Welcome! I'm Cara Gubbins - Animal Intuitive, Pet Medium, Author, Speaker, Animal Lover, Wife, and Mom.
My mission is to bridge the communication gap between pets and people.
Contact me at 530.520.0436 or Cara@ASpiritualTail.com.
I look forward to meeting you and your animals!
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My Story:
As far back as I can remember, I've always loved animals. In fact, when I was three years old and living in a Chicago suburb, my nickname was “Seal Baby,” because I spent so much time swimming underwater whenever my family went to the pool or the beach.
When I was six, back before cable TV, Animal Planet, and 5,000 on-demand television channels, Sunday night was our family’s television night because that’s when the nature programs were on.The highlight of the night for me was “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” This is when I decided that I wanted to be a marine biologist when I grew up. My dream stayed with me through elementary school, middle school, high school and all the way through college. In fact, I went on to study captive dolphins for my master's thesis and wild dolphins for my PhD dissertation!
But after I completed my PhD, I felt a little lost. I thought to myself, "Now what?" I still loved animals but I wanted change. I wanted a new adventure. I had no idea what it was. Then one afternoon I found myself driving alone through the rolling hills of northern California. As I drove past a pasture, my eye was drawn to three horses spread out in the field, casually eating grass. My chest tightened; my throat constricted. Tears streamed down my face. Deep inside me was an ache I had never felt before. I wanted to talk to those horses. It felt like my soul needed to talk to them. Longing was pouring out of me. What could we say to each other? What could they tell me about their lives, their views of reality?
Hold on there, Cara! Why would I want to talk to horses?! I was a marine biologist! My mind whirled as I continued to drive, then a little light bulb went off inside my head. I was going to talk to whales. I was going to figure out what they were saying in their songs. I remembered. When I was six that was the reason I had wanted to become a marine biologist. That was my dream. Now that the cosmic gates into my childhood dreams and desires had opened, the memories flooded back and I realized that that was only part of it. Before Jacques Cousteau, there was another figure I had wanted to emulate: Dr. Doolittle. I wanted to walk with the animals, talk with the animals, just like he did.
I had found my dream, but I had to live with it unfulfilled for ten years. During those years, I became a mom to two incredibly fantastic kids, moved across the country, taught college biology and student success courses, and developed my personal intuition. But inside, I felt like a failure, like something was missing, like I had been given a passion without the ability to fulfill it. Two dogs, my own Australian shepherd Iko and a friend's chihuahua Bear, helped me to see that my ability to communicate with animals was part of my genetic make-up and an easily accessible ability I had always had, even when I couldn't access it during those long years of longing.
The key for me to becoming a professional intuitive and re-connecting with my natural intuitive ability wasn't so much training as untraining - healing all the irrational beliefs I had created inside my head about how I couldn't do it or that nobody would believe me if I told them what I was sensing.
And now, my childhood dream has come true. . I am now my own version of Dr. Doolittle. So, for the last few years I have been living my earliest childhood dream. I am walking with the animals and talking with the animals. The funny thing is that it feels normal and natural and very, well, regular to me. I still do all the normal things that I did before I learned that I can talk with animals. I still take my kids to school each morning like all the other parents in my neighborhood. But now when I go to work, instead of teaching biology to college students, I talk to dogs and cats and horses and goats and donkeys and pass their messages on to their people. All those things that I remembered that day driving by the horses, everything I wanted to be able to do when I grew up, I am doing. And every day it makes me smile because I realize that dreams really do come true.
"Cara is a compassionate, highly intuitive animal healer. Cara has a gift. Part of her reason for being in our world is to help us communicate with our beloved pets. I am tremendously grateful for her assistance this morning and highly recommend her. She’s the real deal." Joan Hoedel, Missoula, Montana
My mission is to bridge the communication gap between pets and people.
Contact me at 530.520.0436 or Cara@ASpiritualTail.com.
I look forward to meeting you and your animals!
{Sign up for my weekly tips on understanding your pet, developing your intuition, and living a more spiritual life. Subscribe here for free! Coming soon!}
{Connect with Your Pet - Animal Intuitive} {Connect with Your Pet Angel - Pet Medium} {Develop Your Abilities}
My Story:
As far back as I can remember, I've always loved animals. In fact, when I was three years old and living in a Chicago suburb, my nickname was “Seal Baby,” because I spent so much time swimming underwater whenever my family went to the pool or the beach.
When I was six, back before cable TV, Animal Planet, and 5,000 on-demand television channels, Sunday night was our family’s television night because that’s when the nature programs were on.The highlight of the night for me was “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” This is when I decided that I wanted to be a marine biologist when I grew up. My dream stayed with me through elementary school, middle school, high school and all the way through college. In fact, I went on to study captive dolphins for my master's thesis and wild dolphins for my PhD dissertation!
But after I completed my PhD, I felt a little lost. I thought to myself, "Now what?" I still loved animals but I wanted change. I wanted a new adventure. I had no idea what it was. Then one afternoon I found myself driving alone through the rolling hills of northern California. As I drove past a pasture, my eye was drawn to three horses spread out in the field, casually eating grass. My chest tightened; my throat constricted. Tears streamed down my face. Deep inside me was an ache I had never felt before. I wanted to talk to those horses. It felt like my soul needed to talk to them. Longing was pouring out of me. What could we say to each other? What could they tell me about their lives, their views of reality?
Hold on there, Cara! Why would I want to talk to horses?! I was a marine biologist! My mind whirled as I continued to drive, then a little light bulb went off inside my head. I was going to talk to whales. I was going to figure out what they were saying in their songs. I remembered. When I was six that was the reason I had wanted to become a marine biologist. That was my dream. Now that the cosmic gates into my childhood dreams and desires had opened, the memories flooded back and I realized that that was only part of it. Before Jacques Cousteau, there was another figure I had wanted to emulate: Dr. Doolittle. I wanted to walk with the animals, talk with the animals, just like he did.
I had found my dream, but I had to live with it unfulfilled for ten years. During those years, I became a mom to two incredibly fantastic kids, moved across the country, taught college biology and student success courses, and developed my personal intuition. But inside, I felt like a failure, like something was missing, like I had been given a passion without the ability to fulfill it. Two dogs, my own Australian shepherd Iko and a friend's chihuahua Bear, helped me to see that my ability to communicate with animals was part of my genetic make-up and an easily accessible ability I had always had, even when I couldn't access it during those long years of longing.
The key for me to becoming a professional intuitive and re-connecting with my natural intuitive ability wasn't so much training as untraining - healing all the irrational beliefs I had created inside my head about how I couldn't do it or that nobody would believe me if I told them what I was sensing.
And now, my childhood dream has come true. . I am now my own version of Dr. Doolittle. So, for the last few years I have been living my earliest childhood dream. I am walking with the animals and talking with the animals. The funny thing is that it feels normal and natural and very, well, regular to me. I still do all the normal things that I did before I learned that I can talk with animals. I still take my kids to school each morning like all the other parents in my neighborhood. But now when I go to work, instead of teaching biology to college students, I talk to dogs and cats and horses and goats and donkeys and pass their messages on to their people. All those things that I remembered that day driving by the horses, everything I wanted to be able to do when I grew up, I am doing. And every day it makes me smile because I realize that dreams really do come true.
"Cara is a compassionate, highly intuitive animal healer. Cara has a gift. Part of her reason for being in our world is to help us communicate with our beloved pets. I am tremendously grateful for her assistance this morning and highly recommend her. She’s the real deal." Joan Hoedel, Missoula, Montana
