To Hum is Human

Healing with Heart: A Vet’s Intuitive Approach to Animal Care

• Donnabelle Casis

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What if healing animals isn’t just science, but soul work?

In this heart-opening conversation, I sit down with Dr. Tim Budris—veterinarian, yogi, and deeply intuitive healer—to explore the unseen threads that connect us to our animal companions.

We talk about the power of empathy in veterinary care, how animals reflect our emotional states, and the vital role intuition plays in tending not just to symptoms, but to the full spectrum of well-being, both theirs and ours.

Whether you’re an animal lover, a healer, or someone learning to trust your inner knowing, this episode invites you into a world where medicine meets mindfulness, and love is part of the treatment plan.

Find me on Instagram @ToHumisHuman and www.sonorouslight.com

SPEAKER_00:

Hi, friends. Welcome back to another episode of To Hum is Human, the podcast where we explore the transformative power of tuning into our intuition to express our passionate purpose. I'm your host, Donabell Cassis, and I'm so excited you're joining me today. We're going to delve into healing with heart, a vet's intuitive approach to animal care because we all know our pets communicate with us in so many different ways. We just have to pay attention. So joining me today is Dr. Timothy Budris, who is a 1998 graduate of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practices small animal medicine in Connecticut. He has a BS from UConn at University of Connecticut and an MS from UC Davis, both in animal science. Now, Dr. Budris, who we'll call Tim today, lives with his husband, Michael, on an urban farm with geese, chickens, and an impossible fruit and vegetable growing situation. They produce eggs and preserved food and are passionate about plants, sea kayaking, quilting, painting, and yoga. Welcome, Tim.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_00:

Now, you had a powerful experience. when you were a teenager, which sort of sparked your ongoing quest to better understand this physical world. Can you tell us a little bit about what happened?

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. It was a long time ago. It seems like it was somebody else's storyline, actually. I think I was about 18 years old. I was in a codependent abusive relationship. And it's very stereotypical. And Mary Ellen Beatty's book, Codependent No More, guided me through that actually afterwards. But I had attempted suicide. I don't think I wanted to die. I think I just wanted to get the attention of somebody who wasn't giving me attention. I had a really interesting experience after taking a lot of medication that wasn't my own and drinking about a gallon of rum. I, to make a long story short, saw someone on this bathroom floor who was suffering, they needed help. They were vomiting. They were in a puddle of urine and they were dying. And my instinct was to kneel down and help this person. And I did. And I had this profound realization that I realized I was actually looking at myself Wow. That was, yeah. Yeah, incredible. Very interesting, beautiful, wonderful experience. And I remember even questioning in that moment, I'll never forget this. And at that moment, I remember thinking, I will never forget this because of this second. I couldn't believe that I was looking at myself, but then I realized I was actually looking at myself in 3D. And we don't see ourselves in 3D. We don't know what the shape of our head actually looks like. And I almost had this comedic realization. I was like, I had no idea I looked like that. And that's when it hit me that I will never forget this moment because of that. And the next thing I wanted to do was to really help this poor soul. And before I could process, I was bestowed with, I think, three beautiful facts. One was... And I call it divine intervention. I was just shown or telepathically told that the only person responsible for me being in this puddle was myself. That was a pivotal lesson and something that I needed to be given to me, actually, because I was failing learning that on my own. The other thing that I was shown was that we are not our physical bodies. I was also shown how a lifetime, even my own storyline or incarnation, would have an effect on others in amazing ways, kind of like the butterfly effect, like even if it's just a smile to a stranger or receiving a smile from a stranger, how that can change your perception of a day and how that then has a ripple effect. And I was shown that, and I was shown how my storyline was much longer than what I thought it was going to be. You know, here I thought I was going to die this night, potentially. And so... I was immediately back in my own body with this wisdom. And I sat up and I cleaned myself off. Next day was a different person. And since I've been chasing a better understanding of biology and physiology of our physical bodies and why we are encapsulated in human form, I went through a period of time, I think in my 30s, where I got very depressed, having had this wisdom bestowed upon me in accruing student loans and a mortgage and another relationship and all of the homeowner's paths. And the big question then that I don't think was answered for me when I had the out-of-body experience was why? Armed with the information that we are these spiritual beings, How is it that we have to endure the mundane existence of having a mortgage and student loans? And it got depressing. And since then, the incarnation now comes to life on figuring all of that out and figuring out still the physical body.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that out-of-body experience sounded astonishing. Have you ever had any experiences like that prior? So,

