Johanna Bloom: Listening beyond words: The magic of animal communication // #38

What if your pet has been trying to speak to you all along?

In this heart-expanding episode, you'll meet Johanna Bloom, a wonderful and incredibly gifted animal communicator whose work invites us to cross the veil and listen with more than just our ears. From training wild horses to communing with hedgehogs, orcas, and toads, Johanna’s journey is a portal into the unseen bonds between humans and animals. :)

Join us as we explore:

• How Johanna learned she had a gift for communicating with animals.
• How animals express trauma, mistrust, and even soul contracts.
• Why pets choose their names ... and how they set boundaries.
• Animal communication in relation to human emotions and behaviors.
• Dealing with pet euthanasia and understanding pets’ thoughts on death.
• Animals’ perspective on reincarnation and soul contracts.
• The importance of meditation and grounding practices in animal communication.
• Her advice for those who want to communicate with their own pets.
• Hear wisdom from specific sessions with different animals including a hedgehog, orca, toad, and more.
• Spiritual awakenings and the transformative power of pain.
• How animals communicate across species—and serve as guides through our own awakenings.

You’ll also hear stories that blur the line between this world and the next while discovering simple, powerful ways to begin your own journey of animal communication.

Whether you're grieving a beloved companion or simply curious about the voices of nature, this episode will leave you more grounded, more open, and more connected!!

Note: Johanna mentions a book I'm a co-author in which is called Soul Rising: Guidance for Navigating Your Spiritual Awakening

About Johanna Bloom:
Johanna is an animal communicator and intuitive who helps humans hear the soul-level messages of their animals, both living and passed. A former horse trainer known for working with the “difficult” ones, she now bridges the unseen bond between species, offering clarity, healing, and connection across all realms. For Johanna, animal communication is a sacred remembering, and every session is a conversation with love.

Connect with Johanna:

• Explore ways to work with her genius
• Hang out with her on TikTok and Instagram
• Johanna gave kudos to her mentor, Morgan from Equus Esoterica
• Curious about a session with Johanna? I recorded 2 episodes featuring the wisdom she shared in my personal sessions on my Insightful podcast:
  • Cosmic conversations with my cats
  • My dog taught me how to manifest money

Disclaimer:
This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your doctor, therapist, or financial advisor for medical, mental health, or financial advice.

Transcript

Ashley Mondor: . [00:00:00] Oh my God, I'm so excited. I am vibrating out of my body right now because I have Johanna here with me today. And before I introduce you to this beautiful, magical, incredibly gifted woman, I wanted to share a little bit about, oh God, this hair is in my face. Okay, sorry. I'm so excited because I was just scrolling on TikTok one day and because I live in the metaphysical magical realms, Johanna's content surface for me, and she's an animal communicator.

And before we dig into that. I remember looking through her videos because on her video she has quotes that has been pulled through from sessions with her clients and they stopped me in my tracks because I was like, wait, what? You can get information like this from people or from pets, you know, and animals.

And she has talked to orcas and pelicans and snakes and, and she helps clients, connect with their pets to be able to, [00:01:00] and like I'll share, for me, after I saw the quotes, I was like, oh, we're having issues . Medical issues with our pets and our vet. They're amazing, but they kept doing the same things and they weren't exploring other options.

So, of course, the issues that we were running into weren't changing. And I thought maybe, if anything, I can just connect with Johanna and feel her energy, but also maybe she can help me work with my, my pets. And just so you guys know, I have five animals. I have three cats and two dogs. And so my first session with Johanna absolutely fundamentally blew my mind so much so that I was like, uh, I'm gonna tell all of my friends about you.

Like I need all of my friends to work with you. So let me just open and welcome Johanna, welcome. I'm so happy to have you here. If you could share with me where are you in the world, what do you do? Uh, how did you get your start in this? Thank you for being here. [00:02:00] 

Johanna Bloom: Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here with you.

Um, first of all, thank you for being patient with my tech. We had to reschedule a couple of times for my mic, but we have it now and it seems like it's gonna get a really good quality recording for you guys. So, uh, my name is Johanna. I'm an animal communicator. I live in Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA and I have been doing professional online sessions for about a year now.

And before that I got my start in horse training. Uh, I used to train horses for a living and I would travel the country. I would take gigs, um, 'cause I was good with difficult horses and young horses. So I would take these gigs, and I would train horses for a breeder. They'd have like a, a crop of young horses, and I'd teach them how to get ridden under saddle.

Um, gently. I'm not a believer in bronc methods. Thankfully the old cowboy techniques are starting to leave. So I'm a big proponent of natural horsemanship, and I, I could tell you my epiphany story, [00:03:00] realized that animal communication was real. Okay. So I was training this horse. Her name was Fem Fatal.

She was a very talented jumping horse who had already had a career. I wasn't starting her under saddle, I was rehabbing her because she had a lot of trauma. Whoever trained her had, traumatized her. So it was a lot of like head flinging and mistrust. And, uh, to her credit, she came around real fast.

We worked together for a couple months and had a really nice little relationship. But there was one day she started rearing. Not like, you know, anything crazy, but her front feet were coming up off the ground and she would didn't wanna work. And I went through my mental checklist. You know, I'm a big believer that if the animal is misbehaving, we don't punish the naughtiness.

You know, we try to get to the bottom of it because that wasn't a normal behavior for her. And I went through, you know, has something changed in her diet, in her environment? Is her equipment bothering her? I went through all of it and I couldn't come up with anything. So I was sitting on her like stumped, and I got this really clear mental image of the bottom [00:04:00] of her foot, and also a really clear impression about which foot it was.

I got off, I picked up the foot, I looked at it, it looked fine. But then I got a really clear concept like impression that there was an abscess under the frog, really specific part of the foot. And if I went in there with my hoof knife, I would be able to fix it. I would be able to get it out. So I did, I just kind of followed this intuition and I went and got my hoof knife and I peeled back just a little tiny bit of the hoof and poof, you know, a little abscess ruptured, which was really gross.

But it seemed to give her a lot of relief. And I got back on her. I finished the ride. No more rearing, like everything was completely fine. And I realized she had communicated with me, like she had sent me really, really clear mental images and concepts about what the problem was, what she needed me to do about it.

There's no way I could have guessed that, that it was that specific thing. And I'd had this kind of experience before, but I had kind of [00:05:00] chalked it up to like empathy or like. Maybe I'm just a, a really good guesser, you know, but this experience, I was like, no. Like she, she talked to me. So then I started to explore that and become a little bit more conscious of it, you know, when it's, when it's actually the animal talking, and how to separate their thoughts from my thoughts and how to get into that, that clear meditative state where I can hear them really clearly.

And then it turned into, you know, I took some training and learned how to do it from a distance, and now I, now I get to talk to animals all over the world, all different kinds of animals. And I love what I do. Oh, 

Ashley Mondor: that is, oh, I have the chills. Like, oh my God. And what's cool is you shared, you got a mental image, right?

Because for me, I'm like, how, when you think of animal communication, I'm like, do you hear words? Do you get images? Do you get feelings in your body? Like, how does that work for you? 

Johanna Bloom: For me personally, it's all of the above. It's a very multi [00:06:00] multimedia experience. I'll get images, I will hear words and phrases.

Some of that I think is my spirit team helping me to translate. And then sensations in my body that correlates what the animal's feeling both mentally and physically. So it's really important for me to be in a very like zen blank slate kind of space. When I approach my sessions. I always meditate beforehand, so that I know that what, what's coming through, you know, the thoughts and the feelings are from your animal, not from me.

So that's part of my practice. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, okay. That makes sense. And are you meditating? Like an hour a day or what happens for you? 

