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☾ Episode 3: Balancing assertiveness and receptivity ☽

In this episode of Kinship, Surabhi gently unpacks one of the most essential questions in relational life with dogs: How do we hold boundaries with love while staying open to communication?

Through stories, nervous system wisdom, and practical guidance, we explore how blending clarity with curiosity can help us move beyond control—and into connection.

In this episode, listeners will explore:

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☾ Episode 1: Softness is a praxis ☽

In this gentle, reflective episode of Kinship, Surabhi explores softness not as fragility, but as a radical, relational practice—one that invites deeper connection with our dogs and ourselves.

Together, we examine how choosing tenderness in moments of dysregulation can transform how we show up in relationship.

In this episode, you will explore:

• 𖤓 Why softness is a form of resistance—not weakness—in a culture obsessed with control

• 𖤓 How to meet canine behavior with curiosity instead of correction

• 𖤓 The link between fear, control, and our nervous system responses

• 𖤓 What it means to create safety through attunement rather than obedience

• 𖤓 Daily practices to reclaim tenderness as a path toward healing and connection

You can also engage with some inquiry after the episode:

🌹 where do yo feel the urge to control your dog? What might that urge be protecting or compensating for?

🌹 When you think about “softness,” what emotions or memories arise? Is there resistance? Grief? Relief?

🌹 what’s one small way you can practice softness this week—in how you respond, how you speak, or how you approach a situation?

Hope you enjoy this episode ❤️

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I sit down in this episode to chat with Soniksha, a relational psychotherapist, to discuss attachment styles in our relationships (amongst humans and with dogs) and the complexities of them. We talk at length about secure attachment, the importance of caregiving, tolerating separation and more. It's an evocative conversation that discusses attachment in non mainstream ways, so do tune in and let me know what you think of it.

ABOUT SONIKSHA VENKATESH:

Soniksha is a practicing psychotherapist based out of Goa, India. She currently runs a virtual practice, engaging with clients all across the country and world. She can be found at soniksha08@gmail.com

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Welcome to The Luchi & Mutton's Podcast! In episode 15, Anushree and I talk about what it takes to help a multi dog feel safe and connected with each other. Through our own personal journeys & professional expertise, we share common mistakes that dog parents end up making, explore the intricacies and complexities of dog to dog relationships in the same home and reconsider our role as in a set up like this. It's a conversation that's filled with lots of nuggets and insights. Hope you enjoy it!

Anushree Thammanna is a BHARCS certified consultant, an individual rescuer, a co-founder for a rescue organization committed to rescuing and rehabilitating pugs and a dog mom to 5 dogs. She can be found at https://www.anushreethammanna.com/

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Welcome to the Luchi & Mutton's Podcast. I'm your host, Surabhi Venkatesh, and I run Luchi & Mutton's Dog Behaviour & Nutrition here in India.

Happy Valentine's Day! In our 14th episode, I chat with lovely Andrew Hale on holding space, love & more for our dogs' lived experiences, his journey as an advocate for a more relationship & care based approach with our dogs (v/s a solely task based & obedience oriented approach) and his lovely, inspiring virtual Facebook community, Dog Centred Care.

Andrew is a certified animal behaviourist who works with dogs with a clinical behaviour approach. With over 15 years of experience, he follows a Dog Centred approach that's rooted in compassion & empathy to understand dogs better. Know more about his work: https://trainpositive.co.uk/

Check out the Dog Centred Care group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc

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I came across this question - "best tips to address counter surfing?" and I thought that this would make for a great episode. Find out what counter surfing is, why dogs engage in it and how we can address it, gently and with love.

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Welcome to the first episode of the new year! In this episode, I deep dive into the importance of sleep for our dogs' physical and behavioural health and why so many of them perhaps struggle with sleep deprivation. At the end of the episode, I invite you to engage in an exercise that will help you understand your dog's sleep habits better and support them in meaningful ways.

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In this episode, I share my observations of free living dogs in North Goa and what these taught me about dogs, our relationship with them and much more. Give it a listen and let me know what you think.

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I can't get over the fact that I have dedicated an entire podcast episode to spirulina but it's true - the lessons I learnt from feeding it to my dogs are so valuable. This isn't your usual safe/unsafe/superfood conversation - it's so much more. I hope you enjoy listening to it! Let me know what you think of it.

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September is Pain Awareness Month - it's an opportunity to learn more about pain in our dogs, its manifestations with behaviour , ways to manage it and so much more. Pain & discomfort often goes unnoticed in our dogs and so in this episode, I share the different ways that pain can show up for our dogs, both in terms of behaviours and other physiological conditions. I also talk about the role of stress in heightening and numbing pain perception and why this is a welfare issue for our dogs.