SPEAKER_01:

no. No. I had not. I use a term, and I never mean to sound offensive when I use it, and learning the vocabulary of alchemy and the dialogue of alchemy constantly, which is changing, but I called it ignorance is bliss. I was just pushing through life, arrogant, ignorant, not questioning things, and then had that roadblock of you are not proceeding forward without a greater understanding of why you're here and what a blessing that was. No judgment. You see people who we interact with who don't have those profound aha moments. And now it does help me to not judge anybody because even as this path unfolds, every day you can learn something new if you're open to it. But sometimes we are to play the roles that we play without that knowledge as well. I didn't have any other experiences up until that point. Since then, meditation is pretty profound.

SPEAKER_00:

We'll definitely talk about that in a little bit. Also, the age you were at, you're in your teens, your late teens. And of course, we're all very much about being superhuman in some ways. We're invincible. We can do whatever we want until we can't. And what a journey that was for you to come to terms with that experience. path that you are currently on, I'm fascinated about when you started tapping into wanting to work with animals.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, since I can remember growing up on a farm, especially, I always had relationship with animals that was much better and much more connected than it was with humans and I remember asking psychic once something about my gardening angels and he had referred to my maternal grandmother who I never met and he knew her name and she was a Lithuanian her name was Tekla and And I had never heard her name before. And it wasn't until I called my mom after the session and said, what was my grandmother's name? And she said, it was Tekla. And the psychic medium said something to me that my mother reiterated verbatim when describing this woman. And he had described her as somebody who They knew where to find you. Yeah, yeah. Remember sneaking out of my bed to sleep in the barn with our goats and our chickens and they would sleep all around me and keep me warm. And I definitely was connected to them and they were to me.

SPEAKER_00:

So it's fascinating because I've heard many people say that, you know, being with their animal friends is just a different thing. relationship. A lot of ways, there isn't a lot of pressures or expectations that we humans sort of put on each other. And I believe that animals and pets are really here to teach us about what unconditional love is.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

So early on, you recognized this and really felt it with them and they gravitated towards you. How did you decide to pursue veterinary medicine? Because that's a very direct path to just working with them.

SPEAKER_01:

It's an interesting story. I always thought that I would do something related to animal care and better understanding their biology and physiology and also their reason for being incarnated as energy here as well. That parallel path and the differences and the similarities are fascinating especially because of what you just said because they are capable of unconditional love and I don't I don't know I haven't met a human who is yet but I'm still looking and I'm still trying to be one myself I was a nurse's aide for 20 years during high school, college, and then veterinary school as well. And that certainly provided me with a grand perspective of people's perspective. There's two types of people in a nursing home. I learned people who love it and people who do not.

SPEAKER_00:

And

SPEAKER_01:

the difference between the two still is a grand perspective for me on gratitude. Being grateful in the moment is so very important. And animals help with that. And so to answer your question directly, I did not know that I would go to veterinary school. I didn't know if I was capable of getting in. It's a huge process, and it was back then too. So I do feel like the ball that fell through the pegboard and just hit the right pegs at the right time I wasn't very proactive until I needed to be. And I realized if I'm going to make this happen, if I'm not going to be a nurse's aide or even a veterinary technician for the rest of my life, I need to do something. So I think it wasn't until I actually got my animal science degree at the University of Connecticut that I realized if I'm going to go to vet school, I need to act like it. And that's when I started to get my storyline together for that and embarked on that.

SPEAKER_00:

I always feel that there are no coincidences. Your soul probably knew what you were supposed to do before you even knew what was happening. But what's interesting is because this podcast really talks about intuition and how we perceive things beyond our typical senses. And so as a veterinarian using evidence-based practices and working with animals, how do you develop balance between the two?