Johanna Bloom: Probably somewhere close to that. Yeah, it's a little bit sporadic. But I do meditate for probably about 20 minutes before each session. I do try to meditate between sessions.

I try to give myself a few minutes to like reset and ground myself. And then I do guided meditations, I do nature walks, I do sessions with my own animals. I'm in that state the entire time I'm riding my own horse, so [00:07:00] I get lots of practice. 

Ashley Mondor: Yes. Okay. That's so cool. I wanna come back to how you are doing horse training.

So have, you worked with wild horses and things like that? 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah, I do. I love wild horses. One of my very first horses was a wild mustang who had been captured and gentle and he took me all over God's green Earth. It was like I fell in love with horses because, um, I could go anywhere. He was my freedom.

Like he was so gentle and so trustworthy that my parents were comfortable sending their little 11-year-old, like out in the mountains in Colorado and I would just go ride him everywhere. So I love wild horses and I've, I've kept up with them. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh my goodness. Have you ever worked with a horse that didn't want to communicate with you or was stubborn or anything like that?

Johanna Bloom: Yeah, that's happened several times. Sometimes animals, when I first connect with their [00:08:00] energy, they're reluctant. They don't wanna talk to me right away. And most of the time I can work around that just by asking them why. I'll say like, Hey, you know, what's up? Why, why don't you wanna come in?

And, I get this from dogs a lot. They'll express suspicion like, Hey, like, you're not my person. Like, my job is to protect my person. You can't just come in. So I'll introduce myself. I'll explain what I'm doing. Some animals are, they don't wanna engage because they've had a trauma, they've had a traumatic experience with people, or they're feral, like wild mustangs sometimes, um, have this kind of energy where they're like, I don't really want anything to do with people.

I am not a fan of you guys. And they'll come in and they'll tell me that, which is nice, so I can at least get the 4 0 1 on, like why they don't wanna talk. But, for the most part, animals, like my clients who come to me, most people have a pretty established relationship with their animals, and so their animals are really excited to talk to them.

Normally it's like I can barely, I can barely get all the communication through. [00:09:00] Um, but it does happen sometimes where they're, they're a little reluctant and I kind of have to talk 'em in. I did a hedgehog the other day who. Was every time I tried to connect with his energy, he gave me this, like, it was like a little image of his little foot kind of flicking towards me.

And it was like me, like me, like go away, but in a very like tiny like, like passive aggressive kind of energy. And I was like, why don't you talk to me? And he said, um, he doesn't understand what we want from him. Like to him, he didn't understand the concept of friendship. He was like, what do you mean? We would just like talk and like do stuff together?

He explained the only bond he had had was with his mother. And he was like, if you guys are trying to replace that, like you can give up now. So it's, it's just a case by case, you know, they're all different. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, and I think one of my favorite things is I will always, I always seek out if you have published a new video, I, [00:10:00] it sounds obsessive, but I'm like, I always learn something in one of your videos or it changes my perspective.

And I remember, you had a session with a hedgehog and the hedgehog was like, they're called quills and just like delivered that way. And I was like, well, damn, we know. But like, ow. 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah, I called him spines and I couldn't even finish the rest of my statement before he was in my ear. Like, no, like you mispronounced it, it quills.

I was like, oh, okay. Like, you know, that's the kind of thing I expect from the owner to tell me that. But this one came straight from him. 

Ashley Mondor: Well, and I also remember I have two, uh, one where I don't remember what being it was, but it was so shocked. It was like, we're not supposed to talk to each other. I think it was maybe a frog or something.

Maybe Uhhuh. 

Johanna Bloom: It was a toad. I could, a little toad that I was just walking past one day and he was, he was like hopping away from me and I was like, wait, [00:11:00] can we talk? And he was like, no, like you and I don't talk. 

Ashley Mondor: You are like friends maybe. And the other one that became top of mind when I saw this, I was like, oh, it's really interesting, was when you had connected to an orca and the orca was saying that.

Or something around, typically you guys, we can't communicate with each other because it ends up bad for the messenger. And what's interesting about that is I know that there are laws in place where you are not allowed to communicate with dolphins. Mm-hmm. And I, and I think that's so interesting because it speaks to the intelligence piece and like, what could happen if we were talking to orcas and to dolphins who have such high consciousness, you know?

Johanna Bloom: Yep. Yeah, I think that's definitely true. Um, they have, it's, it's just, it's mind blowing. I mean, you'd think I'd be used to this by now, but I'm not. Every single session there's new things that come through, I'm just like, [00:12:00] whoa. Like I have to go sit down and reassess what I thought about the way animals think.

That's why I keep the quote books, because they're just as revolutionary for me as they are for you. Yeah. 

Ashley Mondor: Do you know, can animals communicate with each other? Yeah. Like different species? 

Johanna Bloom: Yes, they can. I actually had a conversation with my cat about this. I have a cat named Omen, who's a really good hunter.

And I was wondering one day, like, wait a minute, if they can all talk to each other all the time. When an animal hunts another animal, they have to hide themselves energetically as well as physically. And I was like, how does that even work? Like, how, how can you even do that? And my cat told me that it has to do with the state of mind when he enters a state of focus where he is not at all self-conscious, like he's just completely focused on his prey and his environment.

He almost like removes himself from his own awareness [00:13:00] somehow. And then other animals have a hard time sensing him too. It was like when he's, when he's. Yeah, that's the best way I can, I can sum it up is really, really interesting. 

Ashley Mondor: Wow, that is so cool. I, it makes so much sense though, but to have language around that, oh my god.

Do you, this is something, because I have walked through this journey and I'd love your perspective on it. I have had to put my pets down and it's always really, really, really hard, you know? And it's like, am I making the right decision if I pay for their vet bills? Like, can I have more time with them?

Are they gonna be in pain? Can you tell me, are they okay with death? Are they okay with our decisions? Like, how does that work? 

Johanna Bloom: Oh yeah. Thanks for asking. That's one of the biggest questions I get because a lot of people find me when their pet is in a state of crisis, you know, they'll come to me, there's like some really serious medical issues, or they're at the end of life and they wanna know what their animal [00:14:00] wants.

The most common thing that animals tell me right away, almost every single time this conversation comes up, is that the euthanizing process is easier on the animal than it is on us. They always say like, it's harder on you. The person who's having to make these logistical decisions and decide when is the best time to go, the animal is usually like pretty open to the process.

They often thank people for euthanizing them. Just so you guys know, we can also communicate with animals who are deceased. Across the Rainbow Bridge. It's the exact same process. There's usually a little transition period for them, but then they come through just as clearly. So I've had animals on both sides of the bridge.

Thank their owners for euthanizing them. They do really appreciate that. They say it makes the transition a lot easier for them. There's less trauma to unpack on the other side so that they can come back sooner. And they always tell their people like, you need to take your mental health into consideration when you're making the decision.

[00:15:00] Like, it's so sweet. It's very selfless the way it comes through. Sometimes they'll tell me a limit. They'll give me like, Hey, like, let it go for a couple more days. And then if I'm not better, please just put me down. 'cause I don't wanna, I had a cat recently say she didn't wanna experience sepsis of where kind of her system was heading.

I had a dog who's was experiencing heart failure who said he didn't want to get to the point where he couldn't breathe. 'cause there was a lot of fluid going on, and he was kind of on life support. And so he said like, yeah, if we get to the point where I'm coughing and I can't breathe, like that's, that's it for me.

I don't wanna experience that. But then, you know, they do always get like, Hey, maybe I'll get better. And then they talk about this cycle where they're gonna get better for a little while, especially older animals or sick animals. They're gonna get better for a little while and then they're gonna get sick again, and they're gonna get better for a little while and then sick again.

