Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist “Don’t complain about what was taken away; be thankful for what you were...
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Pet Loss – You Did the Best You Could
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist “If I hadn’t taken Scout on that hike in the heat, she wouldn’t have died.”...
How Long Is It Normal to Mourn the Loss of My Pet?
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist “Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”...
It’s OK to Take Time to Grieve the Loss of Your Pet
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist QUESTION: Why is grieving the loss of a beloved pet different from grieving...
The True Soulmate – My Pet
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist I’m fascinated by a study, reported not long ago in The New York Times, in...
Grieving Your Pet Before They Die
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist On Anticipatory Grief One of our greatest poets, Billy Collins, US poet...
Pet Loss – Heartbreak Needs Help
Article by adjunct faculty, Dalma Heyn, Pet-Loss Grief Specialist, Psychotherapist I know that the last thing in the world most of us need is another blogger...
Probiotics As Key Nutrients
Probiotics have been in many people's health vocabulary for many years now. And it's still not a cut and clear subject with information always changing, new...
Are Garlic and Onions Really Poisons for Dogs and Cats?
WARNING. This article discusses feeding practices that differ from those advised by the AVMA. That's because it uses the paradigm of a non-physical...
Happier and Healthier Cats
Anitra Frazier is one of our country’s pioneer cat professionals and teachers—she is truly a national treasure! At 85 years old, she’s spent nearly a...
Podcast: Empowering And Inspiring Pet Parents
Date: May 13, 2022 | By: Dr. Peter Dobias Description: Here is how Dr. Dobias introduced Dr. Feinman: In this podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with one...
Podcast: Making the Correct Holistic Choices for your Pet
Dr. Christina Chambreau was interviewed by Greg Tilford from Your Vital Pet on February 24, 2020. Listen to this inspiring interview below, or by clicking...
The Happiness Protocol Podcast
Watch video:Or listen to audio:Dr. Jeff Feinman, Holistic Actions! founder and holistic veterinarian, coined the term The Happiness Protocol for a...
One Health Medicine: Reconnecting People, Pets, and the Planet to Restore Vitality, Balance, Health, Healing, and Happiness
We are all connected. This truth is the basis for One Health Medicine — a paradigm of health, healing, and happiness that reconnects us to ourselves, other...
Breathing: A Powerful and Surprising Way to Increase Your Pet’s Health and Happiness
Ahhhhh. We all know that feeling: the feeling of taking a deep sigh of relief, or experiencing a deep state of contentment. But what’s easy to miss is how...
What Cat Food Brands Would You Recommend?
Answered by Dr. Jeff Feinman The answer is really no commercial brands, in that I, as a veterinarian that focuses on vitality and energy, I prefer fresh food...
How Often Do Dogs Need Rabies Shots?
Answered by Dr. Jean Hofve Well, the rabies vaccine is required by law pretty much everywhere. You can contact your local animal control and find out what the...
Can You Spay a Pregnant Cat?
Answered by Dr. Jean Hofve So your girl kitty accidentally got pregnant. Now what? Is it too late to spay her? No, in most cases, it isn't too late most cats...
What Ingredients Are Important to Incorporate into My Cat’s Diet?
Answered by Dr. Jean Hofve There are three ingredients that I recommend you incorporate into your cat's diet. The first and most important are omega 3 fatty...
Suffering from decision fatigue? HMDM to the rescue
Our everyday lives are loaded with decision making (making a tooth paste choice alone is not the same as it used to be a hundred years ago), so decision...
Quest For Healing: Holistic Pet Care Q&A Part 2
Quest for Healing, Episode #44: Holistic Pet Care Q&A and Why Context Matters with Dr. Jeff Feinman (Part 2 of 2). Aired: Wednesday, August 18, 2021...
Quest for Healing: A Truly Holistic Approach to Pet Health
Quest for Healing, Episode #43: A Truly Holistic Approach to Pet Health with Dr. Jeff Feinman (Part 1 of 2). Aired August 11, 2021. Welcome to this...
5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became A Doctor
An Interview With Luke Kervin. Published in Authority Magazine, Medium. August 19, 20201 The third biggest thing I wish I’d learned in vet school is...
The Return to Wholeness and Homeostasis: Escaping the Reductionistic Prison
Homeostasis, Balance and Equilibrium are used interchangeably throughout the article. Over the last century, science has been held captive to the legacy of...
How to Optimize Your Pet’s Quality of Life Using BEAM
Highlights: Understand what BEAM is How BEAM reflects both quality of life and cellular energy Using symptoms to improve and enhance your pet’s quality of...