SPEAKER_01:

Great question, because it was so confusing for so many years. I hadn't even understood or I don't even think heard the term empath or empathic until I was a young adult. Even then, I didn't understand it. I didn't understand my own intuition. I certainly did a great job of denying it for a very long time. I went to California when I was in my early 20s to establish residency to eventually hopefully apply to veterinary school. California compared to conservative New England was a radical shift and an enlightening experience surrounded back in the day by tons of self-help avenues. I just read stacks and stacks of books. I couldn't devour them fast enough while I was studying biology and physiology. It helped create more of an awareness of this concept of intuition. But even still, it wasn't even until I was probably in my early 30s that I realized that many of the struggles that I was experiencing as a human was because of my intuition and not understanding it and not knowing how to not take things personal and how not to try to manipulate and control the outcome of someone else's storyline, even with the best of intentions. As a matter of fact, there was a very pivotal moment. I was in my... I did a yoga teacher training in Point Reyes, California in 2020, which was probably as profound as that out-of-body experience that I had when I was a kid. There was a moment in a meditation, and right before this meditation, I was asked the question, what is it that you want people to think in general? After meditating for quite a bit, after doing a lot of yoga, I realized I want people to feel what it is that they're feeling. And it was this huge release. I was 50 years old, I think, or 52 years old when that realization came that as somebody who is empathic and somebody who has intuition, I don't need to use that to change anybody else or their storylines. What I want is for them to have their experiences. We're all just walking each other home. I'm here to observe. And now this frees me and it frees them so that I can focus on being the best person that I can be and then maybe inadvertently have an effect on the world and them. So that's it. That was that pivotal moment for me of realizing, wow, I am empathic. I understand intuition. And now I understand that it's not to be abused or manipulated or to be used for anything other than that. getting through the day myself.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. Whatever it takes. Well, Dr. Tim, what, how would you define intuition? I

SPEAKER_01:

was trying to prepare for this beforehand and I knew you were going to ask that question and it's very ethereal. Intuition to me has, and I'm sure that this explanation is going to change day to day as time unfolds, is becoming no longer in denial about what it is that I truly know and opening up and welcoming the messages that the third eye has to say you know yesterday i was working in my driveway and i had this profound smell i smelt my sister who passed away and um a few years ago and i was doing something i was swearing and throwing tools and i felt her laughter you know 10 years ago 15 20 years ago i would have blown that off and instead now i i calm down, breathe, lean into the situation. And it's almost like she's there. And I think that the sensations associated with that experience need to be explored more within the individual. I can only talk for myself, but that's what I do now. So I find myself doing that daily. Even when you open up a cookbook, I did this yesterday, opened up a cookbook. I wasn't sure what I was looking for. And I remember to have faith, take a breath, It opened the book, and there it was, what we made for dinner. And I love that. It's a form of intuition.

SPEAKER_00:

And just really being open. To me, it sounds like intuition is being open in your way to perceiving things that are sort of out there already and feeling into them and just observing and noticing and not necessarily judging, per se.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. And judging yourself, judging other people, judging what's put in front of you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So, well, can you share a time when your intuition helped make an important decision about an animal's care?

SPEAKER_01:

It's hard to give you a specific because that actually happens on a moment-to-moment daily basis when I am working. But disclaimer, even as... Good as I may have gotten with leaning into intuition, I will never not rely on conventional diagnostics to guide or provide a diagnosis. I do love this concept of intuition in the workplace, especially within medicine. But I'm not going to just fall back on that because I do want to avoid liability and I do want to provide the best care. I do believe in integrative medicine, which is a combination of both. Using conventional medicine and using some holistic medicine and intuition. It's fascinating to me that the acupuncture meridians have been proven in science. It's fascinating to me that Each organ system has an electromagnetic field that can be measured. And fine, if you want to call it a heart chakra or you want to call it an EKG, call it whatever you want it. It's an electromagnetic system that's measurable now. And so is the brain. And so is the throat. So is the solar plexus. And the list goes on. So having said that, I will tell you that the most stereotypical appointment is... The big question is, do I actually have an urgent concern that's valid? In other words, people don't really know if their pet is sick, but the pet is just acting off or different. And it's a Friday afternoon and their office is closed on the weekend and the people are scared that they're going to have an urgent or emergency on the weekend and they'll have no access to their vet. So on those Friday afternoons, which are very stereotypical, you get this pet put in front of you. And I have found that really to know whether you have an urgent concern or not is to ask the pet, you know, look at them, talk to them, touch them, smell them, ask them. And you get, you get a vibe and you, you get messages, but still I will not solely rely on that. You know, you have to do the physical exam, gather some evidence and, and maybe run some diagnostics. There's, The comedic value of this is off the chart, and that could be a whole other podcast because I had animals say some things to me that were profoundly funny. This one cat I took out of a carrier, and I asked him subconsciously, you know, what's wrong? And he said, it's not me. It's her. She likes coming to your office. Telepathically, I tried to communicate back and say, we can't roll with that here. You're here. This is your appointment. And he's like, no. And he told me this message over and over again, actually, and come to find out, not divulging too much, but... It was the owner who had parasites. Not the cat. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. She showed me. She said, oh, and these are the fleas. She had been gathering them in scotch tape. And I looked and I said, I think those are head lice.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, dear. My

