Brigitte Baker

Why Did I Decide to Follow This Path?

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been energetically sensitive with a strong connection to all creatures. I remember telling my mother that I knew what the tiny jumping spider I found in my room was thinking, that the chipmunks in the window well were fascinated with the pancakes we were eating for breakfast and would like to have some, that our neighbor’s cat didn’t like fish and longed for her family to give her chicken, and on and on. I was also aware, painfully most of the time, how others were feeling even when I did not know them. No one – not doctors, teachers, or my mother – knew how to “correct” this part of me, so I was labeled “oversensitive”, “overly dramatic”, an “over-active imagination”, and even a pathological liar. At 5, this can be sort of laughed off and adults think it’s cute—at 13 it can be devastating. I learned to hide what I heard, what I thought, what I felt—often never being able to decipher whether I was absorbing another person’s feelings or if they were truly my own. I shut down that portion of my senses and tried to just get through each day without being targeted by bullies, labeled a freak, or talking about what I felt.

After several dramatic life changes I once again sought to “recreate” my life. In 2010, I found the intuitive art of Reiki. I pursued this healing energy work as it felt very natural and seemed oddly “easy” to me. After my first level attunement in Reiki, everything came flooding back – all the intuitive skills I had pushed away for close to 40 years bubbled up to the surface. Being able to understand and CONTROL this became a passion. Yet, I still couldn’t openly speak to a stranger about my talent. The memories of being bullied as a young girl would not allow me to speak my truth to anyone other than close friends. I found kinship through multiple rescues and met a number of amazing individuals in the veterinary and rescue fields where I could use my intuitive skills to help rescued and abused animals—which felt like a “homecoming”.

As of 2016, I shifted the focus of my career solely to Animal Communication. Being able to improve the human-animal bond as well as improve the lives of companion animals through intuitive communication has been my greatest joy. There will always be people who feel intuitive communication is merely a parlor trick and I do not seek to make believers of every person I encounter. My commitment is always to the animal first and foremost—conveying any information they wish for me to pass on. Being able to help an animal release emotional trauma, to help a human understand a rescued animal’s past to improve their current lives, or to bring a level of understanding and peace to an owner regarding their beloved animal’s wishes or requests in the event of difficult medical or life decisions has brought me extreme peace in finally being able to embrace not only my gift, but my true purpose.