Holistic vs Homeopathic
Maybe because they both start with an H, many people confuse holistic treatments with homeopathic treatments. Clients will tell a veterinarian that they have...
Case History: Natural Diet Restores A Very Sick Cat
It all began in 1988, when our beloved year-old tortoiseshell Persian, Dinah, developed what was diagnosed as a “granuloma” on her lip. Our then veterinarian...
Give Arnica A chance – Dispelling Homeopathy Myths
Would you like to learn a safe, effective and inexpensive way to help people and pets heal? You are in the right place. Arnica is an over the counter...
What Should I Feed My Pets? The Pet Food Dilemma
“Although we have come to accept commercial foods as being normal or natural ways to feed animals (and indeed ourselves), in fact they are not. They are...
How to Safely and Happily Travel With Your Pet: Five Steps for an Adventure of a Lifetime!
What’s better than a travel adventure? A travel adventure with your pet, of course! Bringing your pet along on your dream destination (or even a weekend...
Dreaming of Adopting a Dog? Push “Paws” Till You’ve Considered These Five Crucial Questions
Aw, doggies. They tug at your heartstrings. Sometimes all you have to do is see a puppy in the park or an adoption ad from your local animal shelter to make...
Putting the Individual Front and Center: Four Pillars of Practice for People and Pets Alike
Ever been good friends with a pair of identical twins? If so, you know that one of the most frustrating things for them as children is the assumption that...
The Happiness Protocol: Why Individuality and Happiness Play a Huge Part in Your Pet’s Health
At Holistic Actions!, we are committed to so much more than helping pets become symptom and dis-ease free. The absence of dis-ease is not the same as the...
Best 5 dried Dog Foods For 2021
Dog is a (wo)man’s best friend - that’s been an undisputed fact for many centuries and I am sure, if you’re reading this, you’ve experienced that yourself....
Laughter Is Medicine
You may have heard of laughter yoga - although it may sound funny, laughter actually has great benefits for our health: from stimulating internal organs by...
How to Optimize Every Aspect of Your Pet’s Environment to Promote Balance, Boost Immunity, and Defend Against Dis-ease
Your pet’s susceptibility to dis-ease, like your own, depends on the degree to which they can maintain their inner balance (what is also called inner terrain)...
Confused About Your Pet’s Symptoms, and Maybe Even Your Own? Gain Clarity With a Big Picture Perspective
Why our pets, or ourselves, for that matter, develop health problems can be a trickier question than it might appear. Say, for example, you take your puppy to...
How to Listen to and Learn From Your Pet’s Symptoms to Take Effective Holistic Action
Learning to view your pet’s symptoms as trustable, intelligible communications that can provide clues to underlying imbalances and guide holistic health...
Faced With Making a Medical Decision for Your Pet? Push “Paws” to Ensure a Fairy Tale Ending
Once upon a time, not so very long ago (in the last year, actually), there was a beautiful, golden-haired girl named Sam. Sam’s energy, enthusiasm, and love...
How to Use Clues From Your Animal Companions to Promote Optimal Health
Learning to use your pet’s symptoms* as valuable clues for understanding underlying imbalances and addressing them holistically is one of the most important...
A Way To Connect Modern Veterinary Medicine And Ancient Wisdom: An Introduction To Terrain Theory
Germ Theory: Not the Whole Story What human being has not been warned about germs, those infectious micro-organisms (pathogens) that are too small to be seen...
Fluffy or Flabby? How to Prevent or Manage Pet Obesity and Optimize Your Dog or Cat’s Nutrition
Meet Susie On a glorious spring afternoon with temperatures nearing 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, Susie was finally getting to enjoy her favorite...
Do Pets Get Covid-19?
Can My Pet Get the SARS Virus and Develop the Covid-19 Dis-ease? Nowadays, veterinarians are often asked whether pets can get Covid-19. The short answer is...
Fatal Viruses and One Health
The information on this blog is primarily about using HA! for animals. However the same scientific data that is used here for animals can be applied to...
One Way to Re-Connect Nature and Veterinary Medicine
" An increasing body of research is showing that pets, people and the planet are all interconnected. This interrelationship is called One Health and helps...
Internal Balance and covid?
Have you ever had an intuitive sense that your pet is sick, but your vet says that your pet is fine because the exam and tests are all normal. Regardless, you...
HMDM In Action – 2 Cases
The following cases describe how Holistic Medical Decision Method can be used in everyday life. case number 1 - Ear infection Let’s say your dog has an ear...
mTor
Significance of Signs, Symptoms, mTor, and Quality of Life By Jeff Feinman, VMD Used with permission of the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary...