling different, or the young woman who once asked someone to help her shut down the very abilities she now uses every day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: To understand that part of me, we need to go back to South Korea where I was born.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My twin sister and I were adopted and brought to Denmark when we were 13 months old.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I grew up with my mom and dad in the town about 15 minutes outside the center of Copenhagen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had a good childhood with my family, but I always felt different from the people around
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There was the obvious difference in how I looked compared with many of my friends, and then there was the difference, nobody could see just by looking at me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was incredibly sensitive, and I experienced things that I didn't know how to explain.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I could hear animals communicating with me, see people who had passed away, and feel the
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All of this was part of my work, long before I had words for it, or understood that other people might not experience the same things.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I also had impressions about people dying, sometimes about how they would die, and about serious accidents before they happened.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: As a child, I didn't know what to do with that information, or who I could tell, without frightening them, or being misunderstood myself.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So much of it stayed inside me, and I carried it quietly as I try to find my place in the world around me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: As an adult, I've been fortunate enough to visit my biological family several times.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Some of them live in South Korea and some live in different states in the United States.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And reconnecting with them has been a deeply healing part of my life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Before those visits, I didn't expect to remember anything about a place where I was born because I was so young when I left, but being there brought up so much more than I imagined.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Something familiar came over me in the food, the smells, and the feelings I felt when I saw my family.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It felt as though my body and soul remembered something my conscious mind couldn't explain.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that experience gave me another way to understand where I came from.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Finding my biological family again matters to me because I had spent so many years trying to understand where I belonged and returning to my roots allowed me to meet a part of myself that had always been there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: During my teenage years, I was fascinated by spirituality.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to explore tarot cards,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and sometimes my friends joined me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For them, it might have been something interesting to try, but for me, the curiosity kept going long after everyone else had moved on.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I kept looking because I was trying to understand experiences that were already part of my life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: By the time I turned 19, however, my curiosity was mixed with a very strong wish for everything to become easier.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I went to see a well-known clairvoyan here in Denmark, a woman who had been among the first people to speak openly about spiritualism in this country, and I asked her to help me shut down my abilities.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't arriving with a beautiful plan to become an animal communicator or a teacher.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was a young woman asking for help with something that felt overwhelming.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She told me that you could teach me how to close it down, but you also offered another possibility.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps she said I could learn to understand and manage my abilities through clairvoyance, training rather than simply trying to make them disappear.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: During that conversation, she also told me that one day I would become a recognized animal communicator and that people around the world would know about my work.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Then she told me I would become the mother of a son with a special gift.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You have to understand that none of this made sense to me then.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't even know what animal communication was as a profession, and although the internet was beginning to become parts of our lives, it had an occurred to me to search for other people who experienced the same things I did.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had grown up with animals, but I didn't have a burning ambition to build my whole life around them, so I asked her why she saw animals in my future.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She simply told me that this was what she was receiving and I was left with information that I couldn't yet connect to the life I knew.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: As for the son with special gift, I put that prediction aside because I had no idea what it might mean or when it might become relevant.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What I did take from that meeting was the possibility that I could learn to live differently with my sensitivity and during my training I began in a way to come home to myself.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was the youngest student at the school, which could be overwhelming, especially when I found myself giving messages to grown men and women who became emotional and cried against my shoulder.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I could feel the importance of what was happening, but I didn't yet have the tools to understand how to carry that responsibility.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our teacher gave us exercises, designed to limit the ordinary clues we might otherwise rely on when reading someone.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: we worked blindfolded, explored impressions of objects behind close doors, and practiced receiving information through personal belongings.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Month, after month, I learned to pay attention to energy and become more familiar without information came to me rather than relying only on what I could see in front of me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I also began practicing with animals, and I was the only person in my class who took that direction.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't because I already knew where it would lead, I was simply curious.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to know what a hamster might communicate with a pigeon experienced, and whether there was something to receive from an earthworm or an ant.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I explored conversations with dogs and cats and horses with animals living in captivity and animals living freely and with animals who we were used to people and animals who were not.