Diary of a Cat Mom
Diary of a Cat Mom is a reflective cat podcast created and hosted by Dagmar Gatell about living in deeper awareness — with your cats, nature, and yourself.
Based on real experiences with over 50 cats cared for throughout her life, each episode shares quiet observations, emotional moments, and gentle insights from everyday life with cats. From daily routines and caregiving challenges to grief, gratitude, and the small, meaningful connections that often go unnoticed — this is not a how-to podcast, but a space for reflection shaped by lived experience.
Beyond life with cats, Dagmar also explores our connection to nature, personal awareness, and the ways our inner state influences the animals we care for. Because caring for cats is never just about them — it’s about how we show up, feel, and live alongside them.
Created for cat lovers who see their cats as family, this podcast offers companionship, perspective, and reassurance — especially during seasons of responsibility, change, and letting go.
Diary of a Cat Mom is a personal storytelling podcast and does not replace professional veterinary advice. Every cat is unique, and any health concerns should always be discussed with a trusted veterinarian.
You’re not alone on this journey.
We’re learning, loving, and growing together — one paw print at a time.
Diary of a Cat Mom
Ep. 20 - Life Is Change—for You and Your Cats Too 🤍🐾
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Life doesn’t just change for us—it changes for our cats, too.
In this episode of Diary of a Cat Mom, I share a personal reflection on how our emotions, stress, and energy directly affect our cats’ behavior. From anxiety and overwhelm to calm and balance, our inner world shapes theirs more than we realize.
If you’ve ever felt like everything spirals at once—your mood, your home, and your cat’s behavior—this episode will help you pause, reset, and reconnect.
What You’ll Learn in this Cat Podcast Episode
- How your emotional state affects your cat’s behavior
- Why anxious energy can create chaos at home
- A simple breathing technique to calm your nervous system
- How mindset shifts can reduce stress for both you and your cat
- Why “life is change” applies to your cats too
Timestamps & Chapters
00:00 – Life is changing—for you and your cats
00:18 – How your energy affects your cats
00:48 – When stress creates chaos at home
01:18 – Realization: your behavior impacts them
01:48 – Learning to accept change
02:15 – Staying calm and balanced
02:35 – Real-life example: cat behavior & environment
03:05 – Emotional reactions vs awareness
03:40 – Breathing technique to regulate yourself
04:05 – Creating calm for you and your cats
04:20 – Final reflection and takeaway
About the Diary of a Cat Mom
Diary of a Cat Mom is a quiet, personal cat podcast created by Dagmar Gatell, sharing real moments, emotions, and experiences from life with cats.
This space is meant for connection, comfort, and companionship. Everything shared comes from lived experience as a cat mom and is not intended as professional veterinary advice. Every cat is unique, and for health concerns, it’s always best to consult your trusted veterinarian.
Most of all, please remember:
You’re not alone on this journey. We’re learning, loving, and growing together — one paw print at a time.
Life is changed for me and for the cats too. I think we humans we expect that when something is changing in our life and we get anxious or nervous or fearful, that it's just something about us. But in reality, we bring this energy or vibration back home to our little ones, right? I'm sometimes surprised when I'm really anxious and whatever, already running late and feeling overwhelmed. And then the little ones, they're like rabunctious and out of control and don't listen at all or start fighting or hissing. And I feel like, oh my God, everything gets worse. And sometimes I don't realize that I'm the one who make it worse with my behavior. Because if I'm out of balance, the kitties can feel it, and then they're getting out of balance. I'm working a lot of my self-development and personal development, and I'm listening to Kabbalah, and it really helps me to stay more grounded and to accept that life is change. Because for my culture, I don't really really like change. I really like that everything is good and hopefully it stays good. I feel comfortable. So I'm I'm learning to challenge myself to go out of my comfort zone so that when change happens, it doesn't throw me out of the path I was planning to go. So the more I work on regulating my nervous system, the better it works out and saying from a Kabbalah perspective, what a pleasure. And welcoming change and trusting and having faith that the change happens to bring out something better in myself, that it makes me able to stay calm and balanced. And so more I practice it, and so more I stay calm and balanced, so better it goes with the kitties, and they will stay calm and balanced. And like for example, I have an older kitty, and I took that on from a friend of mine who just couldn't handle anymore that she was peeing in her bed. Like you just cleaned the bed and she got a new bed and she peed in it. Well, I started putting like pee pads in the bed so that I didn't have to wash the beds all the time. As soon as she had a new body, she started peeing it. And I realized whenever this happened, I really got internally upset. And I could sense that with my anxiousness, it started to make her more anxious. So as soon as she had a new bed, she peed in it. And as I started working on myself, and whenever I felt the anxiousness and whenever I saw the peed bed, that I stopped for a moment and then did the deep breathing exercises that you count like up to four and you you feel your tummy with the air like um tummy breathing. And then you count to six or eight, I think, to let the oxygen get out. And when you do that four times, it absolutely helps. And it helps me for sure to regulate my nervous system. And by then that she peed in the bed again within a short period of time, it's not a big thing anymore. And so more I did it, so less she started peeing again. And the other thing, what I'm doing now when life gets in my way, that I'm I'm really saying to myself, like from a Kabbalah perspective, what a pleasure. What can I learn from that? How can I become a better person? How can I become more patient or more accepting or more loving? Because it's not that she does it to upset me, she does it because something triggers her from an energy perspective, from a frequency perspective. And so more balanced the kidneys are. And so by increasing their life quality, I really increase my own life quality too. So I hope this episode helped you. If you're in a situation where life throws you out of your path and you feel very anxious or frustrated or sad or annoyed that you stop yourself and you regulate yourself and bring yourself back and balanced before you go down into the cubby hole, and this becomes suddenly this totally big thing, and then it becomes more difficult to make the best out of it. Let's create better life qualities for all kitties. Bye.