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Access the following resources to support your dog better:

Galen Myotherapy: www.galenmyotherapy.com

Canine Arthritis Management (CAM): https://caninearthritis.co.uk/

Pain always affects behaviour: https://blog.bharcs.com/2018/07/28/pain-always-affects-behaviour/

In this episode, I deep deep into something that got me starting on my dog care professional journey - food & its relationship with dogs. I talk about pillars of a fresh food diet, the importance of offering choices in what we feed our dogs, what we can learn about them and why I see food as a love language.

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Watch my talk with Andrew Hale from Dog Centred Care on Nutrition for the Heart & Soul here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBuHqN3oe6E

I talk a lot about nervous systems in my consultations with clients. Because the behaviours that we see not just in our dogs but all living beings are linked to the working of the nervous system. When we understand how this works, we are able to appreciate the nuance in our dogs' behaviours. In this episode, I start by sharing why I emphasise so much on the importance of calm dogs and then flow into talking about the polyvagal theory, (which has been a new and very interesting find to me) the importance of safety in the nervous system , the benefits of regulation and the value of seeing all behaviour as information and in their relevant contexts. Let me know what you think of this!

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☾ Episode 2: The violence of obedience ☽

What if this expectation of obedience from dogs and ourselves is actually perpetuating a culture of violence?

In this vulnerable episode of Kinship, Surabhi introduces the idea that demanding obedience from our dogs is an act of violence. It sounds loaded, doesn't it? It is, it really is.

She supports this with personal stories and reflections and arrives at through multiple lenses - toxic systems, nervous system understanding and more.

In this episode you'll explore:

𖤓 The hidden costs of obedience

𖤓 Obedience as a tool of control and power

𖤓 What dogs teach us about consent and autonomy

𖤓 The nervous system and trauma of coercion

𖤓 Reframing the relationship beyond obedience

Through this episode, I invite you to reimagine dog companionship based on trust, co-regulation, and mutual respect—where saying “no” is honoured, and softness becomes a radical act of connection.

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This was such a lovely, heartwarming episode. Sowjanya Vijayanagar, a certified canine behaviour consultant who runs Dog Pawmise, and I caught up about what it takes to be gentle with our dogs and ourselves, why gentle parenting is so much more than 'parenting', the difference between a gentle approach and force free training and so much more. I personally had so many brain lit moments in this conversation - I hope you do too.

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Website: https://www.dogpawmise.com/

Instagram: @dogpawmise

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Join the Gentle Parenting for Dogs group on Facebook and be part of a community of gentle caregivers.

Resources include:

https://responsiveparentingblog.com/

Beyond Behaviours by Dr.Mona Delahooke

Dog Knows by Sindhoor Pangal

As a pet parent, I was trained to believe that I have to teach my dog to SIT and it's perhaps one of the most important things to teach dogs. But I learnt (not so soon enough) that asking our dogs to sit repeatedly can have a detrimental effect on their physical & behavioural well being. In this episode, I unpack some of that impact. Let me know what you think!

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In this episode, I deep dive into the several ways that high intensity exercises like fetch, brisk walks, use of treadmills can impact our dogs' physical, emotional and behavioural health. It's a heavy episode but an important one. Give it a listen and tell me what you think about it!

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Research papers mentioned:

1. Time-activity budget of urban-adapted free-ranging dogs (Majumdar & Bhadra, 2019)

2. Physiological and behavioral reactivity to stress in thunderstorm-phobic dogs and their caregivers (Dreschel et al, 2005)

3. Physiological parameter values in greyhounds before and after high-intensity exercise (Pellegrino, 2018)

4. Effect of Moderate Treadmill Exercise on Some Physiological Parameters in Untrained Beagle Dogs (Piccione et al, 2012)

5. Effect of treadmill exercise on plasma Cortisol hormone level in German shepherd dogs (Rathore et al, 2010)

Not sure about what enrichment means? Or want to try offering enrichment opportunities for your dogs but don't know how to go about it? Tune into this episode and find your answers. In this one I talk about the importance and benefit of enrichment (backed by science), share a first hand experience of its impact with Mutton and discuss why food puzzles aren't the only form of enrichment for our dogs.

All You Need To Know About Enrichment: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/post/all-you-need-to-know-about-enrichment

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Studies referred to:

1. Effects of Olfactory & Auditoriy Enrichment on the Behaviour of Shelter Dogs (Amaya et al, 2020)

2. The Relative Benefits of Environmental Enrichment on Learning & Memory are greater when stressed - a meta analysis of interactions in rodents (Macartney et al, 2022)

3. Alleviating stress in zoo animals with environmental enrichment (Carlstead & Shepherdson, 2020)

4. Enrichment centered on human interaction moderates fear-induced aggression and increases positive expectancy in fearful shelter dogs (Willen et al, 2019)

5. The influence of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of dogs housed in a rescue shelter (Graham et al, 2005)

6. Behavioral effects of auditory stimulation on kenneled dogs (Kogan et al, 2012)

Does your dog struggle with acid reflux? Then this one is for you. Tune in to learn about what it is, why it happens and how to help your dog.