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And after I completed my clairvoyant training, I kept practicing and worked began to spread that a woman named Ditte Young could communicate with animals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: magazines contacted me for interviews and sometimes articles appeared in publications I didn't even know about.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't subscribe to horse magazines because I didn't have a horse myself, but somehow my name has found its way into those communities.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: During those years, I was also living another life during the week,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I worked as a production planner for the news at Denmark's largest television station, in an environment full of deadlines and major world events.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Something always needed to happen, something needed to be coordinated and the schedule didn't wait just because you needed a quiet moment to collect yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: In the evenings,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: On weekends, I would visit people and communicate with their dogs and cats or go to a stable to work with a horse.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I was quietly brought into the stable late at night because the owner didn't want other people to know they had invited an animal communicator.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That tells you something about the atmosphere around this work at the time because even
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  [SPEAKER_02]: admitting they had asked for it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I can still remember standing there in the cold, feeling the warmth of the horses' breath and their bodies, while everything around us became quiet.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They would stand in front of me, blinking and yawning as I worked with them, offering healing and listening to what I felt they shared.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: After the pace of the newsroom, being in that stillness felt like entering a completely different world, and I found myself translating one moving moment after another for their owners and writers.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I kept asking questions, because every time I thought I understood a pattern, another experience opened a door.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder how a horse could share something about what their person did at home when the horse had never been inside that person's living room.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I wondered how a dog could draw my attention to a particular time when they weren't walking around wearing a watch, or how a cat could convey that I interpreted as a particular day
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was also receiving impressions about animals who had passed away and about connections that seemed to continue beyond death.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And those experiences raised more questions for me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't arrive in this work with all my answers neatly arranged.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Much of what I understand today grew out of returning to the animals repeatedly,
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: this is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: People sometimes want to know whether there was one spectacular moment when I became completely convinced of my abilities, but my experience was more gradual, my confidence grew through many conversations with animals and the feedback I received from their owners.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Someone would recognize something I described or connect an impression to an experience in their own life and over time those conversations helped me trust what I was receiving.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Feedback still matters to me and it is part of the way I have built my master classes and training programs.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: because there must be room for the other person's perspective.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No two individuals perceive everything in the same way and finding a point of recognition between us is part of creating a connection that can develop into trust.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: that also means I have had to learn about interpretation because of course I can interpret something incorrectly, a telepathic image as I experience it is abstract.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It isn't like looking at a photograph on the wall or pressing pause on a television screen to examine every detail.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I receive something, and then I have to find a language for it, and that translation leaves room for misunderstanding.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Over the years I've become more careful about the details I emphasize.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't necessarily make color the center of an interpretation and I don't automatically assume that an impression of age is a precise number.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: An animal that is 20 years old may convey a sense of feeling young and full of life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And if I describe that feeling as a literal age, I may miss what matters in the message.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: experience has helped me recognize some of those possible misunderstandings, and my therapeutic training has also helped me become more aware of my own thoughts and reactions.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I have to notice when an opinion belongs to me when I am assuming and when something personal could influence the way I hear or describe an impression.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My intention when I work
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  [SPEAKER_02]: is to set myself aside as much as I can, so this question has room for the individual I'm there to understand.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: As I continued working, I noticed patterns in the animal's personalities and those patterns changed how I understood why people contacted me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Very often, the starting point was that the animal had a problem.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The dog was behaving in a difficult way,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The horse was doing what the writer wanted, or something in the relationship had become frustrating.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But when I listened to the animal, the picture was often more complicated than the description I had been given.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I experienced an animal reacting to feelings that was misunderstood, to needs that weren't being met, or to expectations that didn't suit their nature.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: their personality mattered and so did their motivation.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We humans can become so focused on the outcome we want that we forget to wonder what the situation feels like for the animal being asked, to produce it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That realization became a very important part of my work.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I want people to understand their animals from the inside as far as they could and to have an empathetic sensory experience of the animals perspective.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When I say that I want someone to become their animal for a moment, that is what I mean to let their own expectations soften enough that they can imagine or feel what the animal is experiencing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I also began to see how much the animal and the human influenced each other.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The animals living in our homes are in our care depends on us for food, activity, affection, and the practical conditions of their lives.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But the relationship carries much more than those practical things.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: the feeling we bring matters to, and I found that a conversation that began with an animal often opened into a very emotional conversation with their person.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This was one reason I knew I needed to train as a therapist, I had already experienced
