People I Heal With
Jil Fineberg's Next Book.... Coming Soon!
Jill’s next work, People I Heal With, focuses on the healing that happens between animals and humans and contains photo stories of people healing animals and animals healing people. To receive a pubishment announcement, please join Jill's mailing list.
Some accounts of these occurrences come from the lives of various animal healers, animal communicators, people healers and the animals themselves; such as
- Linda Tellington-Jones who invented the Tellington Touch Method of therapeutic healing,
- Jonathan Rudinger - creator of a pet massage school,
- Gizmo - the bi-ped dog from Ohio, Kizzy - the reading dog who helps children with speech impediments read aloud with confidence,
- Eddie’s Wheels - a company from Massachusetts that creates harnesses and wheels for handicapped animals so that they can be mobile,
- Irene Lane - an animal communicator from Philadelphia who is a very gifted pet psychic,
- Thorncroft – a place designed for therapeutic horse-riding,
- Andy Howington - the owner of 77 reptiles,
- Hand-in-Paw – a therapy and service giving organization in Alabama where a deaf dog who has been taught to respond to sign language works with hearing-impaired children who are reluctant to sign,
- The Missouri Dog Walk Project – where Professor Rebecca Johnson pairs service dogs with people who are trying to lose weight and improve their health,
- The World’s First Elephant Hospital, Thailand - where Soraida Salwala befriends Asian elephants,
- Pine Street Foundation of California - where dogs are trained to smell cancer in a human,
- The Prison Pet Partnership Program in Washington - which began the first program of its kind where prisoners train assistance dogs for others,
- Green Sreet Rescue - where feral cats are captured, neutered and released again,
- The nine elephants during the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia who directly saved 42 people by grabbing them with their trunks and taking them to higher ground,
- Dr. Carol Noone - world renowned primatologist who is responsible for moving abused chimps involved in medical testing and the space program to a 200 acre sanctuary in Florida,