And so they always tell their people like, it's okay to let me go now. They really don't, they don't seem to prioritize length of life the way that we do. It's more like we are holding onto them because we [00:16:00] love them and need them, and they understand that. And so those messages are always so heartfelt and like so much compassion and love from the animal about the process that we are going through to, you know, to like mentally and, and physically prepare for this kind of transition and facilitate that for them.

They're really thankful and they hold space for us to, to try to figure out all the emotions that we're going through. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, I feel like people hearing that it's gonna lighten the weight on their heart, right? Because we feel so guilty or scared and it's like, are we making the right decision because we're doing this from a place of love, but like, we love you so much and we don't want you to go.

And while you were talking and you were saying, you know, they can come back to us. Have you, because I, I know that you hold sessions for people whose pets have passed. Do they choose us time and time again in their incarnations or like, have you experienced that at all? 

Johanna Bloom: They [00:17:00] definitely do. Yeah. I've had.

Rainbow Bridge sessions where the pet will literally say I'm coming back. You should watch out for a cat with beautiful eyes showing up at your doorstep. Or they'll have a conversation with their person about like, do you want me to come back? And it'll become like a, a dialogue. And so they're definitely capable of reincarnating whenever they want, which is I think why death itself isn't as hard on them as it is on us because they understand that.

I have had, the word soul contract comes through in a lot of my sessions where the animal says like, yeah, I came here to help you with this specific thing in your life, and congratulations, you just solved it. You know, or they'll, they'll be like, yeah, we're here together to learn to learn this thing.

Like, we both with this one thing and we're here to figure it out together. And we planned this before we came. This is a soul contract. I also have a really interesting visual that's come through from a couple different animals now where they're describing [00:18:00] the kind of the distance from our world to the spiritual world.

And they, I've had this image come through twice of a pair of 3D glasses, like old fashioned 3D glasses that are red in one eye and blue on the other eye. You know how if you look at those images without the glasses, you'll see two images. It's like the same image. They're just slightly displaced from each other.

And when you put on the glasses, it merges them into one. They give me that image of the two that are slightly displaced and they say that's how far away the spiritual world is from the physical world. It's just slightly off. It's really not far.

Ashley Mondor: Oh my God. Wow. So. That's to 

Johanna Bloom: illustrate don't stress about losing me. 'cause I'm really not gonna be that far away. We just have to transition into an energetic relationship instead of a physical relationship, which is really hard for humans because we live so much in the physical world and we're [00:19:00] conditioned to believe that's the only world that's real.

Ashley Mondor: Whoa. True. Yes. And I'm thinking, have you had sessions with people whose pets have passed and they're like, I can't feel them. I haven't experienced them because I have friends who are like, my dog died and they haven't given me any signs. Did they just abandon me? Mm-hmm. 

Johanna Bloom: Yes, I have. I have clients come in and say exactly that.

Sometimes the animal needed some time to transition and so they weren't around quite as much, but sometimes the person had some kind of block, like some kind of previous belief about that process, about connecting with the energy world. That was, sort of blocking them from hearing their animal or sometimes I don't know, it's kind of custom to the situation, but we were always able to talk through it.

We were always able to find what the communication block was. And after that, usually the, the person started receiving signs and we would, we would confirm what the animal, like a specific thing. A lot of the time it's [00:20:00] feathers. I had a dog recently though, say, feathers are cliche. I'm gonna communicate with you.

And it was like cheeseburgers. We said, you cheeseburgers as signs. 'cause everyone uses feathers. 

Ashley Mondor: You know what? Be unique. Be you. Yes. Oh, okay. That is amazing. Say someone can't work with you yet, but they want to, you know, communicate with their pet. Would you have any advice for people? Because it's a different language, it's a different way of tuning in.

And I'd love to know if you have any guidance. 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. I do. So the number one thing that comes through for me, my clients, my students, is getting out of your head because we're, and I think society pushes us to be in this sort of mental overwhelm state where our brain is in control and our brain is trying to rely on the things that it sees and hears physically.

And so the, the first thing is to shift [00:21:00] out of that mental state. And the way you do that is you can't think your way out of it. You have to surrender the control that your brain is used to having, which is really hard to do. The best way to do it is to get out in nature, do a sport, do something that grounds you in your body. From what the animals have described you, you physically shift your consciousness from being located in your head to further down your body.

You do deep breathing. We bring in messages with our diaphragm, like the, solar plexus is where the intuition has actually come from when we're engaging energetically. So it's not, you're not gonna hear it in your head. Your, your brain is gonna help you interpret some of the things that you hear, but the energy is gonna come in through your solar plexus.

So deep breathing is really important. Meditation, the number one thing that you can do to improve your ability to channel, whether it's animals or something else entirely, is meditation. And if you're new to meditation, you know, the point of meditation is not just sit there with a perfectly blank mind.

I can't do that. I like, I, I'm sure some people can, but I can't. The [00:22:00] point of meditation is just to distance yourself from your thoughts a little bit. I had an animal say you wanna wave at your thoughts as they pass by and not have to take the bait it like he described it as each of your thoughts is bait and you don't wanna like jump on each one because that keeps you in your head.

You wanna create some distance from your thoughts so that you can then observe them and stay in your body. I do guided meditations also. I find yoga nidra really helpful where they kind of guide you. It's not yoga, it's meditation where you're laying on your back, but they guide you through these physical things to help you refocus on your body.

If I'm really frazzled one day, I'll often do a yoga nidra either to unwind so I can sleep or before a session if I need to pull myself down out of whatever I'm obsessing about that day. 

Ashley Mondor: I love that. I love that because you're saying don't attach to the thought. Just let them flow by, and then you're creating wave to, you're creating space.

Yeah. I also find when you [00:23:00] said that our intuition is connected to our diaphragm, if you think about that, I mean, when we're in utero, how do we get nourishment and how do we connect through the feeling and stuff? It's through our, umbilical cords, you know, which makes a, it makes so much sense. And also, I remember there was a session you had with a horse, and I have always been a little bit afraid of horses just because, you know, they're so big and they're so in tune with you, but they said, put your attention into your feet.

Johanna Bloom: Yes. 

Ashley Mondor: I was like, oh yeah, why? Why has no one ever told me this before? What an incredible way to ground, even just as a human, but like putting your attention to the feet and then where you're rooted, you know? It's so simple, but we just, we get in our mind and then we let our mind take the wheel of our life.

Johanna Bloom: We do. Yeah. And it fights for control. It definitely does. It's a practice like while you're meditating or while you're learning to, to speak with animals, your brain will fight for control. It'll come in and try to say like, [00:24:00] oh, you're just assuming this, you're just making this up. You're just, you know, and all the, all the doubts that were programmed with growing up, it'll come back in.

So you have to override, you have to override your social programming to be able to do this, and that's really hard. Yeah. 

Ashley Mondor: And I mean, I was gonna ask you how you work through that, because I have been meditating for a while and when I start having information coming in through Spirit or whoever, like this year I connected with the Council of Nine.

I had no idea who that was. I know. And I was like, am I insane? And then my brain was like, this is just you making things up. And I'm like, I don't string sentences together in this way, you know? So as you started your practice in tuning in and actually validating what you were receiving, how did you work through your doubts?

Johanna Bloom: So I worked with my mentor when I was learning to do this from a distance especially, her name was Equus Esoterica. She's also a very talented horse trainer and [00:25:00] animal communicator. And I had her feedback. So she would assign me an animal and I would connect with the animal and do a, do a session, and then I would send it to her for feedback.

Then she would validate all of these different details. Like, yes, like this was, you know, this was an animal I'd never met before. And she would come back and say like, yes, uh, this horse has an automatic waterer. Or, yes, this horse is doing this type of work. Or Yes, this horse has this type of saddle. You know, none of us are a hundred percent accurate, especially when they're starting out.

