Pets are Forever by Jenny Smedley

Author:Jenny Smedley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit / General
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2011-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

LESSONS FROM TYSON

Simon, a success coach in Australia, sent me this story which had me in tears, but it’s such a beautiful story that I hope you’ll forgive me if it has you, too, reaching for the tissues. At the end, though, there is a follow-up from me that might make you smile again. If you’d like to connect with Simon, his website details are in the Resources chapter at the back of the book.

As a writer and a success coach, I’ve spent much of my life studying what makes us humans do what we do, how we interact with each other and, above all, what makes us happy – or not. I’ve dedicated my time, my energy and my passion, not to making money and accumulating material possessions, but to learning how to inspire people – including myself – to be as happy as possible.

On this journey I’ve been fortunate to have had many wise and compassionate teachers, including some of the world’s top personal growth experts, and yet in all this time, my most insightful, wise, gentle and caring teacher was not a ‘guru’ or an expert, or even a human being. He was my faithful and utterly adorable darling dog, Tyson.

Before I met Tyson, I already wanted to be a success coach, but I had a wound deep in my heart that stemmed from not fully loving myself which prevented me from being truly successful, just as it does for millions of others. Now, thanks to Tyson, I am a success coach, my wound is healed and I’m living my dream life helping others heal theirs. And all because one kind-hearted dog was able to do what no one else ever could: he taught me how to love myself!

Tyson came into my life in the most remarkable way nine years ago, at a time when I had lost my way professionally, my relationship was on unsteady ground and, worst of all, I was suffering from a self-imposed sense of isolation brought about by the growing realization that, although I had many friends, I’d never met anyone in all my years – and all my travels – who was like me. I kept thinking that one day I would. But after 42 years, ‘one day’ had never come. I felt like a misfit, an aberration, an alien in a foreign world. I mean, I had two eyes, two ears and a nose. But the thoughts in my head and the feelings in my heart seemed to be different to everyone else’s. I seemed to feel emotions more acutely than others. For a grown man, I wept a lot – mainly at the images of suffering on the nightly news. Stories about war or hunger or – worst of all – animal cruelty pierced my heart as though it were me who was experiencing them.

I yearned to give love unconditionally, and yet I didn’t know how. So I shrank back into myself and slipped deeper and deeper into depression.

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