This is Quinn.
She’s our 2-year-old Aussie. She knew how to execute better on stress relief than I did last year.
As some of you may know my girlfriend is a dog trainer.
We started to have conversations about animal behavior and what she was learning from her mentor during the training process.
My deeper dive came after we had a knock on our apartment door one day.
Quinn started barking to protect her humans.(sheepdogs are protective of people not property)
When the slip in the door was left and the person that caused the stress went away, she shook her entire body as she had just come out of the water.
It’s something that once you see you can’t unsee. I started to notice it all the time with her.
If she heard a weird noise
If a dog came around a blind corner and scared her
A dog literally shakes their stress off before it gets stuck somewhere in its body.
I connected that to the Reflexive Performance Reset course I took years earlier. We hold stress, previous trauma, and other emotions in areas of our body.
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