But like, you know, 90, 95% of the details lined up with an animal I had never met before. So it overrode my brain's, you know, default of like, oh, you're just making this up based on what you already know about the animal. It's not even possible. In that case, I don't know the animal, I didn't even, yeah, I didn't even have a picture when I first started doing this.

So, and I would get visuals of what they looked like. I would get visuals about their owners and what their people looked like. Um, the kind of things they did together, the kind of lifestyle they enjoyed, the kind of food they ate. It was really, really [00:26:00] specific. So for me, I had enough of those experiences and I was like, this is real.

Like no one can convince me anymore. I've seen it too many times. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, okay. That makes sense. And I love that you led yourself to someone who does it so that you could develop your own practice and feel safe enough to do so. Right? Like the power of mentorship is out of this world. So I wanted to share some quotes that are my favorite.

Okay. 

Johanna Bloom: Love to know which ones are your favorite. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh God. Okay. I took screenshots because they have to live in my phone. What's interesting is that sometimes when I get really far up in my head, I will come back to these quotes because they're so grounding to me, or they're so expansive. So I have a few of them, and then I have a few for my session.

But before I get to my session where I bring up my dogs, I'll tell you why I was so enamored with Johanna, because I was like, this woman is very gifted. Okay. So first the quotes I found on her social, which, you can [00:27:00] find her at Bloom Animal Communication on TikTok and Instagram. Okay. So this is from a Calico cat.

This one, I swear to you. Oh my God. It grounds me every time. You can't think your way out of overthinking. You need to get grounded in your body. The solution is to change your habits. Mm-hmm.

Okay, next one. Talking with us doesn't normally go well for you. Your species attacks the messengers. An Orca. Mm-hmm. When you had this come through. Did you just see an orca go by and you were like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna connect with you. 

Johanna Bloom: Uh, so this, I have had that happen with Orcas before where one of 'em just reached out, out of the blue wall.

I was falling asleep, but it was a different one. This specific orca was, I think her name is Ika or Qua. And I read about her in a news story. She had just lost her calf. Like she, she, like her calf has died a few times in a row. And so she has a, a sort of support group on the [00:28:00] internet of people who are like really invested in her story and like, we're really rooting for this calf to survive.

And I just reached out and told her that I was like, you know. I just want you to know like we're we're behind you. Is there anything we can do? You know, I just, I just felt for her and so I reached out using a photo on the article, and, uh, at first I didn't get a res. The, the response I got was like, she'll get back to you if she wants to.

It was almost like I left a voicemail and I was like waiting for her to come back. But a few minutes later she did, and I got this mental image of this gigantic orca, like, and I, I saw a silhouette of how big I would be compared to her. It was like I was floating in the water right in front of her and her.

She, at first was pretty aggressive. She was like, do you know, are you aware how big I am compared to you? I could swallow you in one bite. And I was like, yes. Like I, I do know that. Um, and just kind of kept an attitude of like reverence to be talking with her. And she backed down and she [00:29:00] said, I'm sorry. I'm grieving, you know, the loss of my calf, so I'm, you know, my, my emotional state is a little bit different right now.

And I was like, I understand. And I told her what I wanted to tell her about the news articles and the people who are following her story and. She, she started asking me questions about my job. She was like, wait a minute. You're, you're like a translator. Like you, you bring this information back and forth.

And I was like, yeah. And she was like, oh, that doesn't normally go well for you guys. And her implication was like the witch hunts, you know, and like how animal communication has been stigmatized as like witchy or demonic, um, and how it often ends badly for animal communicators, at least in the past.

And I told her like, yeah, we're, you know, we're working on it. Progress society, you know, I'm, we're to the point where I can post about this openly on social media. So that's pretty exciting. But yeah, that's, that was the context and that's what she was saying. And she, she was amazing to talk to. Just this like very, um, ancient, very smart kind of presence.

[00:30:00] Like it, it felt different than anyone else I'd ever connected with. 

Ashley Mondor: When you say ancient, I know you're tuning in energetically. Do, can you describe what that feels like? 

Johanna Bloom: I can, the energy comes through as it's sort of, I get wrapped up in it. Like I feel my own energy shift just from being exposed to it.

And it also feels kind of collective. Like I was, I was sort of aware of her connections with the rest of her, I guess you would call it a pod, her family group. I was kind of aware that like others were listening in on this session and that there was this strong implication, like it's an honor to talk to her.

So, you know, you better choose your words carefully. And, uh, I, I felt her grief. It made me wanna cry. I felt, um, I, I actually wrote down my notes on this whole session. I wish I could remember all of it. The thing about channeling is, um. The memory part of my brain [00:31:00] is not fully engaged. I'm kind of in a different state of mind, so I have to write down everything as soon as I finish or else the details get foggy really quickly.

So that's what's happening now. I do have session notes though that I can send you later, but it was very, very cool experience. Um, and I felt, um, it was life changing. It was one of those experiences I was like, oh my gosh, like this, this is available. Like this kind of consciousness, this kind of energy is, is out there.

And she's willing to talk to me like, oh my gosh. Like, I I, it, it was a big week for me. 

Ashley Mondor: That's so cool. I love that. Thank you for sharing that, that like, it's blowing my mind because if you can access wisdom.

Like they say, we know more about space than we do in the oceans, you know? And there's just so much that we can learn from these beings. If we would create the space and intentionally connect and trust all, you know, it's a whole thing, but that's why you exist, Johanna, so that you can go first so we can learn, you know?

Okay. Other ones. I have, oh, [00:32:00] this was so good specifically because I had walked through a similar journey. A relationship is like bouncing a ball back and forth. Your ex should learn that it's not about winning, it's about the connection created by passing the ball dog. 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah, that one was so cool.

That was from a dog who was very athletic and very into sports, so I got a lot of like ball and sports analogies in that session. But that one was. So profound for his, his owner who had just been through a breakup. Yes. 

Ashley Mondor: And I, I had been in a relationship that mirrored that, what the client went through, and I was like, you know what?

If I could have had that metaphor at that time, I would've made different decisions. Okay. Uh, this next one, I swear to you, I think about this one almost daily, which sounds Oh, okay. I don't know if you said Aziza was running back and forth. Okay. This is from a cat money, can't buy any of the really important things.

Money just buys the packaging. It comes in. Mm-hmm. [00:33:00] 

Johanna Bloom: That was actually my cat. My cat said that. 

Ashley Mondor: Omen, Eden, 

Johanna Bloom: the younger one. Eden. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh my God. Okay. Also, I have a, a random question before I pull a few more quotes. When you have your, like Oman and Eden, did they tell you what their names are or did you get an impression or how did that work?

Johanna Bloom: So when I adopted Omen, and it was a few years ago and it was before I was consciously connecting with animals other than horses, I think I, I was pretty aware of it with horses. Um, but I, I did have a really long specific naming process and I, it was like going back and forth and like finding the one that felt right on a really deep level.

So it's definitely possible they helped me choose their names. Ever since then though, I have learned that they do have a name that their mother gives them. Like they, they do have a name that, that she gives to them at birth, and sometimes they're willing to share that with me. It comes through [00:34:00] as like an image and sometimes they're not.

I connected with a bald eagle recently. I was like out on, out boating and I just saw a bald eagle in a tree. This was like last weekend, and I asked to connect. And he was like, okay. And gave me an image of sharpening his talons on the tree and also told me he doesn't like them to be too sharp because he needs some texture to grab fish.