I'm Surabhi and I run Luchi & Mutton's Dog Behaviour & Nutrition. I offer private nutrition & behaviour consults to pet parents & dog caregivers to help them build more meaningful relationships with their dogs using a holistic view, science & empathy. Check out my work at:

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In this episode, I chat with Deepti Rao, founder of For the Love of Dog. Her brand is one of the first brands to introduce snuffle mats, long lines and more into the Indian dog household.

We talk about her journey of setting up a pet product business in a niche that was extremely new to the Indian dog parent consumer and her journey of navigating through the highs and lows. As a dog trainer herself, she brings great insight into balancing what both the dog needs but also what the dog parent looks for with products.

If you are small, women-led business, this is a great listen!

Check out the incredible products made by the For The Love of Dog here: https://fortheloveofdog.co.in/

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Welcome to episode 21 and what a fabulous episode this is. I'm so excited and honoured to have Sophie Gamand and Sindhoor Pangal join me for this lovely conversation.

We talk about approaching art keeping in mind the dog's autonomy and agency, how the "pet" industry has persistently commodified dogs and the influence that has on our relationship with them and how dogs are not just a window into the natural world.

I hope you enjoy this episode and are moved by it and left with lots of interesting thoughts and questions for your own journey.

Check out Sophie's work: https://www.sophiegamand.com/

Check out the courses at BHARCS Education: courses.bharcs.com

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Welcome to episode 20 of The Luchi & Mutton's Podcast. I think this episode is a total banger because of 2 reasons:

I'm chatting with some of my favourite people, Sowjanya & Eva, both are BHARCS graduates, running their own consulting practice;

I'm talking about something I've wanted to for a really, really long time and there was no better platform this.

I hope you enjoy this episode and find lots of insights & nuggets of powerful self-reflection - we will be back with a few more episodes on similar themes. See you soon!

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To follow Sowjanya's work, check out Dog Pawmise on Instagram & Facebook; to follow Eva's work, check out Noiacanins on Instagram

In episdoe 19, I chat with UK based dog trainer Niki French on whether dogs are really important for all dogs. Niki has been working with dogs for the last 5 years and she's the author of the best selling book, STOP! Walking your dog - a guide to walking with nervous, reactive and over sensitive dogs. She's done such a fabulous job of pushing this awareness that the UK now celebrates a #dontwalkyourdogday.

If you have a nervous/reactive/oversensitive dog with whom walks are a struggle, this episode is for you.

Find out more about Niki French here: https://puptalk.co.uk/

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I chat with Jessica Hyams from Little and Large Dogs, a certified canine behaviourist based out of London with a special focus on bull breeds. We talk about some of the 'traps' bull breed training fall into, what their complex and horrific history about this breed tell us about their behavioural responses and what could a kinder approach to support them look like. It's an incredible episode and I hope you enjoy it.

About Jessica:

She has spent years in non destruct rescue work, rehabilitating bull breeds. As a behaviour consultant, she focuses on the relationship between pain & behaviour, emotional regulation through enrichment and offering a neurological and ethological perspective on these breeds. She can be found at @littlelargedogsldn on Instagram and her website, littleandlargedogs.com

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Tune into episode 17 where I chat with Helen Moore, a canine behaviour coach with 14 years of experience and based out of Canada. She specialises in anxiety and trauma related behaviours. She’s also a certified EFT Tapping practitioner which allows her to support human caregivers, who share share our lives with dogs who are struggling with day-to-day life.

You can follow her work on Instagram at @caninewellnessandeft and @wholesomecanine

Check out: https://wholesomecanine.ca/

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Brad Yates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHZMZejDS4RIxDdBwoie9A
@tapwithbrad

The Tapping Solution

https://www.thetappingsolution.com/
@thetappingsolution

Sacha Bryce

www.coresoulwork.com/welcome@sachabryce.eft

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There is a shift happening - quiet, almost imperceptible, beneath the surface of everyday life. Women everywhere are waking to the truth that their relationships no longer hold the fullness of who they are becoming.

In this episode, we explore how our dogs often become the first relationship to show us what’s truly possible: connection that doesn’t rely on performance, compliance, or shrinking. Through presence, honesty, and raw authenticity, they reveal a new standard of relational possibility - one that can transform marriage, partnership, and all human connection.