SPEAKER_01:

goodness. And so it was adorable. I had to thank the cat afterwards. I was like, you were right.

SPEAKER_00:

Mm-hmm. Well... Well, speaking of that, I'm a fellow cat owner myself, so you even had the mannerisms down when you were describing your conversation. But have there been any situations when an animal's behavior or symptoms are more than just physical? In your own sensing, know that maybe there's more of an emotional or psychological distress happening.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, actually, it's one of the reasons why I think some people... My family members in particular will say that I don't like dogs. And that is an incorrect statement. I have a hard time with dogs because they are so much more sensitive and they are so much more empathic themselves. And they don't understand that this is generalization, which is, you know, you can take it an isolated statement, please, because there's exceptions to everything. For the most part, a lot of dogs are so sensitive and so empathic themselves. In fact, the stereotypical situation, just to give you a perfect example to summarize this, is a lot of dogs come in on the day that they're going to be euthanized and they will say things to you like, I don't understand. I don't feel good. What's happening? For an empathic person, you have to get incredibly good at separating the connection to those messages because you have to be the person keeping it together and you have to keep the ball rolling and you want to make this the best transition possible if this is going to be a transition. And you want to be strong for everybody else around you.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, yes.

SPEAKER_01:

That can be very, very difficult. And there's a very big conversation taking place in veterinary medicine about this as well. A lot of veterinarians are suffering because of this. Anyway, it's very interesting. Many times when a cat comes in in a very similar situation, their attitude is, that's you, I'm fine. They're analyzing the typical difference between a cat and a dog. A lot of cats are much more stoic and aloof. And even humorous, too, to some extent. And again, generalizations. But on a daily basis, that's something that we have to navigate at work.

SPEAKER_00:

I was just going to ask you if there were certain breeds or species that require you to rely more on instinct than others.

SPEAKER_01:

I think so. Genetics is so incredibly interesting, not just what we've inherited on our DNA, but also what we've inherited from our past life experiences. And also, if you are empathic, what you're picking up and carrying just from your connections to the other beings around you. You know, deciphering between all of those is fascinating, and I still am fascinated. Trying to learn and understand how animals can relate to that. They have been so... Especially domestic dogs have been so incredibly... genetically inbred very recently very quickly in the last 500 years in fact you can even look at a picture of a french bulldog today versus just a hundred years ago or even a boxer and how radically different they looked so you wonder what has that done to them from a psychological standpoint in their incarnation so not only does it vary from breed to breed, but it definitely varies from individual to individual. And certainly, you know, the most obvious is the dog that's saved from a kill shelter in the South that's brought up on a truck for four days and then unloaded at an adoption event and gets its health certificate. And you hear the stories that this poor creature endured to be saved to get here. And then you look at them. And they have the stories to tell, but what else are they carrying with them on their DNA?

SPEAKER_00:

And

SPEAKER_01:

so there's that too. I love, I saw a dog the other day. It was kind of a stereotypical example of a German short hair pointer who came in to the rescue group that I work with and he had a horrific story to tell. And it's, and actually it was a heroic story of survival. His litter mates weren't as lucky as he was and he didn't care because He came in like a cat. He came in like, hello, hello, hello. I'm so happy. You're so happy. You're going to be happy because I'm happy. And you're thinking that is clearly genetics with him. So it varies from individual to individual and from breed to breed.