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was seeing emotional responses in animal sessions as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Receiving information was one part of the work, but helping someone feel supported when that information touched something vulnerable required skills I wanted to develop properly.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My therapeutic education took four years alongside my regular job.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and I explored family therapy, shock trauma, and the ways relationships can activate feeling in us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It gave me tools for my own life and my professional work, and it helped me understand why an interaction with another individual can touch something much older or deeper than the immediate situation.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That understanding eventually became part of my work,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: with partnership dynamics between animals and their people, which I also write about in my books.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes an animal brings something forward in us that we haven't fully recognized, and sometimes the way we respond tells us something about ourselves.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Being willing to explore that can create more room in the relationship because we stop looking at what the animal needs to change and begin noticing our own part as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the things the animals have taught me is how much attention they give to the group around them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I often see dogs as very concerned with their family.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: sometimes only truly relaxing when everyone is home, and horses as deeply involved with the person they connect with or with the other horses in their herd.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Their sense of belonging and connection has may be think a great deal about the way we humans live.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We can become so absorbed in our own worries and needs that we lose sight of the whole relationship.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I include myself in that because being human means carrying thoughts and feelings with us, even when we intend to put them aside.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We may go to the stable, hoping to forget a stressful day or sit down with our dog, trying to be present.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But what is happening inside us doesn't always disappear just because we have changed locations.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Incessions, I've often felt that people underestimate how much their animal pick up about their lives.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I receive impressions about tension around the divorce, uncertainty about a job, or feelings connected to work or school, and the owner may be surprised that these things have entered a conversation about their animal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: To me, it is another reminder that the relationship doesn't exist separately from the rest of our lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All of these experiences were teaching me about communication before I understood how much I would need those lessons in my own family.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: About 10 years after I began my clairvoyant training, I became the mother of my son, Philip, and suddenly that prediction I had put away years earlier, took on a new meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had a song, just as my teacher had set, and I began to understand what she might have meant when she described a child with special gifts.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Philip was born with a visual impairment, and a minor brain injury, and he is autistic.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: From the beginning, I experienced him as a child who felt a great deal, including things
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  [SPEAKER_02]: in my experience of him when he couldn't see with his physical eyes, could sometimes show up in a very different way through his inner awareness, and I felt he could sense deeply into the people around him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He has shared experiences of seeing people who have passed away and I have always felt a spiritual connection in the way he meets the world.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He notices whether someone feels calm or stressed, and whether he feels safe with them, and I have often felt in response to a person's energy before anything else.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For me, as his mother, that meant learning to pay attention to much more than what was being set out loud.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Philip was partly non-speeking when he was little, what I experienced as our telepathic connection to communicate with him
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We played little games where I would think of a particular fruit, and sent him an image, and then he might suddenly say, at all, I repeated these games with him many, many times, and they became part of how I explored the connection between us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: At the same time, it mattered enormously to me to help him develop his spoken language, because I wanted the rest of the world to have more ways of understanding what he had to say.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The connection I felt with him was precious, but I also wanted him to be able to express himself beyond his relationship with his mother, helping him with that has been an ongoing journey in our lives.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Even now, I sometimes experience him calling for me from his room without speaking aloud and when I go in, he actually needs my help.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I can also be in the living room and feel that I am calling him inwardly and then he comes to me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: These are such sweet familiar moments between us and they are part of the way I experience the closeness and trust we share.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But being full of his mother has taught me much more than how to explore that connection.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He has taught me about structure, about patterns, and about the importance of being precise.