In this episode, I address the concept of passing stress down the leash to your dog and all of its variants.
I ask you to question what’s the chicken and what’s the egg? Which came first? Your stress or the dog’s behavior? Is your stress the result of your dog lunging or the cause?
What does worrying about your stress, sensitivity or emotionality do for you? Does it make you doubt yourself? Judge yourself? Try to change yourself? Are you believing that your work is to become less emotional? More confident?
You’ll learn why maybe all there is to it is to accept yourself for who you are.
Oh, and you’ll hear about how I deal with emotionality myself and crying in particular. It has something to do with the movies Top Gun and Marley and Me. Have a listen to see how those two link into things.
Links:
Marley and Me on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_%26_Me_(film)
Top Gun on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun
Would you like to stop worrying about stressing your dog?
Learn all about how those seemingly admirable thoughts can work against you, and why you don’t need to change yourself, just your thinking, when you coach with me.