SPEAKER_00:

When you say small animals, what kind of animals do you see in your office?

SPEAKER_01:

So it's pretty accepted that when a practitioner of veterinarian says small animal medicine, that's including cats and dogs. And then there are some of us who do see exotics and there's different terminology for that as well too. Some people say pocket pets or some people are more specific depending on the species. But I personally do cats and dogs. I used to do farm animals and I used to do some exotics and just decided to focus that there was enough for me to focus on with just those two species.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and I imagine the range and the breadth of information just with those two species. I'm wondering how dealing with the humans of the pets, do you in some way instinctively know, say, how to deliver difficult news, difficult

SPEAKER_01:

information? Having worked emergency medicine helped become, I call a sharpshooter, or being able to expedite urgent situations with delicacy. It isn't ever easy unfolding learning process i don't always get it right you you have to summarize what's going on very quickly with an animal but you also have to be able to deliver facts which are neutral but a lot of people don't know that facts are neutral and it's really difficult to give somebody you know very direct information a stereotypical emergency is This healthy Labrador who had no medical issues at all, all of a sudden is just lethargic and they come in for a check and he's actually ruptured his spleen and he's dying. And that's a common emergency medicine presentation. And there's a very simple test that you can do in the office with the owners to show them that there's blood in the abdomen. These people are usually in shock and are not receptive to the fact that that this is an emergency situation. And a lot of people will say something along the lines of, well, this wasn't a problem yesterday. My response to that right now, today, has evolved to be, it is a problem today, now. I try to do that with care and the tone of my voice. Some people get very offended by hearing that, and I don't blame them, I don't judge them. In fact, the interactions that we have as veterinarians are very rapid fire. which can be overwhelming and exhausting. In order to survive that, you have to learn not to take things personally, and you also have to not judge. And what a beautiful, beautiful playground that is for life in general. Because now when I'm at a gas station and somebody swears at me because they think I pulled them too close to them, I say namaste, brother. I love you.

SPEAKER_00:

Because I'm

SPEAKER_01:

not at work and it's an opportunity to be kind. You know, there's always an opportunity to be kind. And so being a veterinarian for me personally, I'm fortunate to have found this path within the profession of fine-tuning patients. my interpersonal skills with all humans in all possible scenarios. And I'm going to jinx myself because I have to go to work tomorrow and I'll find myself in a situation that I've never been in before in 30 years. But now when those happen, and I hope this for all of us too, and I did have a really... potentially terrible interaction with somebody last week. But it was the first time that something like that happened with someone who was clearly unreasonable, that I had no emotional response. I usually do, you know, retain control now because I'm getting better at understanding empathy and intuition. But this time it was a beautiful opportunity for me to say the right things. And I did. But I actually felt no emotions surging. And when I left the room, I thought, wow, I just graduated to a new level. And it took 50 years to get there.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I know you got your yoga certification in 2020. Yes. Is there something that you wished people knew about intuition or ways to strengthen their connection to it? Obviously, through your work in veterinary medicine, but also your interest in yoga and shamanism. Can you speak about that a little

SPEAKER_01:

bit? Yeah, absolutely. It was almost disappointing to get to that point in life in the 30s and 40s and think that there are no more self-help books available. And then when you reread some old good ones, you know, like Eckhart Tolle isn't always a go-to for me. And every time I read his books, it's like reading a different book each time. And I think it has something to do with the stages of our lives that we're in. What I was given with this brief history and brief knowledge of yoga that I've been exposed to is this profound amount of material that is thousands of years old that was written in for today and i actually i had an opportunity to ask my gurus who taught me most of what i know about yoga this question i forgot to ask them the last time i saw them a month ago and it's how do i talk about yoga without sounding like i'm trying to sell a cult because i just want everyone to experience that the yoga text i had heard of them but i was intimidated by them And then when you actually pick them up and you read them, they're like pamphlets that you could read in just a few short hours. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita, which is a world-renowned book that's been around for thousands of years, literally explains being incarnated in human form and moving through our daily interactions. What a gift that is to have been given this guidebook a long time ago. And it still pertains to exactly today. And then through that, I personally and with my yoga friends that I did the teacher training with, they turned me on to people like Ron Das, who I knew of growing up in the 60s and 70s and just thought, oh, he's a hippie. That's all I knew. And little did I know, you know, that this man was responsible for so much of teaching, understanding and learning. teaching how to navigate the undulations of breath physically, but also the undulations of being in human form. One of my teachers says regularly, Good days will be followed by bad days, and bad days will be followed by good days, just like the waves in the ocean. And it just makes sense because now when something does happen, and if something will happen, every single day something negative happens. You get a flat tire, you get fired, you get laid off, whatever. You get a bad diagnosis. When you take that breath and get space in between, you'll remember that this is just an undulation. This is just the down wave. There will be an up wave. Everything happens for a reason. And there's reason in everything that happens. To answer your question, that's what I wish I could give to everyone. And I realize that I can't, but I can teach yoga. And in that environment, whether it be just yoga philosophy or the physical asanas, therein lies an opportunity for people to be quiet, people to stretch, people to understand their physical body. And that they breathe, literally taking conscious breaths for the first time in weeks or days. And then therein lies the opportunity for them to be receptive to very simple concepts that explain being incarnated.