And I was like, oh, like that makes sense. And I was like, can you tell me your name? And he was like, no. Only my friends know my name. My name is what my friends call me. And you are not a friend. So like back off he was, he was willing to talk to me, but he wasn't willing to tell me his name. So that was interesting.

But, I have had animals say they have multiple names over the course of their lifetime. A lot of them like that. Having like different names for different versions of themselves or for different time periods. Um, and I, at this point, I could name an animal, you know, like, Hey, hey, what was your original name?

And I would get an image or a concept and try to put that into words. 

Ashley Mondor: That's so [00:35:00] cool. Also that you chatted with an eagle and it was like, I have boundaries. 

Johanna Bloom: I did, yeah. It was like, it was like, know your limits woman. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, okay. Next one. Because I think everyone should hear this. This is by a cat. Listen to your body.

It will tell you no before your mind does. Mm-hmm. 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. That one was about relationships. That one was, um, the person tended to get kind of sucked into these codependent patterns with other people. Um, and the, the cat was advising like, you, you need to pay attention to your body in these situations. 'cause it, it will tell you what's going on energetically before your brain has a chance to like figure it out.

Ashley Mondor: Yes. And if you think about it, we're conditioned to not listen to our body. We're conditioned to be like the intellect and it, it really is so damaging for us. But I was like, man, this is so helpful. My gosh. Okay. Aziza. Um, I, she's running 

Johanna Bloom: her tail in the air. It's so [00:36:00] 

Ashley Mondor: Okay. She's like, I will be part of this no matter what.

This next one I love. I think also everyone should hear this, we don't see death like humans do. For us, death is like getting off one train and boarding the next one. And this was from a cat 

Johanna Bloom: that, um, train analogy comes through surprisingly often. Especially for pets who live near a train track.

It seems to be like a theme for them, but I, I think it's also just something that they know that we understand. So they phrase it that way. It's like you just get off one train and board the next one. It's not like they don't experience the same kind of dread and uncertainty that we do. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. And I just thought that was really helpful because so many people fear death, not realizing it can just be a transition.

And your pet loved one, you know, is just getting ready to come on the next train to join you on their journey. Like you're gonna meet them at that stop should you want that, you know? And then also Johanna shares [00:37:00] funny quotes and this one is my jam. I have deadly feet a cat. 

Johanna Bloom: Yep. I also had a snake say, cats have weapons on all sides.

It's not fair. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh my God. I remember you had a snake say that they liked being in the bathtub in the water. 'cause they felt like an anaconda. 

Johanna Bloom: Mm-hmm. Yep. Oh, that was early. That was one of my first sessions, my first distance sessions. And I had to ask like, how do you know what anacondas are? And the snake said, we're all connected.

Like we know who they are, they know who we are. And the snake also expressed that he's able to watch the Nature Channel when his person turns that on. He just doesn't watch with his eyes. Like somehow he like tunes in energetically to what's being said. So that's fascinating. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay, now I wanna tell you a little bit about my first session with Johanna because I've had two [00:38:00] and I'm gonna have three.

'cause we had a cat walk into our life, the crazy one running around, uh, as they do, but. I booked in with Johanna because I knew I had at least two questions for my dog. So I brought in my German Shepherd Kuda and I brought in Tikka, who she is a rescue and we don't know what she is, but she has a chow tongue.

And so that's my jam. So I came in because they were have, Tika was having gut issues that the vets couldn't figure out and it was so eye-opening, hearing There are things that we can do specifically, like I see you talk about all the time, Johanna, don't give them corn. Like corn is not the vibe. 

Johanna Bloom: Say that.

Don't buy food that has corn in it. Like horses, dogs, cats. I hear it over and over and over again. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. And that was just, you know, enlightening. And now I'm way more conscious. I look at the back of the food and I'm like, oh no, this is not it. And then I started bringing in Johanna's recommendations and we're seeing changes.

Like it's really exciting, but I. [00:39:00] Kuda came through and there were some things that he said. And also to back up a little bit, why I was so fascinated with Johanna is because she would say things that she would have no idea what I was walking through or we were navigating and she would pull through things that, because I live with these pets, I'm like, that's their personality.

I know to a T. Like what in the actual heck is happening? So I wanted to share some things that Kuda shared because I thought, dang, this was so good. A few things. He said, stress is bad for everyone. Don't let work convince you that you need to be stressed out. 

Johanna Bloom: Mm-hmm. 

Ashley Mondor: If that doesn't fly in the face of everything that we walk through.

Okay. Another one, which made me cry, he said, I get worried when you stop singing. It means something is wrong and. I, so for a little bit more context, I [00:40:00] have been in a corporate job. Before that I was in my heart healing business full time. And when I went back to corporate, it's because I had to pay down debts and clear my karmic boards, and I had to be there for many reasons.

Now I can see in hindsight, but when I'm happy I sing. And for two years I haven't really been singing at all. And when you pulled that through, I was like, in no way would Johanna know that. 

Johanna Bloom: Nope, nope. But your dog did. He also gave me that image. It was a really specific image of a chimney and a heart. And he said, you are the hearth, like the heart of the home, and like your emotions influence everybody else.

I think that was the same dog, wasn't it? 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. And I was like, and I didn't tell Johanna because she didn't know, but I was like, I literally do heart healing. Like I help people heal hearts 

Johanna Bloom: more about the heart healing business at that point. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. And then also what was interesting was you. We're talking about how they could see rainbow prisms of energy in [00:41:00] my home and Yeah, my cats.

Yeah. And I remember being like, well, Johanna doesn't know this because I had just had a session with a woman who channels, and she says that I bring through like Rainbow wholeness codes through my heart to help people heal. And I'm like, what, 

Johanna Bloom: Johanna, this is 

Ashley Mondor: so cool. 

Johanna Bloom: You got two different spiritual intuitives who don't know you, telling you the same thing.

That's pretty crazy. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. Like the odds of that. And it's so specific, right? Oh, another thing. So Kuda is very, very, very, very smart and attentive and I, but we also think like he's like a little kid because he is very expressive, very joyful, all this stuff. And he whines all the time. And Johanna was talking to me about why he whines.

And one of the things that came through that I want all pet owners to hear, 'cause I thought this was amazing. He said, please talk to me and tell me what is wrong so I can help. We can tackle the issue together. I can [00:42:00] help energetically with some things in your world if you include me and explain what's going on because, and that shifted something in me profoundly because I realized that it's not just me taking care of these pets and trying to give them an enriching life.

I'm also allowed to be supported by them through my hardship, but I have to actually talk to them, you know, I have to make the connection and allow and receive the guidance. Hmm. 

Johanna Bloom: That's something that comes up a lot actually. It's sort of, you know, it usually blows our minds when we hear super wise voices from our animals, because we see them as little dorks a lot of the time.

You know, they're licking their butts and they're getting up into all kinds of shenanigans. Um, and so a lot of the time people will express that, like, wow, I just really didn't see my animal in this light. You know, it's, I have to shift now because I, this is, I saw him as like a little baby who needed help.[00:43:00] 

Um, and the things that animals have said the most about that paradox is that humans are the masters of the physical world. Um, especially the societies that we've created. You know, we know how those work. We've, we run those. And so they do need our help to navigate those kind of physical details. But they're the masters of the energetic and the spiritual.

And so as soon as we can hear them and there, there's actually a back and forth, we have a lot more power to. Um, accommodate what they need and to integrate their feedback. Um, yeah. Yeah. 

Ashley Mondor: That, oh my God. Okay. Because he was like, you guys view me like a little kid, and in some ways it's fair in other ways, I wanna be part of your world.

I wanna be in the know. And I, I was like, oh, wow. It's so much deeper than I thought it was, you know, because now I have a partner and one of the things that he does that he shared in our session is that he brings joy. And if I can tune in and [00:44:00] talk to him, he can change the energetics of what we're walking through.