Join me as we journey into this new dawn of partnership, uncover the conditioning women have carried for generations, and discover how to step fully into authenticity, expansion, and the relational life you were meant to live.

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In this reflective episode, we explore the complex emotional landscape of guilt as it shows up in the lives of women who care for their dogs.

From feeling guilty about leaving their pets home alone, to questioning if they’re doing “enough,” this conversation delves into how guilt can quietly shape daily caregiving choices.

Rather than pushing the feeling away, the episode invites listeners to sit with their guilt - to notice its texture, its tone, and its message. What is your guilt trying to tell you?

Through gentle reflection and observations, this episode guides women toward transforming guilt from a burden into a teacher, deepening both their self-compassion and their bond with their dogs.

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EP06: When love meets injustice

In this tender and thought-provoking episode, Surabhi explores what unfolds when love meets injustice—particularly in the lives of women who are deconditioning from control-based paradigms and reclaiming relational ways of being with their dogs.

Rooted in personal reflection, somatic awareness, and attachment-informed practice, this episode invites listeners to notice how systems of patriarchy, capitalism, and dominance have shaped the way we relate—not only to our dogs but to ourselves. We name the subtle, often invisible ways control masquerades as care, and we begin to imagine what justice can look like in the space between us and our animals.

Together, we explore:

• The internal conflict between deep love and inherited control

• How injustice shows up in training, relationship, and self-talk

• What relational justice looks and feels like in daily interactions

• Five grounded practices for fostering attunement, co-regulation, and relational integrity

This episode is an invitation to pause, soften, and remember: we do not have to choose control to feel safe. We can choose connection. We can choose presence. We can walk the path of love—without conditions, without coercion, without domination.

For those longing for a different way—with your dogs, your body, and your world—this episode is a gentle companion on the journey.

I'm so excited to welcome all of you into my Telegram community, The Sanctum. This is a community of like-minded women who are braving the journey of embracing relational attunement and coregulation with their dogs and, rejecting control based paradigms.

Step inside here to know more! 🕯️

☾EP05: Relating Beyond Empire: Dogs, Liberation & the Undoing of Power ☽

In this episode of Kinship, Surabhi explores how dog-human relationships can serve as portals to decolonial, anti-capitalist, and relationally just ways of being. Moving beyond obedience and ownership, she asks: what happens when we choose connection over control? What does it mean to listen, not lead?

Through reflections on free-living dogs, ancestral relational wisdom, and everyday acts of consent and co-regulation, this episode invites you into a radically different kind of love—one that heals systems, not just behavior.

This is not training. This is unlearning. This is kinship.

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☾ Episode 4: Secure attachment is the medicine ☽

In this heartfelt and reflective episode, Surabhi explores the concept of secure attachment as the foundation of healing—both in human relationships and in our bonds with dogs. This isn't just theory; it's nervous system-level medicine—a form of connection that reshapes how we and our animals relate, cope, and heal.

She also offers a special invitation to deepen your relationship with this medicine (details below ⬇️ )

In this episode, listeners will:

• Reflect on their own attachment patterns—with dogs and humans alike.

• Ask more often: “What does my dog need to feel safe?”

• Practice being present, attuned, and emotionally responsive to your dog.

• Consider connection as a healing tool—behaviour shifts when trust is built.

• Explore that healing doesn’t require fixing; it requires showing up with compassion.

• Hope you enjoy this episode! ❤️

  
  

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How do we hold space for ourselves without shutting out the people, and dogs, we love?

In this episode, we dive deep into the ways our Empowered Guardian Archetypes™ - the Companion, the Steward, the Reclaimer, and the Protector - shape how we set boundaries, navigate love, and honour our energy.

We explore the patterns that show up in everyday life: from the way your dog senses your tension and leans in for comfort, to the ways you co-regulate energy with your partner, friends, or family.

You’ll hear relatable, sometimes humorous examples that will make you think, “Oh my god, that’s me!” while also uncovering the deeper emotional lessons about love, safety, and consequence that influence the way you connect.

This episode is not about “rules” or “shoulds.” It’s about seeing your own instincts, owning your relational patterns, and learning to hold boundaries from a place of love, attunement, and self-respect.

You’ll leave with a gentle, empowering understanding for creating space in your relationships without shrinking, over giving, or losing your wild, intuitive power.

Whether you’re snuggled on the couch with your dog, sitting across from your partner, or reflecting on the people who matter most, this episode invites you to explore how your archetype shapes your heart, your boundaries, and your connection to the world around you.

Don't know your Empowered Guardian Archetype™? Take the FREE quiz here!

In this episode, I explore the profound connection between humans and animals, and why being around dogs can awaken a deeper sense of aliveness for us dog moms.

We dive into how women, in particular, have often been conditioned to suppress their nervous systems, limiting their capacity to fully experience life, connection, and joy.

Through insights and practical guidance, we uncover how returning to “wildness” with the support of dogs can help regulate the nervous system, restore vitality, and transform the way you show up in life and relationships.

This is an invitation to reconnect with your body, your instincts, and the untamed energy that makes you feel truly alive 💜

You can understand co-regulation. You can follow all the right accounts. You can know exactly what’s happening in your dog’s nervous system.

And still feel stuck.

In this episode, we explore why co-regulation can’t be learned through scrolling - and why so many thoughtful, deeply caring dog moms find themselves trying harder without feeling any real shift in their relationship with their dog.

This conversation is for you if you:

• understand co-regulation intellectually but struggle to embody it

• feel pressure to “be regulated” for your dog

• notice yourself monitoring, managing, or bracing in hard moments

• want a more grounded, attuned relationship — without self-abandonment

This isn’t an episode about doing co-regulation right - it’s an invitation to stop performing safety and start inhabiting it.

Work With Me Inside Attune

Attune is my 1:1 relational and somatic coaching program for dog moms who want to move out of theory and into lived, embodied co-regulation.

This work is:

• relational, not prescriptive

• somatic, not performative

• slow, practical, and deeply attuned

Inside Attune, we build the capacity to stay embodied, responsive, and connected with your dog, especially in the moments that feel hardest.

If this episode resonated in your body, you can apply for Attune via the link below.

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If talking about your business feels crunchy to you, then this episode is for you.

In this episode I name four specific fears that keep brilliant dog pros from talking openly about their business — and where each one actually comes from:
- The visibility wound: being seen as someone who wants money
- The "I don't want to come across as salesy" pattern
- The social media fear: why business content feels different from educational content
- The identity split: why the dog pro and the business owner feel like two different people

And how to take bold, brave action in spite of these stories.

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Episode 23: For four years, Eva was doing genuinely excellent work — working with client with reactive dogs, breaking down behaviour with real depth and compassion. And she was miserable doing it.

Not because the work was wrong. Because the shape she'd poured it into wasn't hers. Session-by-session consultations. Vague, everybody-with-a-dog positioning. A business coaching industry that offered her six-figures-in-three-months hustle culture or manifest-and-it-will-happen fluff — nothing that spoke to a woman who didn't want either.

So she did what a lot of us do: she assumed the anxiety was the price of admission. That if it felt wrong, she just hadn't figured it out yet.

This conversation is about what happened when Eva stopped trying to fit the mould and started asking what she actually wanted — and gave herself permission to build toward it, even when it looked like nothing else in the industry.

We talk about:

• Why "canine behaviour consultant" never fit, and what it meant to introduce herself differently
• The moment she realised she got to choose who she works with — and said no to men, full stop
• Getting specific about her soulmate client (women with reactive dogs whose lives have shrunk around them) after years of believing specificity would cost her bookings
• Moving from one-off sessions to a relational, three-month container — and why that structure was the one that actually matched how she wants to work
• Dissolving the split between "personal Eva" and "business Eva," and what got possible once she stopped keeping them separate

This is what happens when a brilliant practitioner finally stops asking permission to build the business that's actually hers.

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Why Dog Moms “Hop On, Hop Off” Training Approaches

Many dog moms - especially those living with complex, sensitive, or reactive dogs - find themselves cycling through training approaches. One method gives hope, another promises clarity, and another claims to be the answer. When none of them quite land, it’s easy to assume something is wrong.

But what if that pattern isn’t failure?

In this episode, we explore the unspoken truth behind why dog moms “hop on” and “hop off” training methods - and what it actually reveals about intuition, nervous systems, and the relational field between dog and human.

We talk about:

• Why complex dogs don’t respond well to surface-level or behaviour-only solutions
• How dogs read nervous system states, not just cues or techniques
• The hidden cost of relying solely on external authority while ignoring instinct
• What the “relational field” is and why it matters more than any single method
• How intuition is embodied data—not guessing or emotion
• The shift from fixing behaviour to co-regulating safety

This conversation is for dog moms who feel deeply, notice everything, and sense there’s more happening beneath the behaviour - yet haven’t always trusted that knowing.

If you’ve ever thought, “Why does nothing seem to fully work for my dog?”

This episode offers a different lens - and permission to stop searching for the perfect method and start listening to the relationship itself.

And if you are ready to make that shift, I welcome you inside my new 6-week group container, RESONANCE ✨ 

Resonance is a 6-week guided container with weekly audio teachings, weekly micro-practices, and live relational support - designed to help your nervous system shift out of vigilance and into felt safety so that you can: 

𓂀 Pause before stepping in when your dog hesitates, pulls back, or ignores you, instead of immediately redirecting or distracting

𓂀 Stop constantly scanning for triggers - other dogs, sudden sounds, dropped food, visitors arriving - and trust how your dog will respond

𓂀  Create space for your dog to sniff the floor when guests come in, hesitate before greeting someone, or take their time approaching something unfamiliar, without being rushed

𓂀 Stop bracing for the next issue, and caring for your dog feels lighter, calmer, and more connected

Step inside at an early bird pricing that gives you immediate access to the container + 1 BONUS Audio Teaching to get started on your journey: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/resonance 

Do you ever feel like your empathy is costing you your energy in marriage?

In this episode, we explore why women who’ve done the work- emotionally, relationally, and socially—- often slip into overgiving when they feel bad for their partners. We unpack how empathy can quietly turn into self-erasure, why this pattern is so common, and how it leads to resentment and disconnection.

You’ll hear relatable marriage scenarios, a powerful reframe on emotional labour, and an unexpected lesson from dogs on how to stay present without abandoning yourself.

If you’re a married dog mom longing for more aliveness, clarity, and empowerment in your relationship, this episode will speak to you.

Plus, learn about Untamed, my group coaching container for dog moms ready to reclaim their voice and energy - guided by their dogs.

Know more about Untamed here

Meeting new dogs doesn’t have to mean pushing past discomfort, rushing greetings, or aiming for “good behavior.” When we center nervous system safety, dog introductions can become calmer, clearer, and more respectful - for everyone involved.

In this episode, I share 5 nervous system truths that support safer dog-to-dog interactions, including:

• Recognising calming signals
• Checking in with your own nervous system
• Understanding how your dog typically interacts
• Choosing environments that support regulation
• Reframing “good” interactions into safe ones

This episode is for dog moms who want to move away from social pressure of "getting it right" and toward regulation, consent, and connection.

Link to the FREE Canine Communication course: Check it out here

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Episode 22 : From Five Years of Dreading the Work to a Four-Figure USD Offering — A Conversation with Sowjanya, Applied Canine Ethologist

What happens when a brilliant dog pro spends five years building a business she doesn't actually enjoy — and then decides to burn the model down and start again?

In this episode I'm in conversation with Sowjanya, a Certified Canine Behaviour Consultant and Applied Ecologist who has been building a decolonial dog behaviour practice - one that centres free-living dogs, canine autonomy and the conversations the industry isn't having yet.

Sowjanya came to me in February 2026 with a business that worked on paper and was draining her completely. Five years in. One-on-one sessions that felt energy-sapping rather than energising. Prices she knew were too low but couldn't figure out how to move. Business advice that never quite fit. A corporate job she'd gone back to just to survive financially.

In four months, everything changed. In this conversation we talk about:

• What it actually felt like to spend five years doing work she loved intellectually but dreaded delivering — and why it took so long to name it

• The certification trap — how she kept upskilling hoping credentials would justify prices that never moved
• Why every piece of business advice she tried felt like trying to fit into clothes made for someone else's body
• The moment she gave herself permission to stop doing one-on-one work entirely — and what that unlocked
• How she went from thinking a four-figure USD price was a fantasy to having people actually sign up for it
• What getting specific about her soulmate client taught her about herself — and why it became a way of reconnecting with her own experience

Sowjanya's first premium priced learning community container Fight or Flow launches this week. She is proof that the business model the industry handed you is not the only one available — and that sometimes the most financially transformational thing you can do is stop doing the thing that's draining you.

If this episode inspires you, step inside F--k The Rules: a week long sprint for women dog pros who are done building their business by a rulebook they never agreed to.

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20-25 August 2026.

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The money wounds running your dog pro business — and how to start seeing them.

Most dog pros assume their pricing problem is a strategy problem. It's almost never that. Underneath the benchmark pricing, the pre-emptive discounts and the invoices that apologise before they arrive is something older and deeper - a specific, conditioned relationship with money that was shaped long before you opened your business.

In this episode we go into exactly that. Where your relationship with money came from - the family messages, the cultural conditioning, the industry normalisation of undercharging that made low prices feel like integrity.

I walk you through 💵 5 money wounds 💵 so you can start to recognise which ones could be yours — and why naming them is always the first step to shifting them.

We close with one question to sit with this week — not an action, not a strategy, just a reflection that starts to move something.

→ Take the Permission Blueprint Quiz to find out which permission wound is most alive in your business right now: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/permission-quiz
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There's a client somewhere in your history who you still think about. Not because the case was difficult — because something went so right you caught yourself thinking: if every client was like them, I would never want to stop doing this work.

That's your soulmate client. And the chances are - they've already been in your world.