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Things that other people might consider small can make a real difference in his experience of the world, and understanding that has asked me to become more attentive to the way I communicate and the conditions around him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He also taught me to lead from my heart, and to become the lioness I needed to be for him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I realized that he wasn't going to fit easily into all the boxes, society had already made, and I couldn't build our lives around asking him to become someone else, just so those boxes would be more convenient.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I needed to help the world, make room for the person he was.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When I look back now, I think the animals prepared me for becoming Philip's mother long before I knew I would have him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They had already taught me that communication could happen without words, and that the behavior I could see was only part of the story.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If a dog reacted aggressively, a horse refused to move forward, or a cat suddenly changed their behavior, I had learned to wonder whether they were trying to express.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: rather than concentrating only on how to stop the behavior.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That way of listening became incredibly important with Philip because so much of the world around him seemed focused on what he could do, what couldn't he see, what couldn't he understand, and what couldn't he learn in the same way as other children?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those questions might describe some of the challenges, but they couldn't tell me everything about the child I loved
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The animals have already helped me understand that when an individual doesn't respond in the way we expect, we may need to look more closely at the question we are asking
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  [SPEAKER_02]: or the environment we have created.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we need to change the way we communicate so that the other person has a real opportunity to be understood.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That was one of the greatest gifts I brought into motherhood because I had already spent years practicing how to listen beyond ordinary language.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're listening to the animal's voice, with internationally recognized animal communicator, Ditte
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Young.
• 26:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever looked into your dogs, horses, or even your cat's eyes, and wondered what they were trying to tell you?
• 26:44
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If, we learn how to listen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A learning when both ways, because Philip made me more attentive and my work with animals, he reminded me how easily we can believe that we understand someone when we have only interpreted what they are doing, what looks like resistant, resistance, restlessness, or unwillingness from the outside can have a very different explanation when we take the time to understand the experience behind it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He taught me to keep asking and to stay curious longer, especially when the first explanation seemed convenient.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He also deepened my understanding of sensory experience of how intense the world can feel, and why structure and predictability can be so important.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those lessons came back with me into my sessions, where I became even more aware of how
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  [SPEAKER_02]: In that way, the animals and Philip have been my teachers from different parts of my life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The animals taught me how to listen to Philip and Philip taught me how important it is Never to stop listening to the animals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I carry that connection with me every day, because it has shaped both the mother I became and the work I continue to do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I often describe Philip and me as Batman and Robin, because that is how our partnership feels to me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He shows me something, and I find ways of carrying when I learn into the world.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And together we have followed a path that I could never have planned before he was born.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I am deeply grateful to him for that, even though following that path has also asked me to make some very difficult decisions.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: One of those decisions was leaving my regular job and becoming self-employed full-time as a therapist, Clairvoyant, and animal communicator.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had worked with clients for years by then, but there is a big, big difference between doing that alongside a stable job and asking your own business to support your life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Motherhood changed what was possible for me and trying to meet Phillips needs while continuing in an ordinary job had become impossible.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There was security in having a paycheck, a pension, paid vacation, and clear tasks that I knew I was expected to do each day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There were colleagues around me and I belonged to a workplace where a responsibility was shared.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: moving into my own business meant giving that familiar structure and accepting that I would be the person who had to speak, do the work, and take responsibility when something didn't go as planned.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That was a very vulnerable change to make during a period of serious financial uncertainty.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I remember wondering who would choose to pay for a clairvoyant reading or a conversation with their animal when so many people were worried about their finances and the cost of everyday life.
• 30:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't simply assume that because this work mattered to me that would be enough people able and willing to make it part of their lives.
• 30:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: But people did come, including people who wanted help finding a better way forward for themselves and animal owners who wanted the very best for the animals they loved.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: my little distance began to grow at a time when I had been afraid it might not, and I felt both humbled and incredibly grateful.
• 31:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their trust made me even more determined to do the best work I could, because I knew that asking for help could mean a great deal to them.
• 31:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: My family supported the choices I made, because they could also see how difficult it was to combine caring for a newer divergent child with a conventional job.
• 31:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Still I am sure my parents were worried about that order.
• 31:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was a career they didn't fully understand, in a world that was not always ready to receive it, and naturally they wondered whether I could make a living from it.
