Kinesiology session with a cat
The Day a Cat Gave His Guardian Her Life Back
Several years ago, a woman contacted me with an unusual question.
“Do you work with animals?”
“Yes,” I replied, “but probably not in the way you’re imagining.”
I explained that when I work with a domestic animal, I usually work through their guardian. In other words, the session is carried out on the person rather than directly on the animal.
She looked surprised but agreed.
Over the years, I have often observed that animals are deeply empathetic.
Sometimes they seem to carry what the people they love are unable to express or even acknowledge themselves.
She began telling me about her six-year-old cat.
“He seems to be in pain whenever he jumps. He hardly goes outside anymore, and when he does, it’s only for a few minutes. He has always loved being outdoors, but now he just looks… sad. Almost as if he has lost his joy for life.”
The session began.
As we worked, emotions started to surface and gradually led us back several months in her life.
I noticed something changing in her expression.
I had the feeling she was beginning to connect some dots.
I said nothing.
Then something unexpected happened.
Her cat jumped onto the treatment table and gently settled on her abdomen.
She looked down at him.
I saw the colour rise in her face.
Then she began to cry.
Between her tears, she told me what had happened.
A few months earlier, after separating from her partner, she had discovered she was pregnant.
Because of serious medical reasons, she had needed to terminate the pregnancy.
Since then, she had withdrawn from life.
She rarely went out.
She hardly saw anyone.
She had been living with a constant pain in her abdomen.
The kind of pain that remains when grief has never truly been welcomed.
As she spoke, everything suddenly made sense to her.
She felt that somehow, her cat had been expressing in his own body what she had never allowed herself to fully feel.
She cried for a long time.
I simply stayed with her.
Then, very gently, her cat left her abdomen and climbed onto her chest.
He looked straight into her eyes.
And he began to purr.
There are moments during a session when nothing needs to be said.
This was one of them.
When the session ended, the cat jumped down from the table.
Easily.
Without any hesitation.
She looked at him in disbelief, then burst out laughing through her tears.
He walked to the garden door, turned around and looked at her.
It almost felt as though he was saying,
“So… are you coming?”
At the end of every session, I always test whether there is anything the person can do to help anchor the work.
Her “homework” was beautifully simple:
To accept her cat’s invitations.
To go outside.
To reconnect with life, little by little.
I saw her again a few months later.
This time, the work was about grieving both the relationship she had lost and the baby who had never been born.
About a year later, I met her by chance.
She smiled as she told me she had met someone new.
They were living together.
And…
She was expecting a baby.
I don’t claim to have all the answers.
I simply know that life often finds extraordinary ways to guide us back towards ourselves.
Sometimes those guides have four paws.
Sometimes they purr.
And sometimes they gently carry what we cannot carry ourselves… until we are finally ready to do so.
Life is deeply loving.
It uses many different paths to begin flowing through us once again.
Does your pet seem to be suffering, even though there are no signs of illness?
Over the years, I have often observed that animals can reflect what the people they love are going through.
If you feel there may be a deeper emotional connection, I would be honoured to accompany you in exploring it. Sometimes, helping your animal begins with helping yourself.
I offer in-person sessions in West Cork, Ireland, and online sessions worldwide.
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Muriel Laradi
Intuitive Kinesiologist • Healer • Spiritual Coach