Oh, 

Johanna Bloom: you told me that humans sometimes see silliness as like a childish quality. Like, oh, you can't be like this goofy and also be wise, but I've had several different animals tell me like, no, like joy is the highest frequency, like silliness and laughter and the ability to be childish, like. That's actually a sign of a very enlightened being.

So the way humans look at this is backwards. Oh, 

Ashley Mondor: I just want everyone to let that land. Like it's okay to be joyful. In fact, it's encouraged. You know, another thing that he said, two things. Your work is sucking the beauty out of you. Please go back to heart healing. And I was like, that made me burst into tears because I had seen in a moment's notice, I was like, every time I had been short-tempered with him or annoyed or the way that I was like anxious and spinning out just mad at the world.

And for him to [00:45:00] reflect that back to me, I was like, that actually was a catalyst for me, Johanna, to be like, I actually can't do this job anymore because I want to be joy. I want to be, I wanna see and experience beauty. So thank you for that. Another thing that he said that I thought was beautiful, most health problems have an emotional cause.

Johanna Bloom: That one comes through all the time. People will ask me about a health problem and we want, you know, they'll tell me all the things that their vet has recommended. And you know, I, I will never tell you not to go to the vet because that, you know, veterinary medicine is important too, but what the animals always say is like, we can get all kinds of medicine to mask the symptoms, but if you really want to heal what's going on at the root, we need to look at the emotions and the energy dynamics that are going on in our family.

And that have happened in my past. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, I mean, and I hope humans can hear that too, you know? 

Johanna Bloom: True best. 

Ashley Mondor: Yes. And [00:46:00] you had shared, um, with Kuda, he brought through how to manifest money, which I thought was really interesting. And you, I've read this in other quotes where it's like, dang, they're really giving us the juice, man.

Like, this is amazing. One of the things that he said was your feelings change the world around you, what you're feeling on the inside, your reality will start to reflect that back to you. Put yourself in more situations that make you happy and make you feel calm.

Johanna Bloom: That one comes through every time that client's facing financial difficulties. Sometimes they'll bring it up. Sometimes the animal will bring it up, whereas like having some financial stress, the animal will always say, you need to embody the energy of how it will feel to have abundance. You don't wanna get stuck in a loop of wanting, um, you wanna relax, enjoy yourself.

Get back to that like more childlike state of, uh, of joy, [00:47:00] like enjoying what you do, not burning yourself out. I actually. At some point, I wanna shift the topic to what you wrote in Soul Rising, because you had a couple quotes in there that are all along these same lines that I resonated with me so much and like so many of my animal sessions are like, spot on with what you said.

Ashley Mondor: Yes. Oh my God, thank you. We can shift that now. 'cause that was my favorite thing. Oh my God. So if you don't know, I was one of 33 women authors for a book called Soul Rising g uidance for navigating your Spiritual Awakening. And my topic was about having to go back to corporate and how brutal that was for my ego.

But now I see it actually was one of the biggest gifts in my life. And Johanna graciously got the book and she was reflecting back to me about my chapter, how she had walked a similar journey. And I was like, oh, Johanna, do you wanna talk about that? So can you tell me what happened with you and what you navigated and how you can even do the work that you're doing right now?

Johanna Bloom: So [00:48:00] I, like I've said, I was a horse trainer, but. Um, training jobs are gig jobs. Like, you know, you take a couple months for a couple years, train up all the young horses and then the owner doesn't wanna just keep around. Uh, 'cause it's expensive. So I would have to find different work in between. So I'm also an artist and the way that I monetized that for seven years was by tattooing.

I learned to be tattoo artist and so I was in and out of a whole bunch of different shops. It was basically like horse training, tattooing, horse training, tattooing. I would just like bounce back and forth 'cause neither of those are very stable industries. So you get a job that lasts a little bit and then you, you have to find the next one.

Um, I. I think that that was really important for me in different ways. Tattooing developed my ability to work with clients, have a wide variety of clients, maintain client relationships, value my work, and be willing to charge for it. That was something that was really hard for me. I think it's a hard, it's, I think it's hard for a lot of, um, spiritual workers or artists or we're shy, you know, we're like, [00:49:00] society doesn't value what we do.

It's hard for us to like rise above that. So it was good for me in a lot of ways, but also the art practice. Because in order to, to tattoo, I have to hold an image. You know, I have a reference image, but I have to hold an image in my mind for hours while I executed on someone's skin. And I think that that really helped my visual mind.

Like all these visuals that I get from animals now come through so easily. Emotions to connecting to the client's emotions and helping them to create a design that is like reflective of, of what they're trying to express. And pet portraits. I still do pet portraits actually, where, and my animal communication business works this way too.

I need a photo and as soon as I see the photo, I visually connect to the animal's energy. So that's the same process I use when I'm making a portrait. I'm like connecting with the animal's energy. And I noticed even, even way back when I was doing animal portraits, I would get a really, really distinct feeling for that animal's personality and their relationship with their person.

And I think it was my, my early [00:50:00] channel work, you know, was, was connecting with them that way through the image the same way I do now. So it was really valuable, you know, and those, those were the good things that I got out of it that have translated to my animal communication business. And I wouldn't be here without it.

Uh, however, it was really, really hard. Um, the constant transitions, the constant moving. I think I moved. Like 24 times in 29 years just like chasing work all over the country. And a lot of that came from my own mindset, my own self doubts. Um, but, uh, I worked through a lot of the same things you did where, you know, I would have, I, I would make a step forward with, with horse training and start to like really feel like I was connecting with them and doing a good job.

And then the whole thing would come crashing down. I had to get back into tattooing again. I had to, same thing as you, like, go back to an industry I had kind of thought I'd graduated from and I had to heal, uh, some of the, the mindsets that were, that were dragging me back. For me it was like a cult mindset.

A [00:51:00] theme that kept coming up in all of my jobs were these like isolated us versus them kind of environments. Whether it was a, a dressage barn or a tattoo shop. It was like, you know, we are the only ones who were doing it right. Everyone else is out to get us, uh, very us versus them. And so I had to work through my own.

The childhood origins of that mindset for me and start deconstructing, like, why do I always end up back here, you know, in some kind of cult. Yeah. I, I, I really need to be getting out of this and working through. But, um, there were, there was some things that you said in your excerpt from that book, by the way.

You should, you should read it because it flowed so nicely. And I, I felt so connected to what you said. It was so easy to read. And like a couple of the quotes, I wrote them down. Um, you said, I tried to keep my business afloat, but people can intuitively feel that energy. They can sense when you're exhausted and hopeless, even when you try to put a pretty filter over it.

That was so [00:52:00] true. Like, I struggled with social media marketing for so many years trying to get art off the ground or trying to get something off the ground and, you know, I, I, I would like copy trends and I, I even like took training on like, how do I influence the algorithm? Um. It never panned out for me until I relaxed, until I was in like a different mindset.

I think the first time my animal communication tiktoks went viral, I was on vacation. Like, I wasn't even, like, I posted the video like a week before and I was just like off in Florida enjoying some beach time, and all of a sudden it blows up and all these bookings start rolling in. And that's been really consistent for me.

Like, anytime I'm in like a, a feeling of burnout or I start to get into that grind mindset of like, I have to post more, I have to post more. That's my bookings go down. Like it's, it's crazy the way that it has nothing to do with how much I post or how much I grind or how hard I try, it has more to do with like me being in a, like a joyful, grounded state of mind.

That's when my bookings come in. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. [00:53:00] And I wanna speak to that, what you're saying it like. Just to expand people, because I also have felt that, and I still feel that urgency of like, I need to post today. I haven't posted it in like a week before and people are gonna forget about me, but I literally promise you I seek out Johanna.