• 31:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: as the work grew and more interviews and television opportunities arrived, I think that gave them some peace.
• 32:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: They could see that I was thinking carefully about the choices I made, and that I wasn't saying yes to every opportunity simply because it wouldn't, or it would put me in front of a camera.
• 32:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to participate in settings where there were
• 32:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I declined entertainment programs and competitions that wanted me to perform my ability as a contest.
• 32:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was more interested in documentaries that approached telepathy with curiosity and a willingness to investigate.
• 32:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And those programs often included sessions with animals so that viewers could watch the process themselves.
• 32:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: and that remains important to me today because I would rather let people see an actual conversation than spend all my time arguing about what they should think of it.
• 33:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Outside those professional settings, reactions were often very divided.
• 33:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some people were fascinated and wanted to know more while others laughed at me or spoke to me as
• 33:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was told that what I did was the devil's work, that I must be mentally ill, or that believing in any of it made me crazy, and hearing those things from people at ordinary social events could be quite painful.
• 33:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you have been listening to the animals' voice, you know that I believe having a voice is about so much more than being able to speak.
• 33:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes my guests in the studio aren't here because they need help understanding their animals.
• 33:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're here because they have a non-speaking child, a child who has a voice, a child who has opinions, feelings, worries, dreams, and so much they want to share with the people they
• 34:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But sometimes putting all of that into spoken words simply isn't possible.
• 34:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is very close to my own heart, because I'm also the mother of a non-speaking nor divergent son.
• 34:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's why I have created my telepathy masterclasses.
• 34:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's for parents and caregivers who want to explore another way to listen and connect beyond spoken language, but it's also for anyone curious about telepathy who believes we can create a more understanding and compassionate world.
• 34:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: when we learn to listen beyond words.
• 34:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because a person who doesn't speak, is not a person without nothing to say.
• 34:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: An entire world may be inside, waiting to be heard.
• 34:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can learn more about my telepathy master classes at ditteyoung.com.
• 35:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.
• 35:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Even after many years of work, books, lectures and conversations, I still meet people who dismiss the subject immediately.
• 35:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: What saddens me most is the absence of curiosity, because there is such a difference between asking a sincere question and deciding that there is nothing worth asking about.
• 35:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can have a conversation with someone who wants to understand my experience, even if their perspective is very different from mine.
• 35:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Over time, I have developed a thicker skin, and I no longer feel that I must spend my life changing every person's opinion, and I can share what I experience and allow people to decide what they want to explore for themselves.
• 36:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are so many meaningful moments in my daily work and those are the moments I want to give my attention to.
• 36:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: That does mean they have never been times when I wanted to stop, of course they have.
• 36:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And some of those times when far beyond feeling misunderstood are being laughed at.
• 36:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the most serious experiences came after I was invited to speak on an outdoor stage at a large animal fair, where I talked about horse personalities and the behaviors associated
• 36:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I had invited several horses and riders onto the stage because I wanted the audience to see the difference between the animals I was describing.
• 36:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were looking at their personalities and what I received about their thoughts and I had chosen horses were quite different from one another so that the audience could follow what I met.
• 37:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: People said they knew where I lived, threatened to throw acid in my face, and threatened to find and kill my son.
• 37:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to say that carefully because it's a very serious part of my story, and it changed the questions I had to ask myself.
• 37:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: My address was subsequently protected and kept confidential, and I had to think deeply
• 37:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are other difficult experiences from this industry that I may share in another episode, but some involved debates with national team coaches or veterinarians and some involved people I had worked with turning away from me.
• 38:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: At times when my contribution helped and elite horse perform better, I felt that the result brought up competition and jealousy around me rather than the sense of teamwork I had hoped for.
• 38:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: For my perspective, we should have been able to celebrate a horse who was happier and more able to perform without everyone recognizing their part in helping that happen.
• 38:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Instead they were occasions when I felt that ego's got in the way and those experiences left me very, very disappointed and lonely.
• 38:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I had entered the work with a very sincere wish to help animals be heard, and I didn't always understand why that became a struggle between people.