In this episode, we make a distinction that changes everything: the difference between an ideal client avatar and a soulmate client. Then I walk you through a four question exercise that goes through your existing client history and pulls out the pattern - who did the work, who got results that surprised you, who referred people exactly like themselves, who left you feeling more alive not more drained.

By the end you'll know exactly who your soulmate client is - and how to start speaking directly to them in everything you create.

Want to get exclusive content like this? Join The Rebel Dog Biz Club - a free and exclusive email club for women dog pros ready to redesign their dog business - and make it feel so much more financially, emotionally and spiritually nourishing.

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Welcome to The Permission Sessions.

A podcast series exclusively for the woman dog pro who is running her dog-centred business - but not quite fully in love with it yet.

You're good at what you do. You've been at this long enough to have proof of that. But somewhere between the work you dreamed of doing and the business you actually built, something got lost. The joy got a little quieter while the exhaustion got a little louder. And the gap between what you earn and what you know you're worth keeps showing up in ways you can't quite ignore anymore.

This series is for that woman.

In The Permission Sessions we explore what it actually takes to build a dog pro business that reflects the full depth of who you are - your expertise, your values, your vision, and yes, your bank account. Not by following someone else's blueprint or by doing more of what's already draining you. But by giving yourself permission - to charge differently, to offer differently, to market differently, to show up in your business as the full, unapologetic, untamed version of yourself that your best clients already know you to be.

No generic business advice. No hustle culture dressed up as strategy. Just honest, specific, inside-out conversations about what it takes to build a business you're actually in love with.

Let's get into it 🍿

The first episode in this series is:

3 Signs Your Business Was Built Around The Industry Mould And Not Around You

If you've been in your dog pro business for a few years and you're still waking up on the first of the month doing mental math - this one's for you. I

n this episode we look at 3 of the most common patterns that keep brilliant, experienced women dog pros stuck, underpaid and exhausted - and why none of them are a reflection of your ability or your commitment to this work.

We also look at what you can start doing differently this week - one small shift at a time.

Show this episode some love by tagging @luchiandmuttons on your IG stories or by sharing it with other incredible women dog pros!

This episode is part of the mini series - Meeting Your Feral Self.

The feral woman has been misrepresented.

In wellness spaces, in reclaim-your-wildness content, in the corners of the internet that celebrate feminine rage and burning it all down — the feral woman has become an aesthetic. A brand. A performance of liberation that looks nothing like what going feral actually feels like from the inside.

In this episode I'm going back to the source — to Clarissa Pinkola Estés and the Wild Woman archetype she named in Women Who Run With Wolves — and using it to show you who the feral woman actually is.

Not the woman who burned everything down.

Not the woman who stopped caring.

Not the woman who is performing wildness for an audience.

The woman who stopped pretending she didn't care. Who stopped disappearing inside the things she was trying to protect. Who started performing for no one — including herself.

And who you've already been — in at least one relationship — for longer than you know.

In this episode:

• Why the popular version of the feral woman is doing more harm than good — and who it's leaving behind
• What Clarissa Pinkola Estés actually meant by the Wild Woman archetype — and why it's nothing like the aesthetic
• The woman gone pale — Estés's description of what happens to a woman who has been separated from her instinctual nature for too long
• Why the feral woman is not the woman who stopped caring — but the woman who stopped pretending she didn't
• Why going feral is not destruction — it's the relational art of being fully present in your closest relationships without disappearing inside them
• The dog as the daily, living expression of the Wild Woman archetype — and why most women have been in relationship with her every single day without knowing it
• The Mirror Principle™ as the Wild Woman archetype in action
• What the identity shift from situational to structural ferality actually feels like — and why it shows up not in grand gestures but in the specific texture of a Tuesday

If this episode landed for you:

The Wild Room is my free private Telegram community for women who are done being the most attuned person in every room and the least attuned to themselves. Inside you'll find audio transmissions, the replay of the Not A Fucking Good Girl Anymore immersion and first access to everything about FERAL.

Join The Wild Room: https://t.me/+bnXMSaPs-ocxNGFl

If you're ready to go further:

The Relational Baseline is a live 2 hour coaching workshop on 24th June — for women who are ready to raise the standard of how they're met in the relationships that matter most.

Wild Room members attend free. For new women: USD $11

Sign up for The Relational Baseline: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/the-relational-baseline

FERAL — the 9-month container:

Where the Wild Woman stops being who you are with your dog — and starts being who you are everywhere.

Opening ceremony 11th July 2026.

Program Details: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/feral

This episode is part of my mini podcast series called Meeting Your Feral Self 🐺 🔥

Most women have experienced ferality.

The moment she said the thing. Held the limit. Stayed in her truth when everything in her wanted to fold.