I type her name in and I'm like, did she post anything yet? No, she didn't. And when she does, it's like, Ooh, I have something new I get to read. Like, that's so exciting. And I say that because people are trying to beat or compete with an algorithm, but it's like, just be relaxed, be a human. Share your gifts.

Like the right people will resonate and could fundamentally change your life. Like you could have one connection and you're like, okay, that's great. I'm glad that I just relaxed about it. 

Johanna Bloom: And that's true too. I am not the most regular, uh, social media content producer because it burns me out. Like it kind of stresses out.

You have to make this video and compile all the best quotes and. Put it on, you [00:54:00] know, pretty scenery and then time, everything just right and set it to the right music and then you're gonna like watch the views and obsess over them. Like, I just need a break a lot of the time I, I probably only post a couple times a month anymore, 

Ashley Mondor: which I think is great 

Johanna Bloom: that way, like it genuinely does because I'm not burned out.

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. Yes. Oh, I love it. 

Johanna Bloom: The other one was your, you talked about spiritual awakenings and being forged by fire instead of like rainbows and joy. Visualize when we're talking about the, the spiritual awakening process. Um, I know you mentioned like, have I ever connected insects? So I did, uh, once and what they said was, it's very painful to become a butterfly.

Like that process of being in a cocoon is physically painful for them. It's not like they're conscious for it. And the implication was like, that's the, the point of becoming a butterfly [00:55:00] is to learn, um, the transformative power of pain. And that's why there's such a powerful symbol that way. So when you wrote, like what you wrote in your book about it being forged by fire, like that's, that's kind of the creation process we go through.

I resonate with that a hundred percent. I think the animals do too. 

Ashley Mondor: I love that. And what's so cool too, if people don't know, butterflies have these things called imaginal cells, and they're so cool because when they're in. When they're like growing as a baby or whatever, I forget what stage that's called, you know, but when they're in there, they have these cells from birth that know they're gonna be a butterfly.

It's destined for them. And they may not know as like that or whatever, but when they're in that cocoon state, these imaginal cells activate their antennas, their legs, their wings, and they become this and it, it always reminds me, although we may not know where we're going, our soul knows.

Our souls are like the imaginal cells. You just have to [00:56:00] trust the process and flow with the pain instead of trying to resist it and fight it, which is what our human ego wants to do. 'cause we don't like change. 

Johanna Bloom: I also heard recently that they completely liquify. Like, they just become complete mush. It's like a total death of the old self.

Like, like for real. It's like a really powerful metaphor. Yes. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh. So thank you for bringing that up. I also was like, Hey, Johanna, would you be open to sharing some of your most favorite quotes that you've had in session? Do you have some? 

Johanna Bloom: So one of 'em though was from your session, it was something your cat said.

You'll have to remind me which one it was. But the concept was, it actually took me a couple minutes to translate this because the images were so specific and something I had never really experienced before. Um, but what her cat, so what Ashley's cat said is that he, it's a he, right? 

Ashley Mondor: Yep. [00:57:00] 

Johanna Bloom: Guards the family against energy.

Other, like other dimensions or other places. And the way the visual that came through was like, it was like a black sheet that it had holes poked in it. Um, and what her cat told me was that when someone uses energy work in a negative way, kind of like what, you know, what we'd think of as like witchcraft or like someone's trying to send a curse or someone's like angry at you and like sending it energetically, it creates these little holes, like just these, these little like kind of innocent looking little pin pricks somehow around the family, like in in the structure that surrounds her family energetically.

And this cat's role was to energetically watch those and plug them. Like I, I still don't fully understand what that process was. I think Ashley even asked like, can we help you with this process? And the cat was kind of [00:58:00] like, no, like this is really my thing. Like you go work with your other cat. And, uh, but yeah, it.

That, that one really blew my mind. Like that was a concept that I hadn't, I hadn't fully experienced before, except especially with such a powerful visual. 

Ashley Mondor: And what was cool about that is, so that's Fern. And Fern is a tuxedo cat, and I rescued him from the Humane Society. And he, last night, I swear to you, Johanna, I watched him stalk something and he went up to the wall and he used his teeny little paw and he, he hit the wall and he held it and there was no bug there.

And I was like, this is what Johanna was talking about. He's plugging up this stuff. I was like, oh, you are. He also told me in our session, because he's been a rescue and I wanna bring this through, when we got him, he had part of his tail missing. There was a bump there where he had his skeletal part and Johanna was like, there's something with his tail.

Like I, there's part of it, [00:59:00] you know? And I was like, in no way does Johanna know that. No one knew that his tail had that. And she explained that he had cheated death twice and how his tail had got stuck under a wheel and the car was moving so fast that he almost, you know, could have died, although he got trapped in another room, which is a story for another day.

But it was really interesting that Johanna picked up on that. And then I could understand, oh, that's why he reacts in certain ways that he does. That's why he has that. And now I had language. But what was cool is he told Johanna that he chose to be domesticated after living on the streets for five years, and that he wanted to be told that he's a ninja, so we could honor that side of him.

Johanna Bloom: Uh, and I remember his, he was describing his two near death experiences and how the one in the shed was more existential for him. Like he got [01:00:00] locked away somewhere and he had a lot of time. It was like days to dread, like, what if I never get out of here? What if I die? And he did. I think someone opened a window or something and he got out.

But then the car one was like a quick thing and he, I don't think he experienced as much fear about that one. That one, he was more like. It was the cheated death. It was like, ooh, like I just, I just jumped right out of death's jaws kind like, he had a very different feeling about each experience and he communicated that really clearly.

He was fascinating to talk to 

Ashley Mondor: and when you talk about the shed, no one knows this again, that's why I'm so curious about Johanna and her gifts. But Fern refuses to allow any door to be closed. He will not let you be in the shower alone. He screams. The bedroom door can't be closed. He claws, he forces the door open.

And I was like, what? And Johanna's like, well, he, he almost died. This makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Yes. 

Johanna Bloom: Thanks from him. Um, do you wanna hear other quotes? Yes, please. [01:01:00] So these are some of my recent favorites. I had a dog say it was a rescue dog, and we were asking like, how old are you? And the dog said, I count my age in the years I have left.

And there are five or six now. Full body chills. I was like, okay, this raises a lot of questions. Like, how do you know? Like, and I, I don't think we were able to get into all of that. I think it was a shorter session, but that one was fascinating. Um, I had another animal tell their person, you have a spiritual awakening coming and like, give advice about how to, how to ground and be prepared for that.

Um, what that animal said was, keep your innocence like a dove. Don't let it make you paranoid. Like don't, basically don't be afraid. Like there's gonna be a lot of freaky new stuff for you and you can be clever about it. But, you know, hold on to that. Um, the animal [01:02:00] described their owner as being a very positive person, like a very optimistic person.

And the animal said, hold on to that. Like, that's gonna get you through. So that one was very cool. I've also had animals ac accuse quote unquote, they're people of avoiding spiritual awakenings. They'll say, you know, like, it seems to especially happen if someone moves across the country or like dives into a new relationship that everyone's kind of concerned about.

Um, a lot of the time, you know, the people will ask me, or the animal will even volunteer, like they're avoiding a spiritual awakening. Um, they have like some information coming through that's kind of freaking them out. They have some new experiences and they're sort of diving back into an old pattern in order to avoid it.

And the advice that always comes through from the animals is like, you know, free will, you gotta let 'em do what they're gonna do, but like their problems are gonna follow them and they're just gonna see the same pattern repeated over and over again until they start to rise above it and wake up. Like, that's the point is for them to become awake to the spiritual world and to their spiritual [01:03:00] gifts.