• 38:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: There were also so many opinions about which animal I should or shouldn't help.
• 38:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some people dislike that I work with elite writers, while others seem to question why I would spend time with a recreational writer or little girl and her pony.
• 39:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: There were opinions about a service dog, a hunting dog, a police dog, and it could feel as though whatever group I worked with, someone would tell me I have made the wrong choice.
• 39:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: People also want to me to know everything about every discipline surrounding an animal from dressage, jumping, inventing, to bits, saddles, shoes, dentists, tracking, hunting, agility, and I understand that animals live within practical circumstances and that the people caring for them have their own areas of expertise.
• 39:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: But what drew me to the work was understanding
• 39:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: and I needed to hold on to that purpose while working alongside other people.
• 39:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Too often, I felt that the conversation was being directed towards how we could get the animal to fit more successfully into a human expectation.
• 40:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I wanted us to be willing to examine that expectation too, and so low up at strength and my ability to hold that position.
• 40:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: He had taught me that understanding the individual matters, even when changing the environment or the plan is less convenient and asking the individual to adapt.
• 40:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: As more people saw my work in documentaries, I also began receiving messages from parents about their children.
• 40:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some described children who seem to have unusual spiritual experiences of their own, speaking to an empty wall, are saying they could see someone the adults couldn't see.
• 40:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Other parents wanted help understanding a child or a young person who couldn't readily express themselves through spoken language.
• 40:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: These families came with very different circumstances.
• 41:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some children were autistic, some experienced selective mutism, and some had brain injuries or difficulties with language, following, and accident.
• 41:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: But connected, the requests was the parents wish to understand more about the person they loved, and those conversations gradually brought different parts of my life and work together.
• 41:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: There was my own childhood experience of sensitivity, my years of listening to animals, my therapeutic education, and my life as philips mother.
• 41:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I had never sat down at 19 in plan for all those things to become one path, but through the families who contacted me, I began to see how they met, working with those children became a very meaningful part of my life, because it connected my professional experience with something I knew so personally as a mother.
• 41:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: At the same time, experience has changed the way I care for myself within this work.
• 42:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: When I was younger, I didn't pay enough attention to how much energy a session required.
• 42:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I would see as many as 12 clients in a day, and I tried to give the 12th person the same quality of attention I gave the first, because I didn't want anyone to receive
• 42:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Today I am better at protecting my time and recognizing my limits.
• 42:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know that I cannot personally help every animal and every child in the world.
• 42:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: However much I might wish I could, taking care of myself makes it possible to continue doing the work with the attention it deserves.
• 42:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that is something I have had to learn just as seriously as any technique I teach.
• 42:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is also one of the reasons teaching becomes so important to me.
• 42:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Early on, when I began seeing the patterns in animal personalities and relationships, I realized that I could create all the change I hoped for through individual sessions alone.
• 43:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: If more people could learn to listen and explore this connection with their own animals, then the work could reach beyond the hours I had available in my day.
• 43:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I began creating courses and teaching animal owners the techniques I used because I wanted them to have their own experience of becoming more connected.
• 43:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: My hope was that they would carry what they learned into their relationship and that some eventually shared it with others and that is the ripple effect I have wanted to
• 43:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: When I first spoke openly about animals having a voice, the skepticism was much stronger than some people might imagine today.
• 44:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Many approaches that are now more familiar were treated very differently than, and even the idea of seeking certain kinds of complementary care for an animal could provoke really cool.
• 44:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So part of teaching was also allowing people to explore something directly instead of relying only on the opinions surrounding it.
• 44:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Gratitude is a very important part of how I live with that.
• 44:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thank the universe every day, and before I work with another individual, I take a moment to acknowledge the opportunity I have been given.
• 44:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: In my own spiritual understanding, being grateful for my abilities is part of caring for them, and I never want to lose that sense of appreciation, simply because the work has become familiar.
• 45:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: When I look at where people listen to the animal's voice, I feel an incredible sense of wonder.
• 45:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are listeners in places such as Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Bali, across Europe, In Scandinavia and in Canada, the United States, South America, Africa and the Middle East.