And then - gradually, almost without noticing - she went back to old patterns and responses.

In this episode I'm naming one of the most important distinctions in this entire body of work: the difference between situational ferality and structural ferality. And why one gives you really good moments - and the other changes who you are.

I'm talking about what it actually takes for the nervous system to reorganise - not just understand the pattern, but change it at the level where it actually lives. I'm going into the cultural and generational weight of what she's carrying - and why she is often fighting patterns that predate her own experience entirely. And I'm naming what the system — patriarchy, toxic capitalism — has at stake in keeping women situationally feral rather than structurally feral.

And as always, I'm turning to dogs to show you what structural ferality actually looks like when it's real.

In this episode:

• What situational ferality is — and why it's not enough
• Why the dog who has good days and hard days is showing you exactly where you are in this work
• The nervous system science behind why insight alone never changes the pattern
• Why the woman doing this work is fighting the conditioning of every woman who came before her — not just her own
• What epigenetic transmission means for the women doing this work
• How patriarchy and toxic capitalism depend on women staying situationally feral — and why structural ferality is the system's worst nightmare
• What the shift from situational to structural ferality does to a woman's sense of identity
• Why you cannot build structural ferality alone — and what you actually need

If this episode landed for you:

The Wild Room is my free private Telegram community for women who are done being the most attuned person in every room and the least attuned to themselves. Inside you'll find audio transmissions, the replay of the Not A Fucking Good Girl Anymore immersion and first access to everything about FERAL (including a new workshop on 24 June 2026)

Join me inside The Wild Room: https://t.me/+bnXMSaPs-ocxNGFl

If you're ready to go further:

FERAL is the 9-month container where this work goes all the way. Not more insight. Enough repetitions in real conditions — with real witnesses, in real relationships — that the nervous system finally updates its prediction.

Opening ceremony 11th July 2026.

https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/feral

This epsiode kicks of my podcast's rebranding and a mini series called Meeting Your Feral Self. This is perfect for dog moms who have spent so much time advocating and attuning for everyone else but themselves.

Over the next 4-6 weeks, I'm going to be dropping weekly episodes that will feel like an initiation into becoming so frickin' feral in your relationships.

For years, I’ve sat with women and their dogs in deeply intimate work - the kind where it’s never really just about the dog. I’ve watched women learn to honour their dog’s boundaries, then go home and abandon their own. Watched them advocate for their dog’s safety and consent, while saying yes to things that feel like neither. Watched them develop extraordinary attunement - and offer none of it inward.

I know that split. Being feral in one relationship, and carefully contained in the rest. And it comes with such a high cost that so many women have just normalised paying for. But what if you don't need to pay that cost anymore? What if your relationships could look different? What if you could be less of a good girl and more intentionally feral?

By the end of this series, you won't just understand what ferality is - you'll have a deep inside-out sense of what's needed for you to become feral as a woman who no longer chooses to be palatable or the most understanding person in the room.

ps I 've opened doors to my new 9-months container for dog women, FERAL - an inner circle of women who are finally ready to  advocate as fiercely for themselves as they do for their dogs. Who are done with the automatic yes, with the paragraph after the no and with showing up in their relationships and business from the fear of asking too much.

For $2250 or 12 monthly payments of $188, you get access to:

- Fortnightly group coaching

- Monthly hot seat coaching

- Private Telegram community for support

- Potent + rich library of private audio transmissions

- Personalised onboarding so that you know exactly where to start

Sign up before 20 June and get a BONUS 1:1 coaching call with me before the program officially begins on 11 July.

Find all the details here: https://www.luchiandmuttons.com/feral

We talk a lot about training, behavior, and “doing it right” with our dogs - but almost never about what happens after things go wrong.

In this episode, we explore relational repair: what it is, why it matters, and how it builds deep emotional safety between dog moms and their dogs. This conversation gently disrupts perfection-based dog culture and offers a more humane, nervous-system-aware approach to connection.

If you’ve ever felt guilt, frustration, or shame after a hard moment with your dog - this episode is for you.

In this episode, we cover:

- what relational repair actually means in dog-human relationships

- why repair matters more than getting it "right" all the time

- every day examples of repair + non-examples

- why repair can feel inaccessible

- how dogs experience rupture, safety and reconnection

- the link between repair, trust & emotional resilience in dogs

Who this episode is for:

- dog moms who feel pressure to "get it right" all the time

- dog moms of sensitive, reactive or complex dogs

- anyone curious about nervous system aware dog parenting

- humans learning to unlearn control based relationship models

Gentle Reminder:

If repair feels hard or unfamiliar, you’re not broken. Many of us were never taught how repair works - this episode is an invitation to learn together, with compassion.