Ashley Mondor: That's so cool. Brilliant. 

Johanna Bloom: No, that one was really cool. Um. This one was fascinating. I think this one was from a, a Rainbow Bridge session. The old world is dying. It's actually already dead, like a snake with its head cut off. What you see in the news are just the death throws. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, I have full body chills.

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. Like this concept of, you know, like I've seen a lot of people talk about patriarchy as the old world. It's like all these old power systems that are kind of crumbling right now. And so the advice that this animal had was like, don't worry about it too much. Like it's, it's kind of already happened.

The, the new way, like the enlightenment basically is here. Yeah. 

Ashley Mondor: And the image of the snake because snake shed and also 2025 is the year of the earth snake, I think actually. Wow. Which is cool. 

Johanna Bloom: All those little, all those little [01:04:00] coincidences for us. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. 

Johanna Bloom: Um, this one was both funny and profound. It was a dog whose person was asking why he eats poop.

Like why he, eats poop on the beach, he said, seagulls are amazing. They always tease me like, look at the big fat dog who can't survive on his own. Um, the dog said they're teasing means that they like me though. I eat their poop to learn more about them. They always know when a storm is coming. Um, I've had a lot of dogs say that about eating poop.

That it, it tells them a lot about the animal and the health and the life circumstances, but this part was, this next part was especially profound. Watch the seagulls with me because they always know when a storm is coming, if they start acting weird, watch out. And I got some images of like, uh, some kind of storm that comes over the water, like some kind of tsunami or hurricane or some, you know, some kind of natural [01:05:00] disaster that the dog was concerned about.

I was like, is that common in your area? And they were like, no. Like, not while we've lived here. And I was like, okay, well your dog wants you to watch the seagulls. So that's, you know, advice for anybody who lives near the ocean. 

Ashley Mondor: And you're saying connect more with nature and you'll be given what you need.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. 

Johanna Bloom: Um, I had one from a cat a little while ago. I like to observe bugs, especially the ones that make tunnels under the rocks and shoe nests in the wood. I watch them energetically at building their secret cities. What

yeah. Um, I got to do a capuchin monkey recently. Uh, and that was really fascinating.

The monkey showed me a lot of images of smiling, and I had to confirm with the, the owner, like, does that mean he's happy? Because I've, I've heard diff like their smiles mean different things than ours. But she said in this case, yeah, he smiles when he is happy. He knows how to signal that to people. Um, [01:06:00] I got a lot of smiling while he was eating fruit.

Um, he really liked eating his fruit. He showed me an image of eating with a fork and I was like, does your monkey eat with a fork? And she was like, yep. He doesn't like getting his hands dirty. Um, and he, his main takeaway was he wanted his person to worry less because he was like, I'm super happy she's doing a good job.

Like, tell her she's doing enough. 

Ashley Mondor: Sometimes we just really need to hear that, you know? 

Johanna Bloom: Yeah, yeah, we do. Um, the last couple I had written down were roasts from cats that I thought were really funny. Um, you stink, but that's okay. Humans are happier when they've been outside getting smelly. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, true, true. 

Johanna Bloom: The other one, the cat showed me this image of like the hair on top of her head and how it's just a little patch, and the cat sees like the whole rest of us as just like gleaming nakedness, except for like the little wiggles above our [01:07:00] eyes.

And the cat was like, what is even the point? Like if, if you're gonna have hair at all, like, like why? Like why have these little patches? And he said, you guys are ugly. Like straight up. Like, you just, you just look really bad. He just said, um, that's okay though. Like he, he softened it a little bit. It was like, you know.

We still love you and everything, but y'all are ugly. Was the, was the takeaway from that one? 

Ashley Mondor: I remember you had, uh, I think a dog or a cat, sorry, I can't remember, but they said, I like when my owner wears a hoodie and puts the hoodie over and then puts the tie so it's around their face because they're like, oh, they need to protect their naked face.

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. That one was about a dog who'd been going for some walks in the cold. It was like over the winter and uh, I guess I got an image of the owner with like, yeah, the hoodie scrunched. So you could like just see his nose basically, like just his nose and his eyes and the dog thinking [01:08:00] that that was funny.

Like, oh yeah, I mean, you guys don't have any hair, so you'd have to do that. Yes. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, brilliant. This has been so fun, Johanna. Thank you so much. I have, oh, I have one more question for you after this one, but outside of having people work with you on one-on-one sessions or to book in to get pet portraits and things like that, is there anything that you're working on right now that you're really excited about?

Johanna Bloom: Uh, yes. I'm writing a book, so I've got, you know, I take quotes from each of my sessions after I'm done with each one. I spend a little time and I, I journal like the takeaways, so I don't forget them, but it is turned into so many quotes that I can, I can't keep up with them anymore either. I can't possibly post them all on social media.

So now it's gonna be a book and it's actually almost done. I went through the last few months and compiled all my different journals, and I actually have like enough. Words to make a significant book. Um, so that one's in the, in the works. I am working [01:09:00] with a publishing company. I don't know the exact timeline for everything, but it will be announced on my social media and my website when it's ready to go.

It's just like quotes just like this, just like we've been talking about, just organized by species. I've got horses, dogs, cats, wild animals, exotics, across the rainbow bridge, common requests, wild horses. Like, you know, I've got like a little different section for each thing. 

Ashley Mondor: Yes. I'm so excited. Oh my God.

I'm like, I'm dreaming about it. Um, and my last question is a question that I ask every single guest. So if you feel grounded and you feel present, I'd love to know what is alive in your heart today? 

Johanna Bloom: Oh, that's a great question. Let me think about that for a second.

I would like everyone to know that I. This ability that I have to communicate with animals is not exclusive to me. Animals have described it as our first language. Like, children can connect with animals very [01:10:00] easily. If, um, my clients have kids, sometimes the kids' energy pops up in my channels.

Like they're just there, like listening. Even really young kids, even kids. Um, so this is something that we have been disconnected from. It's not something that is like magic or that you have to have, you know, some kind of crazy animal experience to be able to do. Like all of us have the ability to talk energetically, to connect energetically with each other, with animals.

I specialize in animals, obviously, but there are so many different applications for channeling, um, and for energy work and connecting with nature. So I just want you to know you can, you can learn how to do this. You can rediscover it. You knew how to do it once as a little kid. We were just all conditioned socially to believe that like only what we hear and and see in the physical world is real.

And our brains take charge and we're, we're pushed into this culture of like hustle and busyness, which keeps us disconnected from our ability to energetically connect. Um, so that is what I would like you to know. I can [01:11:00] do it. And so could you. 

Ashley Mondor: I love that. Johanna, thank you so much for being willing to share your wisdom and the wisdom from the clients that you've worked with and for writing a book so that I can have it, because I'm very excited about that.

And also just the work that you do is so profound and so silly and so multidimensional and dynamic, and I implore anyone, if you feel called to Johanna's energy, I swear to you, book in a session. It will be life changing. And please for the love of God, record it so that you can come back to it.

Because if I did not have that, I would not have specific things about my pet's health, like wise things that I had never even thought of in my freaking life before. Please connect with Johanna on her social. I'll put it in the show notes. Thank you so much for being with me, and I'm so excited for what you're creating and what's coming next.

And for everyone who gets the joy and the pleasure of working with your magic. 

Johanna Bloom: Thank you for having me. This was a privilege. I love being interviewed [01:12:00] by you. I love your podcast. And I can't wait to do, I mean, we get to be writers together now, so I can't wait to do more of that. Yeah. 

Ashley Mondor: Thank you, Johanna. I hope you have a beautiful day.

Johanna Bloom: You too.