SPEAKER_00:

I could even tell when you were speaking about stressful situations in your office or dealing with particular people that you come to this place of being very centered and calm because you can see the other person in their struggle and perhaps receiving the news or the physical pain that their pet is experiencing and having this later knowing that all of these parts of experience are for a reason and for our learning and for our growth. In general, anyone who goes into healing and medicine are empaths. There's definitely a part of them that are empaths. And what would you say to future veterinarians about working with this intuition, this sort of inner wisdom?

SPEAKER_01:

I think it's inclusion. I think that there's some discernment required in understanding that We have to include ourselves in the equation of taking care of animals and other people. It gets confusing, obviously, as all life does. One of the reasons why I believe is because you quickly become an observer of a fact that I think some, I don't know of all, but I think that some veterinarians and even human doctors might want to be in denial about a simple fact. And that's that you will see people keep their pets healthy. They have terminal conditions and they don't get sick and they don't die. Or the opposite is true, that the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction can be used in the opposite way too. We see a lot of animals are sick. because the owners are hypochondriacs or because the owners have a lot of stress in the home. And so I've learned, and it was a very simple, very specific disease in particular, I would see cystitis in a dog on a regular basis, or even a cat for that matter, that would not respond to conventional therapy. And I finally broke down and asked the question, probably about 10 years ago, what's going on in the home? And wow, the information that you get You know, my husband cheated on me. My wife died. My daughter has cancer. I mean, the things that you hear in these veterinary rooms are profound. And then there's this profound sense of alleviation. And now today, you know, having navigated that experience and trying to fine tune it a little bit more, now I'm to the point where I respond with, thank you for sharing that with somebody who's basically a perfect stranger. I promise you that having done so, is going to alleviate the situation. We've just popped the balloon. We just alleviated it. I know that this isn't necessarily veterinary medicine, but it is integrative medicine to talk about the environment as being a contributing factor to health. And I think that the inflammation in your dog's bladder is happening because of the stress in the house. And if you can just learn to de-stress, I think your dog's bladder is going to be less inflamed. And I tell you, man, it works. I see it all the time. They don't just need anti-inflammatory drugs. They don't just need a culture and sensitivity. They don't just need antibiotics. You know what they needed? They needed to take a breath. Yeah. I had a particular who came into a room once who was very upset and very nervous and angry, and she wouldn't let go of her little dog, and she was squeezing the dog. And I was trying to help her to get her to just put the dog down, And she finally did, but she was angry about that and she wouldn't breathe. She didn't have the ability to even tell me exactly what her concern was. And I finally had to focus on just getting this woman to take a breath and she refused. She said, I will not. That has nothing to do with this. This is not why I'm here. And I said, fine. If you don't do it, I will. And I took a big, deep breath. And what was so beautiful was her dog immediately connected to me. And he, same thing. He took a big, deep breath and this connected to mine. And the woman saw it and she then took a breath and she just broke down and started crying.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my goodness. He

SPEAKER_01:

hugged actually. And wow. Yeah, it was really profound. And it was, it was just the simplest. I'm getting chills over that. Oh yeah, just taking a breath. And the dog was right there. He was just like, yes, we need to take a breath. And I think my understanding is, is that they needed to learn how to breathe in their home.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of people really underestimate or maybe don't even acknowledge that their environment very much affects their way of being and their outlook, their health, their life, and how you carry that energy forward. and take it with you into the world also affects things around that. Such a powerful demonstration on how you connected with this dog simply just by grounding yourself and allowing space for a moment.

