 Welcome Joan! Joan is an Animal Communicator and author of Communication with all Life, Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Hay House). She is the founder of Communication with all Life University. Through private sessions, workshops, teleseminars and speaking events, Joan facilitates a deepening of the human/animal connection. Joan was chosen by MSN as one of the “Top 25 People Who Do What They Love” and has been featured on Dateline, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Animal Planet to name a few. Her healing CD, Animal Alchemy Energy Work for Animals and Their Humans, will be out in 2012, along with her newest book, Energy Healing for Animals. Where are you located? I grew up outside the Seattle, Washington, USA, area in an place that was
once rural and is now quite suburban! I look at people’s homes now and
remember ripping through what is now their living room at about 35 mph bareback
on my horse - Honeyhorse! Tell me about your writing and your book releases....  My first book is Communication with all Life,
Revelations of an Animal Communicator, published by Hay House. I should
really back up and tell the whole story at this point. When I was seven years old I
wrote plays to perform with the neighbors, the proceeds were to go to buying a
horse. Thankfully that year I won a horse and the world was spared my bad
singing. I always kept a diary, then a journal. I wrote poems, short
stories, and plays in college (I was a theatre major). One of my plays was in my college's Literary Magazine Harbinger; all the other [plays] were produced. I wrote
performance pieces in New York City and Los Angeles. I won Critics Choice at the Edinburgh
Theatre Fringe Festival for a play that I co-wrote, co-performed and co-produced
called “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World, a Two Woman Show”, with Karen
Loftus. I then wrote screenplays and in 1996, when I had an about-face
turn of careers, I became an animal communicator. I started writing about my
experiences. I knew Hay House would publish my first Animal Communication
book and I wrote that on a post-it-note in 1998. They finally found me
about six years later and published my first book. My new book will be
out in 2012 called Energy Healing for Animals, Techniques to Enhance the
Health, Longevity and Wellness of the Animals We Love, published by Sounds
True. Where do you like to write? I love to write in my office which has a view right
into the pasture where my horses are. Across the pasture the ravens have
a big nest and are always up to something., and I watch other wildlife
float through. Do you write everyday? In a perfect world, yes. Sometimes that doesn’t look as
romantic as writing great philosophical pieces or poems about the
animals. . . . . sometimes writing is reminding a client to keep the hope
up in an e-mail or thanking someone for a profound experience. I like to
write in my journal if I haven’t carved out time to write or rewrite a current
piece. Thankfully when you do write everyday – it isn’t something you
have to stop and think about. How do you maintain ideas and thoughts? I keep a journal for starters. A lot of ideas
get flushed out in that. If I’m driving, I’ll write on a bank statement
if I have to something like “forgiveness piece, Michael Vick’s dogs….” And then
thankfully, I have an excellent memory for the imagery I created in the
daydream. I also have notes in computers for each months
newsletter. So I already have next months and the following months
newsletter etched out for my clients and readers. Where my memory fails
me sometimes is what [file name] I’ve saved my brilliant idea under in the
computer!!!!! So I have learned to keep a list of ideas. What/who is your niche market? While on the one hand my market is anyone with an
animal, I have a couple of niche markets. One is anyone with an animal –
I have something helpful to say about creating connection whether you believe
in Animal Communication or not. After 16 years of being an Animal Communicator,
I have 16 years worth of working with behavior and wellness, so I have a lot to
offer anyone with an animal. Anyone with an animal with a challenge is
definitely my niche market!! I have a healing background – so people
interested in alternative health. I also have had a lot of high level
competitors as clients –horses in the Olympics, dogs at Westminster and of
course I love helping the kid in 4-H that wants a better connection with their
barrel racing partner. I love to get the horse and rider or the dog and
handler truly connected on the same page and moving forward as one in
competition. And in general – my goal is always household or barnyard
harmony!! Do you have a favorite author(s)? Why? As an Actress and writer in the theater, I love
Chekhov, Gurney, Tennessee Williams, William Inge to name a few. And of
animal books – J. Allen Boone – Kinship with all Life (he was a screenwriter
and basically an animal communicator of the 1950’s – 1960’s. Machelle
Small Wright – Behaving as if the God in All Life Matters – I love this because
she had so much trauma in her life and really turned it around for a spiritual
relationship with animals. I love books like Seabiscuit, Laura
Hillenbrand did an amazing job of recalling the period in history and why the
world needed a horse like Seabiscuit. Healing books – my favorite is
still Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss – I was lucky enough to study with
her for a few years about 13 years ago. My favorite Spiritual book is
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Tich Nhat Hanh. Authors of novels range
from the Brontes to Salinger. What are your writing goals for future endeavors? I have 2 or 3 books in general I want to write, and
two documentaries I want to write and direct. I have some self-published healing CD/workbooks coming out immediately and hopefully a DVD!! I also
blog – not regularly enough – partly because I’m currently in a rewrite for the
new book. Do you have suggestions for newbie writers? Just keep writing, edit later. Get it down on
paper, you can always make it pretty later!! Try to write everyday – that
way it isn’t something that becomes overwhelming so you just don’t do it.
Find a quiet time in the day to connect with yourself and write. Also, if
you are a horse or animal person, have some outings each day – sometimes your
best material comes on a dog walk or grooming a horse!!  An excerpt from Communication with all Life, Revelations of
an Animal Communicator published by Hay House. From the Chapter: Setting the Tone Thoughts, Memories, and Deep-Seated Belief Systems "So many times horse trainers tell you 'This is too
much horse for you'. As long as your safety isn’t jeopardized, rather than look
for another horse, look for a different trainer. Dog trainers may say, 'Oh,
you’re never going to accomplish this'. Get a different trainer. Get a trainer
that supports your belief system: you have a right to love and to dream big. Cindy called me because her
horse just wasn’t cutting it. She had a barn full of great barrel racers and
she had convinced herself that this one horse just didn’t want to do it. He
liked barrel racing, he told me, but I got a sense he was truly a late bloomer.
Work was fun, but why did he have to do it all of the time? He was naturally talented, so
if she could just take her mind out of it and make it more fun, this would be a
breeze for him. She had a tough time getting her mind out of it as many of the
horses followed her mental track. Because she had a knack for finding
competitive horses that loved this sport, she had a lot at stake. Yet this one
horse was providing her with a sense of failure so strong that she couldn’t get
her belief out of the way that this horse could not do it. So she’d get out
there with him and he’d fulfill that negative prophecy. When we had our session, we
talked a lot about her belief system about him and that she had to get her mind
out of the way. So the next barrel race, she spent her time in the warmup ring
and even in the box saying out loud: 'La, la, la, la, la, la….' Like a little
kid, reminding her mind that she couldn’t hear it. They had their best time
ever!" Connect with Joan For Sessions, Workshops, upcoming events and Dolphin Trips: www.joanranquet.com Check out: Random Thoughts of an Animal
Communicator: www.joanranquet.wordpress.com The best Supplements/feed for all life: www.dynamitemarketing.com/joanranquet  |
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