• 45:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is extraordinary for me to imagine all of these people in such different surroundings choosing to spend time with these conversations.
• 45:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: this is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.
• 45:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think about the distance between that quiet stable where someone didn't want anyone to know I was visiting and the microphone I sit in in front of today.
• 45:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And back then a conversation might take place late at night away from other people's eyes and now those conversations can travel to someone on the other side of the world.
• 46:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel very honored to be part of that change because sharing the work openly means people can meet it in their own way and in their own time.
• 46:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: that is what matters to me about the animal's voice.
• 46:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to share the stories and experiences that happen when we make room for the animal's perspective, and I am so grateful to you to all people who allow us into something personal.
• 46:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: They are bringing an animal, they love, and sometimes a question that makes them feel vulnerable, and they are willing to let the rest
• 46:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I hope the program leaves you feeling good in a way that stays with you after the episode ends.
• 46:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps you notice how much individuality and animal has, or you feel moved by the relationship between the animal and their person.
• 47:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps something in a conversation reminds you of your own companion, and you begin wondering whether there is another way of understanding something that has been happening
• 47:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you already have a feeling that you sometimes know what your animal needs before you can explain how you know it, I hope these episodes encourage your curiosity.
• 47:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: You may want to explore that feeling more, pay closer attention, learn about the way I work.
• 47:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: What matters to me is that the relationship has room to grow and that your animal is met with a little more willingness to understand.
• 47:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't make this program with the expectation that every person who listens will share my beliefs.
• 47:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know what my experiences mean to me, and I want to tell you about them honestly, but you bring your own life and your own perspective to the conversation.
• 48:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: They consult with something valuable, inventing time together, and asking what becomes possible when we listen more carefully.
• 48:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: After all the years, what continues to motivate me is the opportunity to create love through the kind of work I know how to do.
• 48:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: We live in a world where there can be so much darkness, so much conflict, and so many people focused on protecting their own position.
• 48:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to contribute to a different kind of experience where someone feels met in a relationship becomes more connected.
• 48:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: In my own understanding, to love with these language, we can share beyond the spoken language that divide us.
• 48:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: As we come to what's the end of this time together, I find myself thinking about the little girl I was, the girl who had come from Korea, who was growing up in Denmark and who wanted to understand where she belonged.
• 49:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: The girl who experienced animals and people who had passed away, but didn't know what to do with those experiences or how to share it.
• 49:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: If I could sit beside her now, I would want her to know that there was more within her than she could see at the time.
• 49:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would want to tell her that the parts of herself she didn't understand would one day become part of how she held others and that her life could make a greater difference than she could imagine.
• 49:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would want her to feel a little less alone while she waited to discover that.
• 49:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: And when I think about my life now, I feel very, very grateful for the people and animals who have helped my way and my path and especially Philip who has taught me so much about love and listening.
• 50:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I am grateful for the people who trust in me and my work.
• 50:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for joining me on the Animal's Voice.
• 50:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I am Ditte Young, and I look forward to sharing another conversation with you next time as we keep making room for the animals and the people who love them to be heard.
• 50:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: If what you're hearing in the show has sparked your curiosity and you'd like to learn how I create such detailed telepathic conversations with animals, you can learn to do it yourself.
• 50:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: In my online masterclass animal telepathy mastery, I take you step by step through the way I've worked with animal communication for more than three decades.
• 50:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: You'll learn how animals communicate through thoughts, feelings, images, physical sensations, and emotions.
• 50:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And most importantly, how to begin recognizing the information you're already receiving from your own animal.
• 51:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because telepathy isn't about guessing, it's about learning to listen differently, trust what you receive, and build a deeper understanding of the animal in front of you.
• 51:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you're looking for guidance and a specific challenge, I've also created a library of online lessons with practical tips and tools that cover many of the questions I am asked every day.
• 51:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can find animal telepathy mastery and all of my online lessons at ddion.net.
• 51:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it is time to discover where your animal has been trying to tell you.
• 51:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the animal's voice with Ditte Young.