SPEAKER_01:

So to answer your question, I think that's what I would tell people getting into it now is that we have to factor into the equation creating that space. So thank you for that.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, this is really why I started this podcast, because I feel like there's so much out there that could be really helpful for people in just the most simplest ways. And if it requires just sitting back for a moment and taking a breath and just being fully aware of inhaling the air and exhaling the air through your breath, that you still the moment and you become present in what's And what an amazing example of that.

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that are measurable, that are binding receptors. We cannot stop those surges of these proteins and other chemicals surging through our bodies, but we do not have to be a slave to them. We can become observers of them. And that's the biology of belief. Bruce Lipton, I believe, wrote that book and still speaks eloquently about that today. And that is very helpful to understand that your feelings are your feelings, they are valid. And if we're not careful, And if we don't learn how to grow them and caress them and nurture them and understand them and respect them, they will take control over us. And therein lies where I see disease develop. You know, when people are upset about something that's happening in their environment or in their storyline and they can't let go and they stop breathing. disease manifests it causes inflammation inflammation is the common denominator of all disease and we don't need inflammation in these physical bodies this is going to happen through our pets who are so intuitive they are the barometers of us what you feel they feel so we have to be very careful so i say that many times i say to people who feel like they're in a dire straits situation with their pet is if you truly want to help your pet that you start with yourself Got to help yourself. You have to be coming from a place of love and gratitude. Then watch what happens to them. Watch their inflammation dissipate when you do that.

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Such beautiful knowledge to spread around. I really am a true believer in that as well. So, Dr. Tim Budris, what's next for you? Like, is there anything exciting on the horizon that you're particularly curious about? Yes.

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I have two things I'm very, very excited about. My basement is filled with seedlings.

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It is that time of year. It is

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that time of year. We've been chomping at the bit to get the garden in full throttle. And we have a vegetable garden that is impossible that produce most of our own food. And so we're very excited about that. And then I do have An additional yoga teacher training coming up with Point Reyes Yoga, I am going to take a training in yin yoga, which I'm very, very excited about. That is my go-to recharge place. That is the place that has provided me with direction and understanding, and I'm very grateful to be surrounded by the people who are there and the people who go there as well.

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Oh, my gosh. When you open up your yoga studio, I need to know and we'll have you back on so you can talk about it more. Would you like to share where your office is if people would like to come in and see you?

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Sure. So I'm an independent contractor, which is a very popular thing for many professionals nowadays. I actually work for several hospitals and several organizations. I kind of rotate on a regular basis, but I have my home-based hospitals. And currently my home base is VCA Hospitals in Danbury, Connecticut and Plainville, Connecticut and Bristol, Connecticut. I also work at a hospital in Seymour. I work for Dog Star Rescue in Connecticut which is an amazing organization who saves about 100 dogs from kill shelters every month, if not more. And they find them beautiful homes. Shout out to them, too. They could use volunteers and any kind of donations. In fact, if somebody would like to see me as a yoga teacher, we are putting together a fundraiser for them where I will be teaching a large yoga class and doing it via Zoom. So anybody from around the country can join. And it's just going to be a wonderful thing. And there might be some puppies involved. Oh

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my goodness. Puppy yoga. It's the next best thing to get goat yoga.

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Yeah.

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Well, I'll definitely post the link once that's available so you could definitely take advantage of that. We've covered a lot today and I am so inspired by how you shared your story about how you tap into your intuition and working with animals and people and plants of all things. I really just appreciate your time today and joining us. I just love what you're doing and spreading in the world and we could definitely use more of that. Thank you Dr. Tim Budris for joining me today. And I'm hoping everyone who's tuned in is also inspired. Remember intuition is something we all have access to. It's just a matter of creating space and learning to trust it. Thanks so much for tuning in today. I'm so glad you spent this time with me. If something in this episode resonated, feel free to share it or pass it along to someone who might need that little spark. Until next time, keep humming.