If at any time in your life, you actually spent time as a child, there's a very good chance

that you have been hurt by words. And it's not just the meaning, but it's

the energy of the words. And today we're going to jump into look at what that means for our dogs.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett and welcome to Shape by Dog. Before we begin, it's been a while

since I've read a letter out loud and I want to share with

you a comment that was left on one of my Facebook lives that I've done. And that's actually

the topic of today's conversation. I did 14 Facebook lives in a row over consecutive

days where I focused on one word. Now, this is a comment

that came in from Naomi Nagasaki. My Japanese isn't great, so bear with me. Naomi writes,

inspiring as always, the dog training in my country seems 20 to 30 years behind. Even when my dog was

a small puppy, I gave him a lot of corrections. At the end of July of this year, I started

homeschool the dog and the world has changed for me and my dog forever. I'm grateful for Susan

and the team, but also grateful for my dog who showed me grace to

start over our life together.

How beautiful is that?

And that's the amazing forgiveness of dogs.

Like they're waiting for us.

And so back to the meaning and the energy of words.

Now, you may have heard people say before that words

have this vibrational energy. So, play this game with me if you can. Now, if you're driving,

don't close your eyes. Okay. So, I would like you to close your eyes and repeat out loud

each word I say and see how that feels in your body. Maybe it won't feel

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